Palazzo Madama – Civic Museum of Ancient Art

Turin's civic museum of ancient art holds the collection of painted and gold-etched glass assembled in London by the diplomat Emanuele Taparelli d'Azeglio and donated to the city in 1890: some two hundred works spanning Roman times to the eighteenth century, considered the richest in Italy and among the most important in Europe. Alongside it are Murano glass from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century, archaeological glass from the palace excavations, and stained glass from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, brought together in the themed «Glass Room».

What to see

• The d'Azeglio collection: ~200 painted and gold-etched glasses
• Murano glass from the Renaissance to the 19th century
• The «Glass Room» and medieval stained glass

Visit the official website

Other museums in Piedmont

• «Cav. G. Avena» Museum Complex · Chiusa di Pesio, Cuneo