The archaeological collection of the Banca di Romagna is located along an itinerary known as “Faenza in Roman times: traces of public life”, providing an interesting glimpse of civilization in Faenza during Roman times.
The museum offers an anthological itinerary of the works of Zauli, one of the most important ceramic sculptors of the twentieth-century, from the early 50’s to the 90’s. A visit to the Carlo Zauli Museum gives the visitor a chance of getting to know Faenza and to journey through the history of ceramics.
The International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza boasts a collection of ceramics amongst the most complete and important of anywhere in the world; in the halls of the museum the visitor can discover the main producing countries of ceramics in an itinerary that spreads through the various historical periods, from Ancient times to the present day.
The museum is housed in the building which was home to Raffaele Bendandi, who was from Faenza and who was an expert on seismology. In the building there is a collection of documents regarding seismological events, a library and a Seismological Observatory.
This is undoubtedly the most important and complete natural-science museum in the Romagna region and is located in a modern building, the “Domenico Malmerendi” centre, purposely built inside an area of greenery laid out as a botanical garden.
The museum of sacred art houses works from between the XIV and XIX centuries, underlining the religious and cultural path of the life of the Dioceses, from Medieval times until the present day.
Faenza’s Municipal Art Gallery is the town’s most ancient museum. It houses a rich collection of works, especially paintings, divided into two sections; the Antique Hall, which represents a wide collection of local art from Roman times to the end of the XVIII century, and the Modern Art Hall with works from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, grouping together stylistic schools and trends.
Palazzo Milzetti is the richest and the most complete example of that elegant architectonical and decorative civilization that blossomed in Faenza during the neoclassical age, which made it a small capital of good taste. Count Nicola Milzetti gave the go-ahead for construction works in 1792, using the services of the architect Giuseppe Pistocchi from Faenza. His son Francesco carried on with the works assigning them to the architect Giovanni Antonio Antolini from Castel Bolognese and to the painter FeliceGiani, who performed the beautiful decorations with the help of the members of his workshop by working in the palace until 1805.
The museum, which is run by the Torricelliana Society of Science and Literature of Faenza, is a collection of relics and papers of Evangelista Torricelli, a distinguished physicist, mathematician and scholar of geometry, a student of and successor to Galileo Galilei, famous, above all, for having invented the mercury barometer.
