Pinacoteca e Musei Civici di Camerino

Camerino's Civic Museums and Picture Gallery bring together local painting, dynastic portraits and archaeological collections. Their association with the former San Domenico convent adds a historic religious setting to the history of civic collecting.

Why it matters

The picture gallery preserves works connected with Camerino's late-medieval and Renaissance artistic culture. Archaeological material places that later history within the much longer occupation of the surrounding territory.

What to notice

The painting collection includes works associated with Olivuccio di Ciccarello, Cola di Pietro, Arcangelo di Cola and Girolamo di Giovanni. An eighteenth-century portrait series represents the Ferrara branch of the Da Varano family. Archaeological holdings encompass prehistoric material, Greek and Roman antiquities, pottery and fragments of Roman mosaic.

Context and history

The collections developed in the nineteenth century, with many paintings entering civic ownership after suppressions of church property. In 1997 the museums moved into the monumental San Domenico complex. This was an adaptation of an older convent, not a new purpose-built museum. The 2016 earthquakes damaged the complex and brought conservation of both building and collections into renewed focus.