CAMPIGLIA MARITTIMA

Museo di Arte Sacra
The museum is located in the so-called Sala delle Volte (or Room of Vaults) in the church of San Lorenzo. In origin the room was not part of the church but of a medieval building, presumably a prestigious residence, and was brought to light during the excavation work under the parish church. On display is a collection of ancient stone finds and liturgical items dating from the 16th to the 19th century.

Museo del Minerale
The Mineral Museum was established in the late 1960s and exhibits a collection of about 1,500 minerals mainly from Tuscany and Italy, but also from Brazil, South Africa and Morocco.

Museo della Civiltà del Lavoro
The Museum of Work documents the rural and productive activities of Val di Cornia through a collection of farming implements, craft tools and equipment for mechanical workshops. On display are a steam train, carts and carriages, old tractors and a collection of wooden toys.

Palazzo Pretorio - Mostra Permanente dei Reperti della Rocca di Campiglia
The permanent exhibition is housed in Palazzo Pretorio, a 13th-century building that houses also the Campiglia Marittima historical archives and the Enoteca pubblica. The collection comprises archaeological finds from Campiglia Marittima stronghold, including a suit of armour, a helmet and a series of weapons in good state of preservation.

Parco Archeominerario di San Silvestro
San Silvestro Archaeological Mines Park stretches in an area rich in copper, lead and silver, where the mining activity that began in the 7th BC continued up until just a few years ago. The Park houses the Museo Mineralogico e Archeologico (Mineralogical and Archaeological Museum) and the Museo della Miniera (Mining Museum), as well as the imposing remains of the medieval village of Rocca San Silvestro, which in origin was called Rocca del Palmento. The visit includes a tour of the Temperino mine, with an itinerary that illustrates the mining activity that went on from the Etruscan times to a few years ago.


CAPOLIVERI

Museo dei Minerali Elbani - Collezione "Alfeo Ricci"
"Alfeo Ricci" Museum of Elban Minerals exhibits a collection of minerals from various parts of the isle of Elba, which Alfeo Ricci began in the 1930s and then has been continued by his heirs.


CASTAGNETO CARDUCCI

Centro di Valorizzazione "Casa Carducci"
The centre is located in the literary park dedicated to Giosuè Carducci and houses a permanent exhibition on the poet and his relationship to Castagneto. The museum composes of the two rooms where Carducci lived between 1879 and 1894. On display are memorabilia, furniture and furnishings. Access is granted to three digital archives on Carducci`s works and the places where he lived.

Centro per la Conservazione dell`Arredo Sacro e del Costume Religioso
The museum displays a collection of liturgical hangings and furnishings belonging to the Della Gherardesca family and coming from the local churches. Of particular interest are a bust of Saint Bartholomew in silver leaf and a wax Christ Child.

Museo Archivio "Giosuè Carducci"
The museum houses a collection of items relative to the life and works of Giosuè Carducci, who lived in Castagneto between 1879 and 1894.


CECINA

Museo Civico Archeologico
The museum displays a collection of archaeological finds documenting the history of Cecina, Montescudaio, Riparbella, Guardistallo, Casale Marittimo and Bibbona. Of particular interest are a cinerary urn unearthed in Montescudaio, a votive bronze statue from Bibbona and some marble tombstones.

Parco Archeologico della Villa Romana di San Vincenzino
Archaeological excavation has brought to light the remains of an ancient Roman villa from the Imperial age. The site features also a large underground cistern in good state of preservation that constitutes proof of the techniques the Romans used to collect water. A 19th-century building houses a permanent exhibition with a collection of finds unearthed during the excavation of the villa.


LIVORNO

Acquario Comunale "Diacinto Cestoni"
The aquarium named after the great naturalist Diacinto Cestoni houses animal and plants species typical of the Mediterranean basin and tropical seas as well as the collection of showcases with specimens of invertebrates named after Mauro Sordi, the long-time director of the aquarium. The aquarium houses also temporary exhibitions.

Museo Civico "Giovanni Fattori"
Since 1994 the museum has been housed in Villa Mimbelli. It exhibits a collection of works by 19th- and 20th-centuy artists, especially paintings by Giovanni Fattori and the Macchiaioli. Many of the works on display were bequeathed by the artists themselves or by private individuals.

Museo di Storia Naturale del Mediterraneo
The Museum of Natural History of the Mediterranean is housed in the 18th-century Villa Henderson and is divided into several sections. The so-called Room of the Sea is mainly devoted to cetaceans and features a reconstruction of the Mediterranean marine environment, whereas the Room of Man illustrates human evolution in the Mediterranean basin. In addition to the botanical garden and to mineralogical, palaeontological, zoological and geological collections from the surrounding area, the museums houses also a collection of prehistoric and natural history finds from Africa and Asia Minor. The planetarium enables the exploration of the sky to discover its secrets.

Museo Ebraico
The museum exhibits liturgical hangings, parchments, books and items of worship belonging to the Jewish community of Livorno. Particularly interesting is the 16th-century ark from Livorno first synagogue.

Museo Mascagni
The museum has a collection of documents, photographs, diplomas, letters and other memorabilia that belonged to Pietro Mascagni, the composer born in Livorno in 1863. The collection includes a series of pianos and a signed page of "Cavalleria Rusticana".


MARCIANA

Fortezza Pisana
Built by the Pisans in the 12th century and then remodelled by the Appiani three centuries later, the quadrangular fortress with four keeps affords a wonderful view of the north-western part of the isle of Elba.

