Musei di Strada Nuova, Art gallery complex in Via Garibaldi, Genoa, Italy

The Musei di Strada Nuova is a single museum formed by three adjoining palazzi on Via Garibaldi: Palazzo Rosso, Palazzo Bianco and Palazzo Tursi, the last also housing Genoa's city hall. The visit starts at Palazzo Rosso with paintings from the 15th to 20th centuries, continues in Palazzo Bianco with Genoese, Ligurian, Flemish and Spanish art, and ends in Palazzo Tursi with Canova's Penitent Magdalene and the Paganini rooms. A 2016 walkway links Palazzo Bianco to Palazzo Tursi, crossing the site of the destroyed church of San Francesco di Castelletto, where surviving arches and marble fragments are displayed.

Palazzo Rosso and Palazzo Bianco opened as separate civic museums in 1874 and 1892; Palazzo Tursi, now also Genoa's city hall, gained cultural functions in 2004, when a single ticket and route united the three Rolli palaces of Via Garibaldi. A 2016 walkway links Palazzo Bianco to Palazzo Tursi across the site of the demolished church of San Francesco di Castelletto.

The route ends in Palazzo Tursi's Paganini rooms, where Niccolò Paganini's violin, Il Cannone Guarnerius, is kept with other relics of the Genoese violinist and composer. The palaces themselves were the Rolli residences of Genoese merchant families, and the collections show what those families acquired: Caravaggio's Ecce Homo, Van Dyck portraits of the Brignole Sale, and Canova's plaster Penitent Magdalene.

The visit runs in one direction: start at Palazzo Rosso, continue to Palazzo Bianco, then cross the 2016 walkway over the excavated church of San Francesco di Castelletto to Palazzo Tursi. Before entering Palazzo Tursi you can step out into Palazzo Bianco's upper archaeological garden. A single ticket covers all three palaces.

The visit ends in Palazzo Tursi, which also houses Genoa's city hall. There the civic collections bring together weights and measures of the ancient Republic of Genoa, ceramics, coins and medals, and the Paganini rooms holding Niccolò Paganini's violin, Il Cannone, with other relics of the Genoese violinist and composer.