Museums in the Dolomites
Museums & Cultural Centres
This selection groups museums, historic villas and archaeological sites across the Dolomites region. Highlights include Renaissance frescoes at Villa Barbaro (Villa di Maser) and the Gypsoteca Canova’s plaster casts of Antonio Canova; Messner Mountain Museum’s alpine cultural exhibits; fossil displays of the extinct Ursus ladinicus; civic collections housed in Belluno’s Palazzo Fulcis; and several archaeological parks and parish museums preserving local prehistoric and medieval finds.
Villa Barbaro
Villa Barbaro, also known as the Villa di Maser, is a large villa at Maser in the Veneto region of northern Italy.
Museum Gherdëina
The Gherdëina Local Heritage Museum was opened in the Cësa di Ladins in Urtijëi, in northernmost Italy, in 1960.
Musei Civici di Belluno Palazzo Fulcis
City museum housed in the 17th‑century Palazzo Fulcis in Belluno, exhibiting local paintings, archaeological finds and civic archives.
Gypsoteca Canova
Gallery preserving original plaster casts and preparatory models by Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova.
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