Basilio Cascella Civic Museum

The Basilio Cascella Civic Museum is an Italian art gallery based in Pescara, in the Porta Nuova district.

The museum is housed in the former lithographic factory established at the end of the nineteenth century by the painter Basilio Cascella.

The building, for half a century a center of artistic production and a meeting place for intellectuals such as Gabriele D'Annunzio, Luigi Pirandello and Giovanni Pascoli, was donated in 1966 to the Municipality of Pescara by the Cascella heirs.

Thanks to the initiative of Giuseppe Quieti, in 1975 the structure was used as a civic museum dedicated to the Cascella dynasty of artists.

The Pinacoteca houses a collection of about 600 works of painting, sculpture, ceramics and graphics, created between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by Basilio Cascella and his descendants, including his sons Tommaso and Michele, and by his nephews Andrea Cascella and Pietro.

Since 2017 the museum has been managed by the Genti d'Abruzzo Foundation.

Map: Basilio Cascella Civic Museum