Museums, art galleries and libraries - Lilac and Black Routes

MUSEUMS OF PREHISTORY

SANREMO
Civic Archaeological Museum

Paleolithic finds from Valle Argentina; Roman and medieval finds. Picture Gallery.

Via Matteotti, 143.

Tel. 0184-531942.

Opening hours: 9-12.30 and 15-19.30.

Closed on Mondays and on Sundays afternoon.

 

VENTIMIGLIA
Balzi Rossi Prehistoric Museum

Prehistoric finds (including burials) of the nearby caves.

Grimaldi hamlet.

Tel. 0184-38113.

Summer Opening hours: 9-13 and 14.30-19.30.

Winter Opening hours: 9-13 and 14.30-18.

Closed on Mondays.


MUSEUMS OF THE ROMAN AGE

SANREMO
Civic Archaeological Museum

Paleolithic finds from Valle Argentina; Roman and medieval finds. Picture Gallery.

Via Matteotti 143.

Tel. 0184-531942.

Opening hours: 9-12.30 and 15- 19.30.

Closed on Mondays and on Sundays afternoon.

 

VENTIMIGLIA
Girolamo Rossi Museum

Oil lamps, glass, plaques/tombstones, sculptures of the Roman necropolis. Slide show.

Via Verdi, 15 (Forte dell'Annunziata).

Tel. 0184-351181.

Summer Opening hours: 10-12 and 17-19.

Winter Opening hours: 10-12 and 15-17.

Closed on Mondays.


MUSEUMS OF RURAL CULTURE

PIGNA
Ethnographic Museum

Farming and artisanal vintage tools.

Tel. 0184-241016.

Open at irregular hours (best to book).

Free admission.


OTHER MUSEUMS

SANREMO
Villa Nobel

Laboratory and study of the scientist.

Corso Cavallotti, 116.

Tel. 0184-507380.

Open on Thursdays and Saturdays 9-12.

Free admission.

 

SANREMO
Picture gallery attached to the Civic Archaeological Museum

Via Matteotti, 143.

Tel. 0184 531942.

Opening hours: 9-12.30 and 15-19.30.

Closed on Mondays and on Sundays afternoon.

 

BORDIGHERA
Pompeo Mariani permanent exhibition

Pompeo Mariani paintings, drawings, sketches and watercolors.

Via Romana, 39.

Tel. 0184-263601.

Open from Monday to Friday 9 to 12 and 15 to 17.30; in summer also on Saturdays and Sundays 21-23.

 

PIGNA
Ethnographic Museum

Farming and artisanal vintage tools.

Tel. 0184-241016.

Open at irregular hours (best to book).

Free admission.

 

VALLECROSIA
Temple-Museum of song and sound reproduction

Devices for sound reproduction, records and scores of pop music. Liberty train.

Fraz. Garibbe - Via Roma, 108.

Tel. 0184-291000.

Open to coincide with the attached restaurant.

Closed on Tuesdays.

Free admission.


LIBRARIES

BORDIGHERA
Clarence Bicknell Library

Seventy thousand volumes on local history, terrestrial and underwater archeology, glottology, toponymy.

Via Romana, 39 bis.

Tel. 0184-263601.

Open from Monday to Friday 9 -13 and 15 -17.30.

 

BORDIGHERA
Civic International Library

About sixty thousand volumes of which twenty-five thousand in English, four thousand in German and six thousand in French, on various subjects.

Via Romana, 52.

Tel. 0184-266332.

Summer Opening hours: Monday to Saturday 7.30-13.30.

Winter Opening hours: Monday to Friday 8 -13 and 14.30-18.

 

CAMPOROSSO
Oberto Doria Library

Two thousand volumes, some books from the sixteenth century, two incunabula.

P.zza Garibaldi, 35.

Tel. 0184-28044.

 

OSPEDALETTI
Civic Library

Fifteen thousand volumes of various subjects.

C.so R. Margherita, 1.

Tel. 0184-58730.

From Monday to Saturday: summer opening hours 16-19, winter opening hours 15-18.

 

SANREMO
State Archives

C.so Cavallotti, 362.

Tel. 0184-508910.

From Monday to Saturday 8.30-13.30.

 

SANREMO
All Saints Church Library

C.so Matuzia, 1.

Tel. 0184-667575.

Open on Fridays 10.30-11.30.

 

SANREMO
Municipal Library

One hundred thousand volumes on various subjects, thirteen incunabula, one hundred sixteenth-century books, disks, tapes, microfilms.

Via Carli, 1.

Tel. 0184-531632.

From Monday to Saturday: summer from 8.30 to 13.30; winter from 9 to 19.

 

SANREMO
Nobel Prize Library

Two thousand Nobel Prize publications.

Villa Nobel - C.so Cavallotti, 112.

Tel. 0184-507380.

Open on Thursdays and Saturdays 9-12.

 

VENTIMIGLIA
State Archives

Via Hanbury, 12.

Tel. 0184-34855.

Open from Monday to Saturday 8.30-13.30.

 

VENTIMIGLIA
Aprosiana Civic Library

Twenty-five thousand volumes, seven thousand of which antique, on various subjects.

Via Garibaldi, 10.

Tel. 0184-351209.

From Monday to Saturday 10 -13; Mondays and Thursdays also 15-18.