Casa Museo Colocci Vespucci

Why it matters

Palazzo Colocci in Jesi preserves the rooms and furnishings of a noble family home. The Casa Museo Colocci-Vespucci presents domestic life in a sixteenth-century residence, with objects, furniture and family pictures accumulated between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. The Colocci-Vespucci family played a role in the political and cultural history of Jesi.

What to notice

The palace's reception rooms and private quarters retain the proportions of a Renaissance town house. Furniture, household objects, family portraits and memorials reflect successive generations. The house's domestic character distinguishes it from a gallery arranged around individual artworks.

Context and history

The Colocci-Vespucci marquises built the palace in the second half of the sixteenth century. It remained in family use before being converted into a house museum. Its collections preserve material evidence of domestic life from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries.