MUSE

Top choice in Trento


A stunning modernist architectural work, courtesy of Renzo Piano, houses this 21st-century science museum and cleverly echoes the local landscape. Curatorially, the museum typifies the city's brainy inquisitiveness, with highly interactive exhibitions that explore the Alpine environment, biodiversity and sustainability, society and technology. Highlights are a truly amazing collection of taxidermy, much of it suspended in a multistorey atrium, along with the fabulous Maxi Ooh! experiential kids area for three- to five-year-olds.


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Nearby Trento attractions

1. Duomo

0.45 MILES

Once host to the Council of Trent, this dimly lit Romanesque cathedral displays fragments of medieval frescoes inside its transepts. Two colonnaded…

2. Fontana del Nettuno

0.46 MILES

In the centre of Piazza del Duomo is the town's beloved if rather unlikely Fontana del Nettuno, a splashing 18th-century fountain dedicated to the trident…

3. Piazza del Duomo

0.47 MILES

Trento's heart is this busy yet intimate piazza, dominated, of course, by the duomo, but also host to the Fontana del Nettuno, a flashy late-baroque…

4. Museo Diocesano Tridentino

0.49 MILES

Sitting alongside the duomo, this former bishop's residence dates from the 11th century. It now houses one of Italy's most important ecclesiastical…

5. Case Cazuffi-Rella

0.5 MILES

Frescoes decorate the facades of two private Renaissance houses, known as the Case Cazuffi-Rella, on Piazza Duomo's northern side.

6. Galleria Civica di Trento

0.52 MILES

This city gallery/project space is the Trento campus of the Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto and focuses on 20th-century and…

8. Castello del Buonconsiglio

0.86 MILES

Guarded by hulking fortifications, this massive edifice was home to Trento's bishop-princes until Napoleon's arrival in 1801. Enclosed within is the…

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