Description
The Museo Morpurgo is the untouched home of a wealthy 19th-century Trieste family, on the third floor of a building in the city center: an apartment left just as it was, kitchen and bathroom included. It was left to the city in 1943 by Mario Morpurgo de Nilma, a refined collector.
The pleasure lies in moving from one room to the next, each in a different style, as the taste of the late 19th century wanted: Empire in red, Tuscan Renaissance in shades of brown, Romantic ebonized wood, Louis Philippe in gold and red, the ivory lacquers and pastel blues of 18th-century Venice.
Everywhere there are ceramics, glass, silver, porcelain, books, drawings and paintings. One small room holds a surprise: a collection of chamber pots, donated to the Civic Museums in 2005 by Fulvia Costantinides. The building was designed in 1875 by Giovanni Berlam.
The pleasure lies in moving from one room to the next, each in a different style, as the taste of the late 19th century wanted: Empire in red, Tuscan Renaissance in shades of brown, Romantic ebonized wood, Louis Philippe in gold and red, the ivory lacquers and pastel blues of 18th-century Venice.
Everywhere there are ceramics, glass, silver, porcelain, books, drawings and paintings. One small room holds a surprise: a collection of chamber pots, donated to the Civic Museums in 2005 by Fulvia Costantinides. The building was designed in 1875 by Giovanni Berlam.