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D'Albertis Castle - Museum of World Cultures - Museum of Peoples' Music

The D'Albertis castle is a historic residence in Genoa, home to the Museum of World Cultures and the Museum of Peoples' Music.

Built in 1886 on an ancient bastion of the fourteenth-century walls by sea captain Enrico Alberto D'Albertis, the castle is now one of the most popular house-museums in the Ligurian capital.

Located on the hill of Montegalletto (or Monte Galletto) in the Castelletto district, like the Mackenzie castle, it dominates the city of Genoa overlooking the Ligurian Sea with an open view. The reporter of the Supplement wrote to the newspaper "Il Caffaro" on May 1, 1892.

The castle can be reached from Piazza Acquaverde-via Balbi (Piazza Principe railway station) with the Castello d'Albertis-Montegalletto lift, or with the AMT bus lines n. 36, 39 and 40.

A particular service favors transport and visits to the museum by disabled people. By car it can be reached for those coming from the motorways by taking the Genova-Ovest exit.

The Museum of World Cultures in Castello D’Albertis offers a tour in the home of Captain Enrico Alberto D’Albertis, its creator.

Traveling by sea and land between the 1800s and 1900s, the Captain has enclosed his world in his home in a romantic setting straddling "chambers of wonders" and colonial trophies.

His castle testifies to the fascination that the distant worlds he visited have exercised on his spirit, imbued with "Genoese" and love for the sea and as much curiosity towards the unknown and the attempted.

But not only: with the entrance into the sixteenth-century bastion, on which the castle was built, a second tour opens up in which the archaeological and ethnographic material is revealed through dialogue and exchange with the populations from which it comes, to give voice to multiple perspectives and relativize our certainties.

Castello D’Albertis is not only the home of Captain D’Albertis, but our own home, the home of our impulses and fascinations, of our fears and explorations, of the questions that mark our relationship with the world.

The visit is one-way and circular.

Map: D'Albertis Castle - Museum of World Cultures - Museum of Peoples' Music