Villa Durazzo Pallavicini - Ligurian Archeology Museum

The Villa Durazzo Pallavicini is a historic noble residence of the municipality of Genoa.

It is located in Pegli, a residential area in the western part of the city.

The building, now owned by the municipality of Genoa, is home to the Ligurian Archeology Museum.

The museum was inaugurated in 1936, but during the Second World War the collections were transferred to the abbey of Tiglieto.

The museum was reopened in 1953, with Luigi Bernabò Brea collaborating with Cardini himself at this stage.

Created an exhibition that documents the life, occupations and economy of the peoples who inhabited Liguria between a hundred thousand years ago and the end of the Roman Empire and the climatic changes that occurred in this period, with finds from the caves of the Riviera di Ponente (Balzi Rossi, Toirano caves, Finalese caves), tombs of Ligurian warriors from the Iron Age and the funerary objects of the pre-Roman necropolis of Genoa.

Alongside these are also exhibited testimonies of Ligurian cities in Roman times, Egyptian antiquities from the Albertis collection and a collection of ancient vases donated to the city by Prince Oddone of Savoy.

It is equipped with a park of almost 10 hectares, among the major historic gardens in Europe, including the botanical garden named after the noblewoman Clelia Durazzo.

The entrance to the Durazzo Pallavicini villa complex is located next to the Genoa-Pegli railway station.

Villa and park in its present form date back to the mid-nineteenth century, but the complex has its origins in an eighteenth-century mansion of the Grimaldi family.

In addition to the Grimaldis, two other important families of that time were also involved in the property, the Durazzo and the Pallavicini, all related to one another.

Map: Villa Durazzo Pallavicini - Ligurian Archeology Museum