galleria nazionale dell'umbria

This museum is very interesting has a beautiful collection of Perugino and other artist of Toscana and Perugia.

Artfanatics real must-see place. Other minor disappointment. When I visited there, there was on exhibiotion of two Canaletto paintings. They were well worth seeing, and perhaps this was a once in a lifetime event to see them. The building is beautiful inside.

I can't say i was greatly impressed but overall feeling was quite pleasant. If you keen on arts and have time to visit it, give it a try

Turned out to be closed on Mondays. Never mind. I could never have seen as much as I wanted to in the time available, and it'll be a good excuse to come back to Perugia - :)

a thorough visit would take much more time than that available to the average tourist. Yet, room after room you get the chance to see and enjoy ssome of the most eloquent evidences of Umbria's glorious artistic past.

Excellent collection of Italian art between the 13th and 19th centuries. We highly recommend this museum. We spent two hours in this amazing museum.

Visually stunning building with an impressive collection. Even if the art is not to your liking, it's worth a trip to enjoy the structure.

Nice building, interesting collection and some of the paintings make it really a museum that you must visit when in Umbrie

Masterpieces from the middle ages and Renaissance in the Palazzo dei Priori, by Perugino and Pinturicchio amongst others. Plenty of space and quiet to enjoy everything at leisure. I'd like to see more information in English but thoroughly enjoyed my visit to this impressive collection.

We bought the Perugia card for €10 each, which allows you to visit five attractions including the National Gallery, and we agreed that we had more than our money's worth from the Gallery alone. My advice is to give yourself plenty of time - we arrived shortly after 9 a.m. and staggered out, exhausted but overwhelmed, three hours later.As others have said, the Peruginos are the most striking works, but there are many works by less well-known artists that are very impressive. Not all of these are Umbrian and a few are not even Italian by birth though they worked in Italy - we were particularly taken with the realistic style of the 17th-century Valentin de Boulogne.

This art gallery holds one of the best art collections in Italy, including rare works by Perugino, Pinturicchio and other Umbrian artists.

A great museum, beautifully laid out and an excellent collection spanning Italian painting, and some other things of course.

I am a big fan of Perugino, so it was the museum for me- many many of his great works. In general, the museum is quite big and you have plenty to see in it.

I'm not generally considered to be a person who frequents galleries. No. I'm more likely to be found languidly supporting my mildly inebriated weight on the polished surface of some hidden bar or speakeasy. As a child my parents dragged me to so many galleries, exhibitions and poetry readings that I ended up associating art events with sore feet and dull adults. But here in Italy, the staggering beauty of centuries’ worth of art, the sheer weight of thousands of years of civilisation, well, it simply swept away any niggling issues I have with galleries like dust driven forth by a hurricane. I had just spent the previous two weeks hastily plastering over a lifetime of ignorance and barbarity by visiting the various galleries of London, which had been brilliant. I then went to visit some acquaintances in Northern Italy. I walked through piazzas, arm in arm with a beautiful Italian girl (a friend, but it was still fantastic.). I ate many cheeses. I cooked pastas and got drunk on the watery local Pinot Grigio. I was in Heaven. And then I went to Venice. And was immediately in Hell. Now I know why Venice is sinking: The sheer weight of obese foreign tourists, thundering along the pathways, the mass of millions of excess hamburgers is driving Venice further into the mud; one step at a time. I stayed for three hours before thinking Sod This. I took a train to Perugia. I knew nothing of Perugia. I arrived late at night, awoke in the morning, downed a small espresso, and went straight to the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria. The exhibition here was, most certainly, the most staggeringly impressive thing I have ever seen. It began on the top floor, and worked its way down through the floors and the centuries, until finishing several floors below. I will not go into too much detail here, but I will say this to you now: Go there at once. Leave the office or apartment, wherever you are, get onto a plane, and go to this gallery. I was breathless a third of the way down, speechless halfway down, reeling and dumbstruck by the end. Yes, it’s partly because I’m a barbarian who is not entirely used to the charm of antiquity. But it’s more than that too, and I suggest you go there, and find out for yourself.

This is a really well laid out art gallery in a beautiful building. You start on the third floor with medieval and renaissance paintings. There are lots information boards, in Italian and English describing each period and the associated artists. You proceed down to the second floor, with all the works being in chronological order. The emphasis is on Umbrian paintings. The gallery can easily keep you occupied for the morning.