Museo Civico Archeologico
The museum exhibits a collection of archaeological finds dating from prehistoric, Etruscan and Roman times that were brought to light in the isle of Elba.

Museo dell`Arte Contadina
The museum is housed in an old oil-mill. On display are old working implements for vine-growing activities, which were once the main economic activity in the western part of the isle of Elba.


PIOMBINO

Museo Archeologico del Territorio di Populonia
The museum is housed in the 19th-century Palazzo Nuovo, in the historic centre of Piombino, inside the fortified citadel, and illustrates the relationship between man, land and resources. The museum exhibits prehistoric artefacts, finds unearthed in the Etruscan necropolises of Populonia and a collection of items from the Roman times, including the famous silver amphora found in the bay of Baratti. The scale reconstructions of some particular landscapes illustrate the changes the Populonia area has experienced in the course of the centuries.

Fortezza Medicea - Museo del Castello e della Città di Piomobino
The Museum of the Castle and City of Piombino is housed in the Medicean Fortress. Built between 1552 and 1557 at the order of Cosimo I de` Medici, the fortress has a star-shaped plan and incorporates the castle, which was built in the second half of the 15th century. The castle was used as a prison from the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. Through a collection of ceramic and metal finds, explanatory panels and some information stations the museum illustrates the history of the town and the castle.

Museo Diocesano d`Arte Sacra "Andrea Guardi" Città di Piombino
The museum is housed in the rooms adjoining to the second cathedral of Sant`Antimo, in what in the past was an Augustinian monastery. On display in the three rooms are sacred hangings and furnishings, wooden and marble sculptures, the remains of a 15th-century fresco, paintings from the local churches and two crucifixes dating from the 16th and 17th century.

Museo Etrusco Gasparri
The museum exhibits over 2,000 finds from Villanovan and Etruscan times unearthed in Baratti and Poggio delle Granate. The finds form the private collection of the Gasparri family.

Parco Archeologico di Baratti e Populonia
Populonia was the only Etruscan town that directly faced the sea. The town owed its fortune to the processing of the iron coming from the mines of the isle of Elba. The remains of the industrial quarter where the workshops for the transformation of iron were situated are still to be seen. The Archaeological Park of Baratti and Populonia includes also the necropolises of San Cerbone and of the Grotte, the industrial quarter and the acropolis. Visitors can also participate in workshops of experimental archaeology.


PORTOFERRAIO

Fortezze Medicee
Cosimo I de` Medici promoted the foundation of the town of Portoferraio in 1548 on the remains of the Roman Fabricia and medieval Ferraia. The three main strongholds called Forte Falcone, Forte Stella and Fortezza della Linguella formed the defensive system of the town. The strongholds were interconnected by a system of bastions and walkways.

Museo Civico Archeologico
The museum is housed in the Fortezza della Linguella and documents the strategic role played by the islands of the Tuscan archipelago in maritime trade through a collection of finds from the 8th century BC to the 5th century AD coming from the islands of the archipelago.

Museo Napoleonico della Misericordia
The museum exhibits a collection of items that belonged to Napoleon, including a death mask from the mould made on Saint Helena by the emperor`s doctor.

Museo Nazionale delle Residenze Napoleoniche - Palazzina dei Mulini
The museum is housed in the Palazzina dei Mulini, an 18th-century building adjacent to Forte Stella where Napoleon lived with his court during his exile on the isle of Elba between May 1814 and February 1815. On display are paintings, memorabilia and furniture, as well as about 250 books that were part of Napoleon`s personal library and that the emperor donated to the town.

Museo Nazionale delle Residenze Napoleoniche - Villa San Martino
The museum is housed in the villa Napoleon used as his summer residence in 1814. The frescoed rooms still contain the original period furnishings.

Open-Air Museum
The museum created by the artist Italo Bolano consists of 20 ceramic works situated in a park of about 10,000 square metres.

Pinacoteca Foresiana
The art gallery exhibits paintings and artefacts from the 16th to the 19th century forming the collection that Mario Foresi, an intellectual with diverse cultural interests who lived straddling the 19th and 20th century, bequeathed to the town.


RIO MARINA

Parco Minerario dell`Isola d`Elba - Museo dei Minerali e dell`Arte Mineraria
The Mineral Museum of Elba and of the Mining Art is housed in the Palazzo del Burò, an 18th-century building that in the past housed the administration offices of the mines. It exhibits some 7,000 specimens of minerals coming from the various mines on the isle of Elba, as well as a collection of original tools and materials found in the abandoned mine fields and a collection of photos of the mines of Rio Marina and Capoliveri. The museum features also the life-size reconstructions of a blacksmith`s workshop, a shelter for miners and a stretch of a tunnel.


RIO NELL`ELBA

Museo "I Minerali Elbani della Gente di Rio"
The museum houses some 200 samples of minerals collected in the iron mines in the eastern part of the isle of Elba.


ROSIGNANO MARITTIMO

Museo Civico Archeologico
The museum exhibits finds from prehistoric times to the Middle Ages that were unearthed in Val di Cecina. Of particular interest are some funeral items from the necropolis of Castiglioncello.


SUVERETO

Museo Artistico della Bambola - Collezione Maria Micaelli
The museum displays several types of dolls, from those made by Casa Lenci to the 1930s and 1940s models made of plastic and celluloid.

Museo Civico (Parrocchiale) di Arte Sacro San Giusto
The small museum exhibits some interesting works of sacred art, including a group of wooden sculptures depicting an "Annunciation" from the 13th-14th century.