On course for Masterpieces
Genoa. A network of museums

Genoa, city of museums and masterpieces. This is how Genova la Superba presents itself to its guests as they arrive not only in a magnificent stretch of land wedged between the sea and the hills, filled with mediaeval buildings and Renaissance palaces, baroque churches and newer 20th-century districts, but also in an urban setting packed with museums.
Visitors are invited to follow a newly-created itinerary to discover Genoa’s extraordinary network of museums: some thirty different locations that offer an overview of art and knowledge from antiquity to the present day. The trail takes in the Museum of Ligurian Archaeology and the Contemporary Art Museum, natural history and oriental art, a lighthouse and a submarine, stretching from ancient to modern in a story told through beauty, innovation, discoveries and wonders.
On Course for Masterpieces is the first and most comprehensive project to bring together the museums of Genoa in a network where each point along the route presents its own highlight, a showpiece that is a must-see for every guest to our city (and indeed every inhabitant). The 2023 edition, tied in with The Ocean Race, begins and ends its itinerary with some magnificent «guest masterpieces»: Van Gogh’s 1889 Landscape with Wheat Sheaves and Rising Moon on display at the Palazzo Ducale marks the starting point, while the finishing point is an exhibition entitled Art Symphonies. Masterpieces in Dialogue between Modena and Genoa featuring paintings from the BPER Banca art collections displayed on the piano nobile of Palazzo Doria Carcassi, the headquarters of the Carige Foundation.

Locations and masterpieces

A network of museums by Comune di Genova with Palazzo Ducale Fondazione per la Cultura

Conceived and curated by Anna Orlando