About
Palazzo Doria Tursi stands at Via Garibaldi 9 in Genoa, on Liguria's coast in northern Italy. It is also known as Tursi Palace, and it is the largest of the palaces lining Via Garibaldi. Today the building serves two purposes at once: it is the seat of Genoa's town hall, and it is open as a museum.
What you can see
The palace houses two main attractions for visitors:
- Paganini's violin, one of the best-known instruments associated with the Genoese musician Niccolò Paganini.
- Decorative arts collections, displayed through the rooms of the palace.
What kind of visit it makes
A visit suits anyone with an interest in music, or in the decorative arts and the setting of a working civic building. Because the palace is still Genoa's town hall, you move through a building that carries out public business as well as housing its collections, which gives the visit a different character from a purely dedicated museum.
Give yourself time to walk the length of Via Garibaldi, the street on which the palace stands. Its neighbouring palaces make it one of the more striking urban streets in the city, and the palace is a natural place to start or end a walk along it.
For current opening times, admission details or to check on visits, you can call the palace on +39 010 5574000 before you go.
