Museo Sistino di Arte Sacra

Opened in 2002, this museum – which forms part of the Piceno Sistine Museums network – is housed in the parish church of San Giovanni Battista, situated in the heart of the old town. The medieval building, rebuilt by the architect Pietro Maggi between 1792 and 1809, was decorated in 1911 by the San Benedetto-born […]

MIC – Museo dell’Illustrazione Contemporanea

The theme of this museum is illustration in all its forms. The permanent exhibition focuses on Italian work, with a particular emphasis on local culture, whilst the central space hosts temporary exhibitions and other initiatives dedicated to illustration, open to exploring every facet of the art form and discovering new talent. Re-established in 2020 and […]

Spazio museale Gianni Ottaviani

Deprived of their original purpose for almost the entire twentieth century, the premises of the Teatro dell’Arancio were long used as venues for the creation and exhibition of visual art. One of the artists who made it his studio in the early 1960s was Gianni Ottaviani; in 2021, Grottammare Town Council decided to symbolically return […]

Il Tarpato Museum

The museum is named after Giacomo Pomili (1925–1997), a naïve painter originally from Grottammare, who gave himself the nickname ‘Il Tarpato’ (the name he used to sign his works), alluding to a forced limitation of his abilities comparable to the condition of a bird with clipped wings. Home to a substantial collection of paintings by […]

Museo Torrione della Battaglia

Opened in 2004, this museum was established within the historic Torrione della Battaglia to make an art collection – entrusted to the Municipality of Grottammare by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ascoli Piceno – accessible to the public. The collection consists of works by Pericle Fazzini gathered by Lisa Schneider, a German model who […]