The Palazzo Pistilli Museum, the first historical-artistic museum in Campobasso, was born thanks to the foresight and generosity of a family with a great tradition of bourgeois collecting, the Eliseo-Praitano family. Michele Praitano's art collection, created in over fifty years of passionate research in Italy and abroad, and subsequently donated to the State, represents the most consistent nucleus. Each work contains not only the story of its creation and the reflection of an era, and its cultural context, but also the history of the acquisition by this passionate collector: the encounters and friendship with artists, antique dealers and other characters; the artistic choices concentrated above all on nineteenth-twentieth century Neapolitan painting inspired by realism, impressionism and classicism. The approximately 160 works on display cover a period of approximately three hundred years, from the Neapolitan seventeenth century to a substantial nucleus of works by artists from Molise. The collection is spread over two floors and six rooms, including a multimedia room in which further works by artists Molise present in the museum are illustrated to the visitor.