Museo della città di Rimini

The Museo della Città di Rimini, dedicated to Luigi Tonini, is the principal city museum of Rimini on the Adriatic coast of Emilia-Romagna, housed in a former 18th-century Jesuit college near the historic centre. Its collections recount the long history of Rimini and its territory from prehistory and the Roman colony of Ariminum through the Middle Ages and Renaissance to the modern era, and the museum is closely linked to the adjacent archaeological area of the Domus del Chirurgo, the House of the Surgeon, whose extraordinary finds it displays. The Roman section is a particular strength: from the Domus del Chirurgo, a 2nd- to 3rd-century AD physician's house destroyed by fire, came the richest set of Roman surgical and medical instruments ever found, alongside vivid floor mosaics and household objects that are presented in the museum. Other archaeological rooms hold sculpture, ceramics, glass, and the great mosaics recovered from the Roman city. The medieval and Renaissance galleries gather paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts, including works connected to the Malatesta lords of Rimini and a notable holding of regional painting, with pieces by artists such as Giovanni Bellini's circle and the Rimini school of the 14th century. A modern section reflects Rimini's identity as the birthplace of the film director Federico Fellini, complementing the city's wider celebration of his work. The display is broadly chronological, leading visitors from antiquity through medieval and Renaissance art to the modern age, and as a civic institution it provides contextual panels and ties together the city's scattered monuments. Together with the Domus del Chirurgo it forms the core of Rimini's heritage itinerary beyond its famous beaches.