Verona Museums

Arena
Piazza Bra – tel. + 39 045 8003 204

Opening Hours
Mondays from 13:30 to 19:30
(the ticket office closes at 18:30)
From Tuesday to Sunday 8:30 am – 19:30
(the ticket office closes at 18:30)
In the days of the show Anfiteatro Arena closes at 17.00, closing at 16.00 cash

Tickets:
entire euro 6,00 – small groups and fare 4.50 euros
schools and families reduced 1.00 euros
Cumulative Arena + Museum Maffeiano: full 7.00 euros – 5.00 euros reduced
Cumulative small schools and families EUR 1.00

Open 24 and December 31 9.00 – 18.30
Open December 26 and January 6 2009 9.00 – 19.00
Closed December 25 and 1 January 2009

Torre dei Lamberti
Via Costa 1
tel. 045 9273027
e mail: torredeilamberti@agec.it

Winter hours:
– Monday to Thursday: 9.30 – 20.30
– Friday, Saturday and Sunday: 8.30 – 22.00

Summer hours (from June 15 to September 15):
– Monday to Thursday: 9.30 – 20.30
– Friday and Saturday: 8.30 – 24.00 (also in the evenings of entertainment in the Arena)
– Sunday: 8.30 – 22.00

Tickets:
full 6.00 euros – ridottogruppi and fare 4,50 euro
schools and families reduced 1.00 euros
Torre dei Lamberti cumulative + Scaliger: full 7.00 euros – 5.00 euros reduced
Cumulative small schools and families EUR 1.00

Scaliger
Via Santa Maria Antica, 4

Timetable (only June to September):
– Tuesday-Sunday: 8.30 – 19.30 (closed box: 18.30)
– Monday: 13.45 – 19.30 (closing cash: 18.30)

Tickets:
Cumulative affordable to the Torre dei Lamberti

Open 24 and December 31 9.00 – 18.30
Open December 26 and January 6 2009 9.00 – 19.00
Closed December 25 and 1 January 2009

Casa di Giulietta
Via Cappello, 23 – tel. +39 045 8034303

Hours:
– Tuesday-Sunday: 8.30 – 19.30 (closed box: 18.45)
– Monday: 13.30 – 19.30 (closed box: 18.45)

Tickets:
entire euro 6,00 – ridottogruppi and fare 4,50 euro
schools and families reduced 1.00 euros
Cumulative Casa + Tomb: full 7.00 euros – 5.00 euros reduced
Cumulative small schools and families EUR 1.00

Open 24 and December 31 9.00 – 18.30
Open December 26 and January 6 2009 9.00 – 19.00
Closed December 25 and 1 January 2009

Castelvecchio Museum exhibits important collections of medieval art, Renaissance and modern (up to the eighteenth century): 29 rooms of exhibitions of paintings, sculptures, archaeological finds, weapons. Works on display: 622; specializing in cabinets: 90,000 coins and medals around 2650 drawings, prints 8000, 800 photographic plates, and warehouse: 2500 paintings, sculptures and bronzes 500, furniture and decorative arts 800, 300 and arms 200 ethnographic collection .
In addition to the exhibition halls, the Cabinet Drawings and Prints and the Numismatic Cabinet are: management, administrative and technical offices, general archive, photo library, hall for exhibitions, point of sale catalogs, workshops subsidy.
The restoration began in the late 50s, was working closely Licisco Magagna director and designer Carlo Scarpa in thinking is a philological restoration of spaces, both in choosing and placing the works functionally and emotionally closer to the idea of museum as a work of art totale.Da then the Museum of Castelvecchio has become the reference point.

Information and contacts:

Museo di Castelvecchio

As:

For information on tickets see Annex

Where:

Museo di Castelvecchio
Corso Castelvecchio, 2
Phone 045/8062611 (switchboard)
Fax 045/8010729
email: castelvecchio@comune.verona.it

When:

Opening Hours
Mondays from 13:30 to 19:30
(the ticket office closes at 18:45)
From Tuesday to Sunday 8:30 am – 19:30
(the ticket office closes at 18:45)

Lapidary Museum Maffeiano

Among the oldest public museums in Europe, the Lapidary (epigraphic collection Greek, Etruscan, Roman and early, but also Arab) was established in 1745 by mainly operates all’appassionata collection Scipione Maffei, an outstanding man of culture veronese. Resources will rise from the ancient walls that linked Piazza Bra and Castelvecchio. The site was designed from the outset as a garden of access to the theater at the Philharmonic.
Since 1612 the Academy bought Philharmonic 28 epigraphs and was subsequently exhibited in the courtyard in front of the building. The museum is a fitting must at the same Scipione Maffei, the Museum was then purchased by the city in 1883 and has been rearranged according to modern in 1982.
The epigraphic material and remarks sections are distributed according to historical data in the courtyard where you enter the small theater Philharmonic, in the basement and two rooms above. The rearranged, completed in 1982, a cura di Lanfranco Franzoni, designed by. Arrigo Rudi, emphasized, among other things, the neoclassical pronaos, ingreso principal Theater Philharmonic Hall by Maffeiana. From the rooms you enter the walkway above the doors Scala of Bra.

