The Contemporary Art Museum of Villa Croce was established in 1985 in the nineteenth-century Villa Croce in Genoa Carignano, inside one of the most famous city parks.
It has a patrimony of 5,000 works, including the Maria Cernuschi Ghiringhelli collection of abstract art, with over 200 works by some of the most important Italian and foreign artists of the 20th century such as Licini, Magnelli, Munari, Fontana, Manzoni, Melotti; Arp, Sonia Delaunay, Jasper Johns, a vast documentation on Genoese and Ligurian artistic research from the Second World War to today, a section dedicated to Italian and foreign contemporary artists (Patterson, Pozzi, Rotella, Vautier) and to emerging artists who have exhibited at the museum or created site-specific works for the museum.
Laboratory of contemporary languages, the museum creates and hosts temporary exhibitions and initiatives dedicated to poetry, cinema, literature and music.
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Tickets: full price €5; reduced € 3 (disabled, over 65 EU citizens, Ducale Card holders). Museum card. Free admission for all EU citizens from 0 to 18 years, disabled companions, Sundays for residents of the Municipality of Genoa, national tourist guides with card, teachers and students of the faculties of architecture, cultural heritage, literature and philosophy, academies of beauty arts from the University of Genoa, education sciences and degree courses in literature or literary subjects with an archaeological or historical-artistic focus, ICOM members, teachers with a school card. Groups or groups of students from EU public and private schools, by reservation.
