The structure of the former Convent of San Francesco houses on the ground floor, in the premises of the former sacristy, the Art Gallery section of the City Museum and, on the first floor, the offices of the ECO Point. The art gallery was inaugurated in April 2011.
The Museo del Fiore is a naturalistic museum located in the woods of the Monte Rufeno Nature Reserve near the medieval village of Torre Alfina. Each of its spaces, internal or external, is dedicated to the many interpretations with which the theme of flowers can be addressed. In short, a place where you can finally discover “everything you ever wanted to know about flowers but never dared to ask”.
The City Museum constitutes a real integrated city museum system with its three exhibition venues all located along the road axis that coincides with the urban crossing of the Via Francigena, still today the backbone of the urban layout of the historic center. At the southern entrance of the city is the branch of the Torre Julia de Jacopo which houses an important collection of archaic majolica.
The City Museum constitutes a real integrated city museum system consisting of three exhibition venues. The headquarters are located in the halls of the Bishop’s Palace, built in 1649. Here you can admire the collections of diocesan sacred art and the numerous ceramic finds, which illustrate the history of Aquesian ceramics from the Middle Ages to the present day.
