About us

The driving force behind the Polo Museale Città di Teramo (Teramo City Museum Centre) is the Pinacoteca Civica (Civic Art Gallery) with its collection of works of art, a living testimony of a long process of musealisation that began in 1868 "with the idea of collecting paintings from the Teramo area" to arrive, today, at the current layout intervention that allows us to retrace, as if scrolling through the pages of an anthology, the golden centuries of Teramo art.

The project to recover the historical memory of Teramo's cultural heritage reached a further stage in 1997 with the creation of the important “F. Savini' Archaeological Museum”, which was open to the public until 2016, when it was closed, due to the extensive damage caused by the earthquakes to the elegant historic building in which it was housed. Through archaeological evidence and reconstructions of local environments and monuments, it offered an exciting reading of the territory from prehistory to the Renaissance, thanks to the excavations and studies conducted in the archaeological areas of the city and surrounding zones.

Over time, the city's museum itinerary has been enriched by other cultural venues such as L'ARCA, a workshop for contemporary arts, Della Monica Castle, the home of Teramo artist Gennaro Della Monica, an architect, sculptor and painter who lived at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the various exhibition venues used for conferences, conventions, seminars, exhibitions, book presentations and cultural projects.

In all these locations, the Polo Museale Città di Teramo fulfils its functions through the management of municipal museums and cultural sites in a system logic in adherence to the principles expressed by the "Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape", it is configured as an instrument for the coordinated management of museums and cultural sites in order to protect and enhance the cultural heritage, ensuring its proper conservation, and guaranteeing its public and participatory use.

The Polo Museale takes care of and promotes the research, acquisition, inventorying, cataloguing, conservation and ordering of the heritage. It guarantees the inalienability of the collections, except in exceptional cases that justify the transfer of the assets in full compliance with the protection regulations in force; the integrity of all the assets in consignment and under its own responsibility, ensuring the valorisation, promotion, diffusion and increase of the heritage through purchases, deposits, bequests, donations, inventorying and cataloguing of the assets, as well as photographic documentation.

The Polo Museale also guarantees the use of the possessed and guarded assets through permanent exhibition, providing for the rotation of the works in storage and consultation; the planning, design and realisation of exhibitions, meetings, seminars, conventions and cultural events in general, also in collaboration with other public or private entities.

The Polo Museale is responsible for educational, popular and didactic activities, for the production of scientific and popular publications and for ensuring collaboration with the sectors of the municipal administration in the conservation of the municipality's cultural assets, in agreement with the bodies and offices responsible for protection.

The Polo Museale establishes collaborative relationships with public and private entities and bodies, aimed at the conception and implementation of projects for the study, research and valorisation of cultural heritage; with schools of every order and grade to promote, in synergy with voluntary associations, agreements aimed at the promotion and enjoyment of cultural heritage.

The Polo Museale Città di Teramo comprises the following municipal sites: 

• Civic Art Gallery;
• Civic Archaeological Museum 'F. Savini'; 
• Roman Theatre archaeological site; 
• Largo Sant'Anna archaeological site; 
• Largo Madonna delle Grazie archaeological site; 
• Madonna della Cona archaeological site; 
• L'ARCA, Largo San Matteo; 
• Piazza Garibaldi Hypogeum; 
• Exhibition Hall “N. Palma”; 
• Della Monica Castle