Museums in Città di Castello

Municipal Gallery It's the second most important Gallery in Umbria. In the Gallery we can find masterpieces of Signorelli, Della Robbia, Ghirlandaio and Raffaello too. Cathedral Diocese Museum Here we've got a superb " Madonna col Bambino e San Giovannino " by Pinturicchio, the so called " Pastorale " (a Tuscany goldsmith's art) and " Tesoro di Canoscio " Civic Collection It show an impressive collection of fossils of the period between the Palaeozoic to Cainozoic, remains of tools from the Palaeolithic era, arrow tips and jewellery items of Neolithic era and ornaments from the Iron age. Printing Museum That working printing museum shows he printing business activity made with the old nineteenth century wood equipment, such as hand made desk, cylindrical printing machinery. Centre of Documentation Craft Workshops and popular traditions The aim of the Museum is to preserve tools, popular traditions and crafts of the local area, to make people understand the kind of life of time past. Burri Collection It's divided between Albizzini Palace and the Ex tobacco Dryers Albizzini Palace Alberto Burri, one of the most appreciated artist of 1900, decided to donate to the town his Collection: they goes from paintings to sculpture, from set designs to graphic design. Ex Seccatoi Usati inizialmente per l'essiccazione del tabacco e poi dimessi; l'uso di uno di essi venne concesso al Burri, che lo utilizzò per le sue creazioni pittoriche fino al 1993. The Ex Tobacco Dryers At the beginning they were used as tobacco dryers. Burri gained free use of one of them, and he used it to product his painting.