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Civic Museum Luigi Bailo

From Abbot Bailo's vocation for collecting to the artistic heritage that is the pride of the city: the Casa dell'Arte del '900 opens its doors, showing all the wonder of a century of profound changes and new languages, to relive together another a story made of intense glances, deep feelings and restless memories.

The Civic Museum "Luigi Bailo" is a museum of Treviso, named after the founder and first director of the Civic Museums of Treviso, Abbot Luigi Bailo, and today dedicated to art collections from Impressionism to the Avant-garde.

The Bailo Museum is the oldest of the current civic museums: the others are the Ca' da Noal - Ca' Robegan complex, where temporary exhibitions are held, and the Santa Caterina complex, which houses the archaeological collections, the collections of medieval and modern art, and other temporary exhibitions.

The oldest of Treviso's current civic museums is also the right homage to Abbot Luigi Bailo's extraordinary passion for collecting, which gave rise to the city's precious artistic, cultural and museum heritage.
Like the Santa Caterina Museum, the Bailo Museum also preserves the lights and atmosphere of the ancient convent of medieval origin, refounded in the 16th century. from the Gesuati Fathers of S. Girolamo and passed to the Discalced Carmelites in 1681. Atmospheres and traces of the ancient architecture also survive in the two sober cloisters overlooking the ancient volume of the Chiesa degli Scalzi, rebuilt after 1866 to house the Municipal Library.

A façade completely rethought in its elegant rigor, in dialogue with the urban fabric that welcomes it, invites us to enter and get involved, leading us to learn about its many stories and important protagonists.
Today, the splendid Galleria del Novecento, with around 340 works from the second half of the nineteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century, welcomes the visitor with the masterpieces of the great Treviso artist Arturo Martini (Treviso 1889 – Milan 1947), offering an extraordinary uniqueness of his poetics.

Map: Civic Museum Luigi Bailo