Galleria Regionale della Sicilia, Art museum in Kalsa district, Palermo, Italy.

The Galleria Regionale della Sicilia occupies Palazzo Abatellis and displays regional artworks spanning medieval periods to the 1700s. The building itself features Gothic architecture with windows and a courtyard that naturally light the collections.

The palace was built for Francesco Abatellis, port master of Sicily, from 1490 on a design by Matteo Carnalivari. After his death it passed to the adjoining Benedictine convent and later served as a hospital and barracks. Since 23 June 1954 it has housed Sicily's largest art museum, opened to the public that day.

The museum's name honours Sicily's regional collections, and its best-known work is Antonello da Messina's Annunziata di Palermo, a portrait of the Virgin of the Annunciation. Wim Wenders used that painting as a model for the female lead in his 2008 film Palermo Shooting, which also shows the Triumph of Death fresco.

The museum opened to the public on 23 June 1954 and occupies the Palazzo Abatellis on Via Alloro in Palermo's old town. The former palace chapel holds the Triumph of Death fresco, while paintings, sculptures and ceramics fill the other rooms. Look for the carved diamond panels and twisted columns of the stone portal on the facade.

One fresco depicts Death as a skeleton on horseback, distinguishing between nobles and common people beneath. This Gothic work offers a rare window into medieval ideas about mortality and social order.