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.