Gallery · Bologna, Emilia-Romagna
Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna
Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna
The Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna is a national picture gallery at Via delle Belle Arti 56 in Bologna's university area, in a 17th-century former Jesuit novitiate.
Why go
The Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna is a national picture gallery at Via delle Belle Arti 56, in Bologna's university area. Bologna Welcome, the city's official tourist information site, says it occupies the 17th-century former Jesuit novitiate of Sant'Ignazio, opened to the public in 1885 and was fully renovated in 1997. According to the same page, its collection includes works by Raphael, Perugino, Tintoretto, Titian, the Carracci, Guercino and Reni, and Giotto's Bologna Polyptych, and the gallery also hosts temporary exhibitions. The gallery's own website could not be reached on 9 October 2026, so no entry or booking rule is given here.
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