Information and contacts:

Lapidary Museum Maffeiano
Piazza Bra, 28
045 590087 – Fax 045 8010729

As:

For the cost of tickets see Annex

When:

Opening Hours
Tuesday to Sunday 8.30 – 14:00
(the ticket office closes at 13.30)
on Mondays from 13:45 to 19:30
(the ticket office closes at 18.45) (call for confirmation)

Set in Piazza Bra ‘, the amphitheater of Verona was built in the first half of the century. AD, between the end of Augustus and the empire of Claudius. Third largest amphitheater in Italy after the Colosseum el’anfiteatro di Capua, has an elliptical shape, perfect acoustics for all points and accommodate a large number of spettatori.Il most solemn monument of Roman Verona, with various orders steps and, at the center, or an arena for gladiatorial shows, combats of wild beasts or with other manifestations of popular character, was built of marble blocks with well-squared in the first century AD, namely between the end of Augustus and the empire of Claudius. Monuments of this kind is one of the best preserved. The amphitheater consists of three concentric walls: the first is external to us only that part which is commonly called “Ala” (the rest of the outer ring collapsed due to the earthquake of 1117): This was composed of 72 pillars corresponding to many arcades, with half of the Tuscan order. The cavea is based on hollow chambers and tunnels. The tiers of the amphitheater, which can be reached from 64 vomitorium are all marble veronese. Under the terms of the stalls are located (but now you can not visit) tunnels, and passageways andito who once served and still serves in part, for the operation of the complex.

The Anfiteatro Arena for reasons of site, for problems related to the safety of visitors, in days:

October 2-9-16-23 closes at 17.30 Closing 16.30 cash

28-30 October and 4-6 November closes at 16.30 Closing 15.30 cash

11-13-18-20-27 November and December 4-11-18 closes at 15.30 Closing 14.30 cash

Information and contacts:

Piazza Bra
tel. 045 8003204

As:

For information on tickets see Annex

Where:

Piazza Bra
When:

Opening Hours
Mondays from 13:30 to 19:30
(the ticket office closes at 18:30)
From Tuesday to Sunday 8:30 am – 19:30
(the ticket office closes at 18:30)
Museum of Frescoes “Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle” at the tomb of Juliet

In the Museum of Frescoes “G.B. Cavalcaselle“, opened in 1973, have exposed 50 frescoes, sculptures 7 in 6 halls of the museum and restored 22 large paintings in the adjacent church of San Francesco al Corso.
In the convent where entering the Tomb of Juliet, were set up laboratories and restoration of the deposits of collections of art antica.Nel is an underground deposit of Roman amphora of the first century AD found in excavations of the area.

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Information and contacts:

Via del Pontiere, 35
tel. 045 8000361

As:

For the cost of tickets see Annex
When:

Opening Hours
Mondays from 13:30 to 19:30
(the ticket office closes at 18:45)
From Tuesday to Sunday 8:30 am – 19:30
(the ticket office closes at 18:45)
The Toy Museum “The House of Dreams”

Toy Museum
“The House of Dreams”
Standing Toy Museum
Verona, Via Carlo Donati 13/bis (Torricelle)

“The House of Dreams”, the first permanent museum of the toy in Verona is a fascinating exhibition space located between the green hills of Verona.

Open since 2006, the museum was born from an initiative of the Foundation Gaspari Avrese, in order to create and exploit a collection of rare and valuable toys in the past, with pieces from the late 50s to 700 of 900

The collection is the result of a search not only technical, but especially emotional and aesthetic of policy, Luciana Gaspari, who more than twenty years ago he started with passion and love the collection of antique toys.

Today the collection includes over 3,000 pieces, dolls, horses, theater, puppets and puppets, doll houses, wooden horses, a rocking chair and non-mechanical toys, animals of various types and materials (wood, paper, biscuit, celluloid, fabric , tin, iron and more).

Toys “lived” by girls and children of past ages, which may continue to “talk” to visitors today.

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The Foundation has made Gaspari Avrese The Wood of Tales, the park adjacent to the museum organized in a thematic area dedicated all’immaginario child and the values of the environment. E ‘open from April 21 to October 31. Insights in the connected

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Information and contacts:

Foundation Gaspari Avrese onlus
Phone +39 045 8309066
Website: www.ilmuseodelgiocattolo.it

information and reservations

Fondazione Aida
+39 045 8001471 +39 045 595284 e-mail: fondazione@f-aida.it
Monday to Friday from 9 am to 18

The activity of the Toy Museum has the patronage of the Municipality of Verona

Who cares:

girls and children
families
adults and fans of old games
nursery schools
primary schools
high schools
high schools
business groups
tourist groups
social institutions

As:

Admission with ticket costs 5 euro

Possibility, by appointment, guided tours / animated for different schools
accompanied by group leaders explaining the exhibits with stories inspired by fairy tales and stories
Guided tours for groups

Where:

Via Carlo Donati 13a – 37128 Verona

Getting there

When:

Opening
to the public every Sunday

from May to October from 15 to 19 hours (summer)

from November to April from 14 to 18 hours (winter)

for schools and groups by appointment only
Monday through Friday

guided tours / animated for different schools

accompanied by group leaders explaining the exhibits with stories inspired by fairy tales and stories

Guided tours for groups

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