Raccolte Frugone has been based in Nervi since 1993, in the eighteenth-century Villa Grimaldi Fassio , purchased by the Municipality of Genoa in 1979.

The important nineteenth-twentieth century art collections of the Frugone brothers - from whom the collections take their name - include paintings, sculptures and drawings by Italian and foreign artists active between the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. Among the artists represented are: Bistolfi, Fontanesi, Mancini, Messina, Segantini, Signorini, Boldini, Rubino, Milesi, Tito, Michetti and Sorolla y Bastida, Moses Bianchi, Silvestro Lega, Guglielmo Ciardi, Luigi Conconi, Tranquillo Cremona, Lorenzo Delleani , Giuseppe De Nittis, Giovanni Fattori, Antonio Fontanesi, Emilio Gola, Giacomo Grosso, Francesco Paolo Michetti, Alessandro Milesi, Richard Miller, Giuseppe and Filippo Palizzi, Edoardo Rubino, Telemaco Signorini, Paolo Troubetzkoy.