Complesso di santa Caterina, Archaeological and art museum in Treviso, Italy

The Complesso di Santa Caterina is the Treviso Civic Museums' site in the former Servite convent and the Gothic ex-church of Santa Caterina. The convent rooms, arranged around two cloisters, hold the archaeological collection on the ground floor and the picture gallery on the first floor of the southern wing, while the single-nave church keeps 14th- and 15th-century frescoes.

The Servites built the convent and church of Santa Caterina from 1346 on the site of the Da Camino palace, granted by the commune that year; the church was finished between the late 14th and early 15th century. Suppressed in 1772, the buildings passed to the Franciscan tertiaries of Belfiore, then in 1806 were taken over for military use under Napoleonic laws. After the 1944 and 1945 bombings, restorer Mario Botter uncovered frescoes hidden under whitewash, and from the 1970s the complex was converted into the seat of Treviso's civic museums.

The former church of Santa Caterina keeps frescoes painted between the second half of the 14th and the early 15th century, including a Saint Catherine holding a model of Treviso and a Madonna dell'Umiltà. The Stories of Saint Ursula by Tomaso da Modena (1355-1358) are displayed here, recovered by abbot Luigi Bailo from the church of Santa Margherita degli Eremitani.

The visit runs from the ground floor to the basement of the former convent, with the archaeological collections on both levels and the picture gallery on the first floor of the southern wing. The route was designed by architect Dinah Casson and opened on 29 June 2007. Temporary exhibitions occupy the hypogean hall beneath the great cloister.

The prehistoric and protohistoric collections are displayed in the basement, not the ground floor. Among them are bronze swords of the Sauerbrunn, Boiu and antenna types, Etruscan-made or locally imitated, found along the Sile and Piave rivers, plus five votive discs showing a key-bearing goddess.