House of Cristoforo Colombo, Birth house and museum in Cogoleto, Italy.

The House of Cristoforo Colombo is a three-story stone building in Cogoleto featuring a restored 1650 fresco on its facade with inscriptions about Columbus's achievements. Inside, the rooms display exhibits related to the family and their maritime connections.

The Columbus family owned the house in the 15th century and were active in maritime trade, as documented records show from 1449 onward. The building was later restored and decorated with frescoes to preserve the family's history.

The house displays paintings and documents that show how the Columbus family lived and worked in the maritime world. Visitors can understand their place in the seafaring community of the time.

The house stands in Via Rati, in the old core of Cogoleto, near the fortification that protected the town until the 19th century. The facade with its painted epigraphs and Columbus effigy is visible from the street. The building was raised by one floor over its original two, and the alley once at its left has been closed and absorbed into neighbouring houses.

The Columbus effigy painted above the facade epigraph was copied from a canvas kept in Cogoleto's town hall. Achille Neri and the Ligurian art superintendency attributed the original to the 17th-century painter Giovanni Battista Croce, a little-known pupil of Giovanni Andrea Ferrari, though they allow it may date to the late 16th century.