The civic museum of Belluno, founded in 1876, is now located in Palazzo Fulcis De Bertoldi, after the valuable restoration work of the historic palace of the aristocratic family of Belluno from which it takes its name. Its twenty-four eighteenth-century rooms, characterized by elegant stucco and elaborate Venetian floors, are spread over five floors.
The museum itinerary starts from the lapidarium where a heterogeneous series of testimonies from the city of Belluno is collected.
On the first floor there are the noble double-height hall and the first fourteen rooms of the museum, with the paintings of the civic collection from the dawn of the history of Belluno with the fourteenth century of Simone da Cusighe up to the paintings from the Baroque room, passing through the cultures of Matteo Cesa, the Renaissance plaques and bronzes of the Florio Miari collection, the jewels of the Prosdocimi Bozzoli collection, the eighteenth-century porcelain of the Zambelli collection, the stucco of the alcòva and a selection of drawings and prints.
Going up to the second floor there are nine other rooms, containing the sculptural works of Andrea Brustolon and Valentino Panciera Besarel, the canvases of Marco and Sebastiano Ricci, the views of Ippolito Caffi and the works of various other exponents of Belluno’s painting of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The top floor, in addition to hosting a space reserved for temporary exhibitions and a teaching room, houses the three large canvases made by Sebastiano Ricci for the decoration of Pietro Fulcis' dressing room of Hercules.
