Museo dei beni culturali cappuccini

Father Cassian was a genuine Capuchin friar, who tried to represent his ideal of Capuchin life with the creation of the museum, founded in 1978. It was a collection of artifacts, documents and testimony relating to the costumes and furnitures from the convents's everyday life. The brothers now have decided to maintain the museum behind the times. The Museum of the Cultural Heritage of the Capuchins of Genoa is a modern structure. The intent is to help a better understanding of the fascinating world that is behind the life of a monk through temporary exhibitions, now on a topic now on another, but always with an eye towards the activities that the Genoese Capuchin friars have played, and continue to play within the convents entrusted to them. Since 2005, the museum has proposed several exhibitions through which it was possible to present to the public part of the UNESCO's Cultural Heritage of the Capuchins of Liguria, collected with great zeal by the Capuchin friars from various convents that, because of the crisis of vocations, have been closed in recent years. Part of the permanent collection of the Museum are also important names of Ligurian painting and sculpture, such as Bernardo Strozzi, Domenico Fiasella, Luca Cambiaso, Orazio De Ferrari, Giovanni Battista Paggi, Domenico Piola, Anton Maria Maragliano.