Museo d'arte contemporanea Villa Croce
The Museo d'arte contemporanea Villa Croce opens this city’s modern vision onto a stately villa with a long, layered past. The villa, remodeled in the neoclassical style in the 19th century for Giovanni Giacomo Croce, sits on grounds that belonged to the Spinola family in the 17th century, and it was donated to Genoa in 1951 to become a museum. Since opening in 1985, Villa Croce has housed a permanent collection of Italian and international contemporary art, assembled by Maria Cernuschi Ghiringhelli, the wife of painter and collector Gino Ghiringhelli. The building sits in the Carignano quarter, above the sea with views toward the Fiera di Genova exhibition center, and is surrounded by a public park. …
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