Description
The Museo Teatrale Carlo Schmidl tells two centuries of theatre and music in Trieste. It is housed in the Borgo Teresiano, on the Canal Grande, in Palazzo Gopcevich, a 19th-century palazzo with inlaid floors and decorated ceilings.
The first-floor rooms trace the history of the city's theatres and their stars through stage costumes and jewellery, playbills, photographs and paintings. The collection of musical instruments is worth a stop, from the fortepiano to the harmonium and on to mechanical instruments such as the player piano.
The museum also holds the personal archive of Giorgio Strehler, to whom spaces on the second floor are devoted.
The palazzo was built in 1850 by Giovanni Andrea Berlam for the Serbian shipowner Spiridione Gopcevich. Its eclectic façade on the canal is decorated with statues, friezes and medallions recalling the heroes of the Battle of Kosovo, in 1389.
The museum was born in 1924 from the collection of the music publisher Carlo Schmidl and for decades stayed inside the Teatro Verdi, before arriving here in 2006.
The first-floor rooms trace the history of the city's theatres and their stars through stage costumes and jewellery, playbills, photographs and paintings. The collection of musical instruments is worth a stop, from the fortepiano to the harmonium and on to mechanical instruments such as the player piano.
The museum also holds the personal archive of Giorgio Strehler, to whom spaces on the second floor are devoted.
The palazzo was built in 1850 by Giovanni Andrea Berlam for the Serbian shipowner Spiridione Gopcevich. Its eclectic façade on the canal is decorated with statues, friezes and medallions recalling the heroes of the Battle of Kosovo, in 1389.
The museum was born in 1924 from the collection of the music publisher Carlo Schmidl and for decades stayed inside the Teatro Verdi, before arriving here in 2006.