Villa Freischütz, Cultural heritage villa in Obermais, Merano, Italy.

Villa Freischütz is a three-storey villa built in 1909–1910 in Obermais, a district of Meran. It has a mansard hipped roof, two bay-like projections on the south side, corner quoining and an external staircase to the first-floor entrance. The pale pinkish-beige stucco walls are partly covered by climbing ivy, and an arched entrance with a rounded pediment sits at the lower right.

The villa was built in 1909–1910 for the Merano butcher Ignaz Gritsch, who sold it in 1921 to Franz Fromm, a wine merchant from Klein Lengden near Göttingen. Fromm moved in permanently in 1922 and filled the house with over 1,000 objects, including 16th- and 17th-century cabinets. His granddaughter Rosamaria Navarini (1926–2013) left the house and collection to the Navarini-Ugarte foundation, which opened it as a museum in 2019.

The villa displays how wealthy families lived in the early 20th century through its furniture, artworks, and personal objects on show. The rooms give visitors a sense of how people of that era furnished their homes and spent their daily lives.

The house opens to visitors from mid-April to early November and is located at Via Priami 7. You can reach it by bus line 1 or find parking at Via Belvedere.

At the end of 2023 the museum was shortlisted for the European Museum of the Year Award 2024. Its 2021 exhibition on an Ethiopian cloak, likely looted in the colonial era, made it the first museum in South Tyrol to address restitution of looted art; the accompanying podcast won the 2021 DigAMus Award.