Civic Museum Sartorio

The museum is housed in an eighteenth-century villa belonged to the noble family Sartorio - originally from Liguria - 1836-1949.

In 1943 the villa was requisitioned by the Germans, then by Tito's partisans in May 1945, and eventually until 1954 by the Allied Military Government.

Meanwhile, namely May 5 1949, on precise testamentary dispositions of Anna Sartorio, the ownership of the property was transferred to the City of Trieste (as entail and with the obligation of transformation into a museum), with its original furnishings and rich art collections, among that the most notable consists of 254 drawings by Giambattista Tiepolo.

The interior can be visited, and is spread over 4 floors, including living rooms, libraries, dance halls and the neo-Gothic hall for music and gaming. Even the dining rooms, with tables set, kitchen and bathroom accomplish this detailed reconstruction of an everyday life.

Across four rooms on the ground floor, the museum hosts 20 works taken from museums and churches of Koper and Piran: a compendium of Venetian artistic production in its most fruitful years, from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, with a few notable quality examples such as works on panel by Paolo Veneziano and Alvise Vivarini, the telero by Vittore Carpaccio and an altarpiece by Giambattista Tiepolo.

On the first floor, in a room that highlights its exceptional quality, has been put in exposition a masterpiece of Venetian painting of the fourteenth century culture: the triptych of Santa Chiara.

Outdoor spaces give room to the Plaster Cast Gallery - Glyptothek, located in the former carriages warehouse, and the air-conditioned picture gallery, with over a thousand paintings (visits available on request).
In the basement floor can be found an exhibition of valuable ancient pottery and the collection of applied art and jewelry, donated by the family Costantinides. The latter, since 1998, with generous contributions has allowed substantial interventions for the renewal of the museum and the park.

Eighteenth-nineteenth century wall paintings inside the villa and the remains of a Roman of the first century. A.D. in the basement floor came to light during the restoration work.