CAMeC was founded with the intention of preserving, exhibiting, enhancing and enhancing the civic collections of contemporary art, as well as creating exhibitions and exhibitions dedicated to authors and movements of the twentieth century.

The collection comprises over one thousand two hundred works referable to the most important movements of the historical avant-gardes of the twentieth century: from Expressionism and the Bauhaus, ending with Arte Povera, Pop, Land, Fluxus, Body Art and Transavanguardia.

Piazza Cesare Battisti, 1 – 19121 La Spezia (SP)

Phone: 0187/734593

Fax: 0187/256773

E-mail: camec@comune.sp.it

Site: www.spezianet.it

The Museum is located next to the main door of the military naval base of La Spezia and exhibits, over an area of ​​over 3000 square meters, including an internal garden, thousands of unique artifacts that relive to the visitor the succession of events in the naval history , from the origins of navigation to our days. Among its main collections the visitor can admire: - a precious collection of polene; - models of ships and sailboats of all ages; - legendary naval vessels ("pig", M.T.M. explosive boat); - a vast collection of weapons with precious specimens; - naval cannons that have never before been shown to the public; - the transceiver station used in 1897 in La Spezia by Guglielmo Marconi in his first experiments. An interesting library with valuable historical volumes and original documents, including Giuseppe Garibaldi's matriculation sheet, is also an integral part of the Museum itself.

Viale Amendola 1 – 19125 La Spezia (SP)

Phone: 0187/784693; 0187/784836

Fax: 0187/784850

E-mail: mtnsp@marina.difesa.it

Site: www.marina.difesa.it/laspezia/museo.asp

The Castle of San Giorgio contains precious archaeological civic collections in which the splendid statues of the Lunigian statues are highlighted, symbol of the sacred anthropomorphic megalithism of the Copper / Bronze Age and of iron, which constitute one of the most relevant and tangible documentary signs of the population of Lunigiana itself. The section of the Roman era is made up of a rich nucleus of materials coming mainly from the colony of Luni, among which marble artefacts stand out as evidence of the high technical level reached in the processing of marble by local workshops.

Via XXVII Marzo SNC – 19121 La Spezia (SP)

Phone: 0187/751142

Fax: 0187/751142

E-mail: segreteriasangiorgio@laspeziacultura.it

Site: www.turismocultura.spezianet.it

The "Amedeo Lia" Civic Museum was founded thanks to the important donation of Amedeo Lia and her family to the Municipality of La Spezia. The collection, which is located in the former convent of San Francesco di Paola, includes about 1200 works, from the classical era up to the eighteenth century.

In the splendid gallery that occupies almost the entire first level and in the collections of the second level stand paintings from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century, with tables by Pietro Lorenzetti, Lippo di Benivieni, Paolo di Giovanni Fei, Antonio Vivarini, paintings by Tiziano, Tintoretto, Veronese , Bellotto, Canaletto. The single section of the portraits - including the self-portrait of Pontormo, portraits of Titian, Gentile Bellini and Sebastiano del Piombo - form the Caravaggesque, Venetian art, Flemish and Italian still lifes. Also worth mentioning are the precious Italian and foreign miniatures from the 13th to the 16th century. The furnishings include precious glass and painted glass, majolica, bronzes, wooden and rock crystal artefacts, ivories and jewelery of medieval sacred art, enamels, expression of the taste and culture of the period in Italy and Europe. The museum includes special paths dedicated to the disabled.

Via del Prione, 234 – 19121 La Spezia (SP)

Phone: 0187/731100

Fax: 0187/731408

E-mail: museolia@comune.sp.IT

Site: www.spezianet.it

The Seal Museum hosts the collection of seals that the Capellini spouses have donated to the Municipality of La Spezia, offering visitors the most complete collection of explosives that has ever been reunited. In fact, it consists of about one thousand five hundred matrices and sealings, dating back to the fourth millennium BC. up to the present day. The seals come from Mesopotamia, Egypt, pre-Columbian America, China, Japan and from areas of Islamic influence. The most representative section is made up of European and North American material. The itinerary is organized according to a chronological and geographical order starting from the examples of the IV millennium BC, of ​​Egypt and then of the Roman imperial age. The period between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is the most important for the production of seals. Many are those created by French masters, among which are the Art Nouveau crystal and glass made by René Lalique, not counting the ecclesiastical seals from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century. In the second room are exposed gold seals including the works of the jeweler of the tsars, Fabergé. Finally, in the third room are those produced in the East from the fourth century BC. to the contemporaneity.

Via del Prione, 236 – 19121 La Spezia (SP)

Phone: 0187/778544

Fax: 0187/257629

Email: museodelsigillo@laspeziacultura.it

Site: www.laspeziacultura.it

The Ethnographic Museum, named after the ethnographer, naturalist, musician Giovanni Podenzana (1864-1943), is housed in the new headquarters of the fifteenth-century oratory of San Bernardino da Siena, in the historic center of La Spezia. The over 3500 ethno-anthropological objects collected between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century concern the traditions and customs of the Lunigiana communities (from the 18th to the 20th century) and the native cultures of Oceania, New Guinea, the Americas, China, Japan and Africa (19th century). The collection, considered one of the most important in Italy by type and variety of materials, today offers the public a brief but documented vision of the rural society of the historic Lunigiana, its oral traditions, the magic-protective rituals and its clothing, in-depth through an important section dedicated to costumes and weaving to the loom.

The Oratory was erected in 1445 near the "Porta di Genova", which from the most ancient nucleus of La Spezia led to the high Val di Vara and Genoa, and included elements that are no longer visible, including a 25-meter tower that it was demolished in 1767. Since 1812, no longer used for worship, it underwent numerous, successive changes dictated by the different uses: the seat of the Municipal Council and seat of the Public Administration of La Spezia. An important restoration was promoted for the Year of Jubilee, in 2000, in order to collect the collections of sacred art from the Diocesan Museum of La Spezia. Since 2005 it hosts and exhibits to the public also part of the collections of the historic city Ethnographic Museum.

Via del Prione 156 – 19122 La Spezia (SP)

Phone: 0187/258570

Fax: 0187/257426

E-mail: museo.etnografico@laspeziacultura.it

Site: www.laspeziacultura.it

The Diocesan Museum is housed in the ancient Oratory of St. Bernardino, located in the historic center of La Spezia, near the Lia Museum and other city museums. First of all, the set-up aims to offer a path on the memory threads of places and territories through the use of panels and the display of art objects; the city of La Spezia and its surroundings, in fact, were strongly influenced by the construction of the military Arsenal, in the nineteenth century, which radically changed the urban appearance incorporating also ancient churches and convents. Paintings, sculptures, textiles, goldsmiths, with precious or symbolically pregnant objects and works of absolute importance including those of the Carpenino or those of Carlo Braccesco, then widen the view on the artistic heritage of the various areas of the diocese, in particular of the Cinque Terre , of the Val di Vara, of Portovenere.

Via del Prione, 156 – 19122 La Spezia (SP)

Phone: 0187258570

Fax: 0187257426

E-mail: museosp@diocesilaspezia.it

Site: www.diocesilaspezia.it