Casa Museo di Palazzo Tozzoni

Palazzo Tozzoni in Imola is a house museum preserving the furnishings, art and archives of a family with roots in the city dating to the late fifteenth century.

Why it matters

The palace preserves an unusually complete record of aristocratic domestic life across several centuries, including both noble apartments and the agricultural economy that supported the family.

What to notice

The early eighteenth-century Barochetto apartment contrasts with the Empire wing refitted for the 1818 marriage of Giorgio Barbato Tozzoni and Orsola Bandini. Furniture by Angelo Bassi and wall decoration by Pasquale Saviotti belong to the Empire rooms. The palace also preserves a family archive and agricultural tools from its estate cellars.

Context and history

The Tozzoni family arrived in Imola from Tuscany in the late fifteenth century. The palace took its present form between 1726 and 1738, when two adjoining houses were joined. Sofia Serristori Tozzoni donated the residence to the municipality, and the house museum became part of the city's civic museum system.