Luogo - Museum
Musei Reali - Galleria Sabauda
Where
Via XX Settembre, 86, Torino
The Gallery houses noteworthy collections. It was established by Charles Albert in 1832 on the basis of the old picture collection of the Dukes e Kings of Savoy. Since 1865 the Gallery has been situated on the second floor of the seventeenth-century Palazzo del Collegio dei Nobili, later the Academy of Sciences.
Besides housing the collections of the Savoy family, e works from the collections of Prince Eugene of Savoy-Soissons e of the Savoy-Carignano family, as well as paintings from Palazzo Durazzo in Genoa, the Gallery has expeed its collection over time by acquiring paintings of Italian, Piedmontese e Flemish schools. It includes the Gualino collection.
