Museo d'arte contemporanea Villa Croce
The Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art stands in Genoa as a modern arts hub housed in a historic villa with a sea-facing park, a site donated to the city by the Croce family in 1951. The building itself began as a 17th-century villa of the Spinola family and was remodeled in neoclassical style in the 19th century for Giovanni Giacomo Croce, then transformed into a museum that opened in 1985. The collection spans Italian and international contemporary art and is built around more than 3,000 works, assembled by Maria Cernuschi Ghiringhelli, wife of the noted painter and collector Gino Ghiringhelli. Since 2012, governance has blended public and private funding, with collaboration between the Municipality of Genoa, the Palazzo Ducale Foundation, and private supporters. …
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