The Museum of San Domenico, located in the former convent of San Domenico of fourteenth-century origin, houses the art collections of the city opened to the public in 2011. The new museum itinerary, built by thematic and chronological nuclei, exhibits about six hundred pieces including paintings, sculptures, ceramics, drawings, coins and medals from the civic collections: together they constitute the chapters of a history through images from the Middle Ages to the present day that has as its thread the city of Imola, of which they highlight places, events, tastes and lifestyles.
These works are different in age, quality and rarity, from the paintings of Innocenzo da Imola, Lavinia Fontana, Cesi, Ubaldo Gandolfi, Viani to contemporaries such as Morandi, de Pisis, Casorati and the Imola-based Sartelli, Raccagni, Bertozzi and Casoni; from archaic ceramics, also the result of recent excavations, to a group of precious Renaissance mugs and the vast production of local ceramic factories from the seventeenth to the twentieth century; to conclude with a very select nucleus of drawings by ancient masters of the Bolognese school such as Carracci, Domenichino, Guercino, Creti and with a significant selection of coins and medals from the Greek period collected by important Imola collectors.
