Revoltella Museum in Trieste

The Revoltella Museum is the civic modern and contemporary art gallery. The baron Pasquale Revoltella, an interesting personality of great importance in Trieste of the 19th century, built his palace in the mid 19th century, in the historic centre, which was used both as a home as well as a place for the exhibition of his art collections.  In 1872 the Gallery of modern art was founded and upon his death left to the citizens. Afterwards the city purchased Brunner palace, and then Basevi palace, next to each other, and after a long time and numerous controversies, in 1963 it was trusted to the famous architect Carlo Scarpa to restructure and connect them to host the museum collections, by now notably grown. This undertaking of the enlargement of the Museum, among changing fortunes and a cycle of designers, was concluded in 1992. Think however: in five years, from 1853 to 1858 Palazzo Revoltella was constructed, magnificently decorated and furnished, in our days it took twenty-nine to manage to restructure it anew. Having said this the visit to the Gallery is interesting, both on the subject of costumes, as you see in its entirety a noble Palace from the 19th century, and for the important collection of painters and sculptors from Trieste, artists of notable value but often more known in Mid-Europe than in Italy. Despite the long work even the new layout is nice and from above on the terrace of the Museum there is a beautiful view of the city.