Viareggio Museums

The museum is located near to Lucca in Viareggio town. The construction was completed in 1900 but in 1930 the first opera was presented, “Boheme”. Collections within the house include furniture, documents, stage paintings, portraits and antiques.

The villa has a traditional cubical structure with a symmetrical composition and clearly defined functional partitions: an ornamental bow window in glass and iron connects the entrance of the Villa with the surrounding garden.
Hours: Tuesday – Sunday 10:00am – 12:30pm and 2:30pm – 17:30pm.

Museum in Villa Puccini, Viareggio

The “Museo del Carnevale” is located in the new complex of the “Citadella del Carnavale”, designed by the architect Francesco Tomassi. It is divided into several sections that show the “mask-making” process: from preliminary design to the final piece created with cast paper(“papier-mâché”).

This museum has an exhibition of floats, masks, carnival postcards and other memorabilia related to carnival. The admission is free and currently open Saturday and Sunday afternoons. These items of excellent shape and form are made with this technique, which is also used in various fields to create furnishings, scenery for theatres and opera houses, and decorative objects. The items on display can be brought to life with levers and ropes, and visitors can see the simple and creative tools used by artisans to move puppets.

Most of work on display are made of clay and cast paper, the float-makers lampoon bad habits and faults of contemporary society through modelled heads, figures in the round, animals among other items, all of them testifying the skills of they.

This building hosts the Archaeological Museum of Alberto Carlo Blanc, the Pinacoteca of Lorenzo Viani and the Museo degli Stumenti Musicali Giovannu Ciuffreda. These municipal museums of Villa Paolina are housed in one of the most remarkable buildings in town. It was built around 1822 on a project of Giovanni Lazzarini after the residence was bequeathed to Paolina’s sister, Carolina Murat. The building served to different purposes: first a boarding school, then a comprehensive, it was seriously damaged during WWII and left to decay. It was repairs since 1980.
Museum Blanc: The Archaeological Museum Blanc encloses a series of ancient findings from all Versilia and was opened in 1986.

Museums in Villa Paolina, Viareggio

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