Museums in Verona

Castelvecchio is a 14th-century fortified castle built by Cangrande II della Scala on the banks of the Adige River. It now houses the Museo Civico di Castelvecchio, one of northern Italy's most important art collections, presented in a celebrated renovation by architect Carlo Scarpa.

The Museo di Castelvecchio (Museo Civico) occupies the restored medieval fortress and showcases seven centuries of Veronese and Venetian art. Carlo Scarpa's brilliant 1958–1974 renovation is itself a masterpiece, blending concrete, steel, and stone with the original military architecture.

Verona's Museo di Storia Naturale, housed in the 16th-century Palazzo Pompei, is one of Europe's oldest natural history museums. Its star attraction is the unrivaled collection of 50-million-year-old Bolca fish fossils from the Lessini Mountains.

The Museo degli Affreschi Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle is housed in the former Franciscan convent of San Francesco al Corso. In the crypt lies the stone sarcophagus identified since the 17th century as Juliet's Tomb, a site of literary pilgrimage.

Housed in a former Jesuit monastery perched above the Roman Theater, the Museo Archeologico al Teatro Romano displays Roman and pre-Roman artifacts excavated in and around Verona, from mosaics and bronzes to glass and inscriptions.