Complesso museale di San Francesco, Museum complex in Montone, Italy

The San Francesco Museum Complex occupies a former convent building arranged across multiple floors with separate exhibition spaces displaying local artifacts, artworks, and archaeological finds. The rooms unfold through several levels and present collections spanning art and archaeology from the region.

The church of San Francesco is documented from the 13th century; the adjoining convent was enlarged around the 16th century as the number of friars and lay brothers grew. After Italian unification and the suppression of religious orders, the Franciscans left and the complex passed to the state, remaining neglected for about a century. Restoration led to its opening as a municipal museum in 1995.

The picture gallery keeps the wooden Deposition group from the old parish church of San Gregorio Magno and Bartolomeo Caporali's Madonna della Misericordia, painted in 1482 as a plague banner. Two early 18th-century genealogical trees of the Fortebracci family show only male names, except Stella, sister of Braccio, whose son Nicolò brought his uncle's remains back from L'Aquila.

The complex stands in Montone's historic centre, in the church of San Francesco and the adjoining former convent. The picture gallery is on the first floor of the convent, while the Museo multimediale dei Fortebracci occupies ground-floor rooms; the gallery was being rehung in 2025, so check before travelling for it.

The two Fortebracci family trees, made in the early 18th century, share the same content but differ in form: one hung in the family's last residence, the other in the council hall of Montone's town hall. Both trace the line from Ugolino in 1100 and mark Braccio da Montone on the right branch.