Le Clarisse Cultural Center
The center is located in the former convent of Santa Chiara in Grossetto and houses 4 cultural institutions
Le Clarisse Cultural Center (Fondazione Grosseto Cultura) is located in the historic center of Grosseto, in the building of the former convent of Santa Chiara. Opened in 2016, it houses four cultural institutions: the Gianfranco Luzzetti Collection Museum, Clarisse Arte, the Roberto Ferretti Ethnographic Collection and MuseoLab.
The Gianfranco Luzzetti Collection Museum is set up on the ground floor of the building, around a small cloister and in the Chiesa dei Bigi, a unique church and a precious example of Baroque art in the city of Grosseto. The museum, which opened in 2019 thanks to the bequest from Florentine antiquarian Gianfranco Luzzetti, born in the Grosseto area, features masterpieces (64 works of art in total, including paintings, sculptures, majolica and antique furniture) dating back to the 14th to the 19th century. The main core of the collection is devoted to seventeenth-century Florentine art, with works by Pier Dandini, Santi di Tito, Cigoli, Passignano, Jacopo Vignali, Francesco Curradi, Giovan Battista Vanni and Pietro Tacca, alongside pieces by the Roman school and significant examples from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
On the first floor is Clarisse Arte, an exhibition space reserved for temporary exhibitions and a documentation center consisting of a library specialized in local art, the artists' archive, the media library and the repository of selected works from public art collections.
On the second floor, the Roberto Ferretti Ethnographic Collection traces the studies, training, history and objects collected by the Maremma anthropologist. The MuseoLab, managed by the Fondazione Polo Universitario Grossetano and the University of Siena, constitutes a laboratory museum created as a result of the urban archaeology excavations in Grosseto (1998-2003) and houses original artifacts and large graphic reconstructions of the history of the city and its territory.
Information on accessibility: museidimaremma.it
