Casa Carbone, Historic residence in Lavagna, Italy

Casa Carbone is a house museum in Lavagna, in the province of Genoa. The building reflects typical 19th-century regional construction, while its interiors follow a fin-de-siècle style of local noble residences. It holds a collection of Wedgwood ceramics, along with linens, dinner services, porcelain dolls, and, in Emanuele Carbone's study, scientific and astronomical instruments and books.

Casa Carbone is a 19th-century Ligurian bourgeois residence, not an 18th-century building. In 1987 the last owners, siblings Emanuele and Siria Carbone, donated it to the FAI, which restored it and opened it as a house museum in 2004.

The house keeps the everyday life of a twentieth-century Ligurian bourgeois family: linen, dinner services and porcelain dolls are displayed as they were left. Emanuele Carbone's study holds his scientific and astronomical instruments, books and magazines, showing his eclectic interests.

Casa Carbone is in Lavagna, in the province of Genoa, and is managed by the FAI, which reopened it as a house museum in 2004 after restoration work. Opening days and visiting arrangements should be checked on the FAI website (fondoambiente.it or visitfai.it) before setting out. The rooms are visited on a route through the reconstructed domestic interiors, including Emanuele Carbone's study.

In Emanuele Carbone's study, scientific and astronomical instruments sit alongside the books and magazines he collected, showing the range of an eclectic owner's interests. The house also holds a prized collection of Wedgwood ceramics, and everyday linens, dinner services and porcelain dolls fill the rooms.