Dedicated to a famous historian and art critic of the 19th century, Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, the museum houses frescoes painted between the 10th and 16th centuries, detached from private Veronese palaces and religious buildings to be rescued after the damage caused by the flooding of the Adige in 1882. Built inside the 13th-century convent of San Francesco al Corso, this museum is attached to Juliet’s Tomb, which was opened in 1935 on the site of the ark that held the bodies of Romeo and Juliet (according to legend), making it a tourist attraction.
It has recently been restored and enlarged with other collections, including sculptures made in the 19th century by Innocenzo Fraccaroli and Torquato della Torre, many paintings by artists who lived between the 16th and 18th centuries, and the frescoes recovered from the Grotta dei Santi Nazaro e Celso, one of the oldest sacellums in the Veronese territory.
Full ticket price: 4.5 euros.