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The Morpurgo Museum is located in the historic center of the city of Trieste and is housed in the apartment of the wealthy Morpurgo bourgeois family. The Museum is housed on the second floor of the building designed by the architect Giovanni Berlam in 1875. In 1943 the collector Mario Morpurgo de Nilma donated the Villa and its collection to the Municipality of Trieste. The building is one of the most luxurious and bourgeois examples of princely style in the city. The facades decorated with simple folders and shelves are developed on four floors and are moved by four balconies. The interiors are all original and represent different historical styles in the taste of the late nineteenth century. In the Morpurgo house, each living room is characterized by a different style and color: the empire one combined with red, that of the Tuscan Renaissance enriched by the Neorococo with shades of brown, that of romanticism with ebonized wood, the Louis Philippe one with gold and red , that of the Venetian eighteenth century with ivory lacquers and soft pastel blues, the neo Boulle with ebony, gold and variegated insertions of red. The collection exhibited in the museum preserves eighteenth-century majolica, Japanese pottery, tableware in French Pillivuit porcelain with monogram, Bohemian glass, woodcuts and engravings. In particular, the woodcuts by Jacques Callot, Giandomenico Tiepolo and Francesco Bartolozzi are of great value. A large number of Japanese woodcuts range from the eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. The collection consists of sixty paintings and drawings by the circle of Luca Giordano, Girolamo Induno, Emma Ciardi, Paul Baudry, Natale Schiavoni and many others.

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Via Matteo Renato Imbriani, 5
34122 Trieste

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