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Museo della Fondazione Giovanni Scaramangà di Altomonte

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tel. e fax: +39 040 631585
fondazione.scaramanga@gmail.com
movio.beniculturali.it/pmfvg/viverelottocentoatrieste/it/51/fondazione-scaramang

Address

Museo della Fondazione Giovanni Scaramangà di Altomonte
via Filzi, 1

Details

free admission

Opening hours
Tuesday and Friday: 10:00-12:00 or by advance booking
For guided tours, group visits or after-hours visits, please call during museum opening hours or apply by e-mail.

Created under the will of Giovanni Scaramangà, a merchant of Greek origin an avid collector of Trieste memorabilia, the museum exhibited his collections for the first time in 1962

You are invited to walk through the rooms of the Founder's former home in a building constructed in the second half of the seventeenth century, overlooking Piazza Sant'Antonio at the end of the Grand Canal.

Some rooms have been preserved unaltered for the sake of authenticity, while others have been adapted for exhibitions.

Giovanni Scaramangà descends from an ancient and noble family, originally from the Aegean island of Chios, that moved to Trieste to escape massacre by the Turks during the Greek insurrection. Four family members, including Scaramangà’s great-grandfather, were executed by the Turks.

Giovanni Scaramangà was advisor to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and later its President, a position he held throughout the Great War, at the end of which the Italian Government appointed him Royal Commissioner of the Chamber of Commerce.

After the war, Scaramangà participated in all the city's principal activities and served on the boards of a various bodies, including banks, insurance companies, shipping companies, commercial companies, sports clubs and industrial concerns. At the end of World War Two he became President of Lloyd Triestino and had to cope with all the problems arising from the destruction suffered by the company during the conflict.

After retiring from entrepreneurial activities in 1947 he devoted himself passionately to cultural activities and held prominent positions, presiding over the curation of the Revoltella Civic Museum and serving as a member of the Consultative Commission of the Civic Library.

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