Palazzo Davia Bargellini, Renaissance museum and palace on Strada Maggiore, Bologna, Italy

The Palazzo Davia Bargellini is a Baroque palace on Strada Maggiore, built from 1638 without the customary portico. Its portal is flanked by two large stone telamons, locally called giganti, carved in 1658 by Gabriele Brunelli and his pupil Francesco Agnesini. The building houses the Museo Civico d'Arte Industriale.

Camillo Bargellini, of a Bolognese senatorial family, commissioned the palace in 1638 to a design by Bartolomeo Provaglia, with construction directed by Antonio Uri and completed in 1658. Provaglia gave up the usual portico to make the block stand out beside Santa Maria dei Servi. After a late-17th-century feud with the Ariosto family ended both lineages, the Davia family inherited the Bargellini name, property and fortune, occupying the palace from 1839 to 1874.

The collection includes paintings by artists such as Vitale da Bologna and Simone dei Crocifissi, reflecting the city's artistic traditions. Works on display show how local painters portrayed their world across different periods.

The palace sits on a main street in the city center and is easily walkable from downtown Bologna. The surrounding neighborhood has many other attractions within walking distance, making it simple to combine this visit with other sites.

The gilded carriage in the collection is a Berlin-type vehicle. Though engraved with the heraldic shield of Filippo de Angelis (1792–1872), it likely had more than one owner and probably belonged earlier to the Pepoli family.