Bologna City Art Collections, Art museum in Palazzo d'Accursio, Bologna, Italy.

The Bologna City Art Collections occupy the second floor of Palazzo d'Accursio, built in the second half of the 16th century to enlarge the apartments of the Cardinal Legates. The museum, inaugurated on 18 October 1936, displays paintings, sculptures, and decorative objects from the 13th to the 20th century in rooms decorated with frescoes from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Access is from the Sala Farnese.

The second floor of Palazzo d'Accursio was built in the second half of the 16th century to enlarge the apartments of the Cardinal Legates, who lived there until 1859, except between 1796 and 1815. The collections opened on 18 October 1936 in these already decorated rooms. The holdings come largely from municipal purchases after Italian unification and from bequests such as those of the painter Pelagio Palagi (1860) and the sculptor Cincinnato Baruzzi (1878).

The displayed works reflect the artistic tradition of the Emilia region, with religious paintings and furnishings from different periods that show how local artists created over centuries. The rooms themselves tell of the lifestyle of noble families who once lived here and left their collections behind.

The collections occupy the second floor of Palazzo d'Accursio, reached from the Sala Farnese; there is no lift to the museum rooms, so visitors with limited mobility should plan accordingly. The 24 rooms are arranged in a fixed route, from the Sala degli Svizzeri to the rooms of detached frescoes, and the visit takes about an hour and a half.

The museum keeps its artworks in grand rooms decorated with frescoed ceilings that convey the original character of aristocratic living spaces. This approach makes visiting much more than viewing objects alone, instead offering a sense of stepping into the actual rooms where collectors once lived.