Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Mansi

The Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Mansi is a national museum housed in a Baroque palazzo in the historic centre of Lucca, Tuscany, presenting decorative arts and painting collections. The museum displays the former palace interiors as period rooms alongside fine and decorative arts collected in the building.

Exhibits include paintings, frescoed rooms, tapestries and period furnishings that illustrate aristocratic taste and domestic decoration from the 17th and 18th centuries. The palace setting itself is a principal part of the visitor experience, with original room layouts and decorative schemes.

The palace was constructed and altered across the early modern period as a private residence for a noble family and later became a public museum to preserve its collections and interiors. The buildings decorative programme and furnishings reflect the tastes of Luccas aristocracy.

Palazzo Mansi is in central Lucca, a short walk from the city walls and principal squares; Lucca is in north-west Tuscany and is about 70 kilometers west of Florence by road.

• Baroque palace museum: Housed in a Baroque palace in the historic centre of Lucca, with collections that include paintings, tapestries and period furnishings.

What to See #

• Galleries and state rooms: A series of state rooms and picture galleries occupy the palace interiors, showing collections of paintings, decorative arts and historic furnishings.