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 Church of Bigi, a unique and precious testimony of Baroque art in the city of Grosseto.
The museum itinerary, opened in December 2019, features art masterpieces (paintings, sculptures, majolica, antique furniture) dating from the 14th to the 19th century. These include works attributable to Antonio Rossellino, Giambologna, Santi di Tito, Cigoli, Rutilio Manetti, Passignano.
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
