Description: Il sito ufficiale dei Musei Civici di Ascoli Piceno: Pinacoteca Civica, Forte Malatesta, Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea, Museo dell'Arte Ceramica, Musei della Cartiera Papale
The Civic Picture Gallery was officially inaugurated on August, 4th, 1861, the day preceding the festivities of Ascoli Piceno’s patron Saint Emidio
The Malatesta Fortress is one of the most important and spectacular examples of fortified architecture from the Renaissance in Italy and one of the most fascinating sites in Ascoli Piceno
Despite a vivid cultural period at the beginning of the 60s, Ascoli did not have a public institution that presented the 20th century artistic movements. It was the painter Ernesto Ercolani who filled this gap