From the 14th of July at the Museum
Sculputers by Jørgen Haugen Sørensen
The Museum will open on the 3rd of May
The Museum of Palazzo Pretorio reopens to the public.
Admission free until the 15th of February.
Until the 9th of September the visit to the permanent collection remains free, while the visit to the exhibition "After Caravaggio. The Neapolitan seventeenth century painting in the collections of Palazzo Pretorio and De Vito Foundation" costs € 5.
The Museum will be open with free access from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Until the 31st of July it is possible to visit the Museum of Palazzo Pretorio with a special entrance of 5 euros.
Throughout the month the museum will be open from 9.30 a.m. to 3 p.m. (closed on Tuesday). Entrance costs also change: access to the permanent collection will be free, while the visit to the exhibition "After Caravaggio" will cost 5 euros.
At the Textile Museum and the Museum of Palazzo Pretorio an extraordinary promotion connected to the #ioescoincentro campaign: with three purchase receipts of shops located in the historic center, you get two tickets for the chosen museum by paying only one.
Every Thursday in July the Museum will be open until 11.00 p.m.
To avoid waiting at the entrance of the museum, you can book the entrance.
The Palazzo Pretorio Museum reopened to the public on 18th of May
From 14th December to 6th January 2021
After Caravaggio. The Neapolitan seventeenth century collections of Palazzo Pretorio and the De Vito Foundation, is the title of the exhibition organized by the Municipality of Prato, in collaboration with the De Vito Foundation.
PalazzoPretorioMuseum, in collaboration with CoopCulture, has elaborated a project so that the use of services can be completely accessible. The room dedicated to the “Holy Belt” is provided with communication support instruments to satisfy the needs of people with particular communicative necessities or those who require aid for communication and comprehension.
The panoramic terrace, integral part of the exhibition, is a jewel. A privileged vista to enjoy Prato as in a postcard from the roof of Palazzo Pretorio: our terrace offers suggestive views that can be captured with the lens.
Visitors coming to Prato will find everyday a museum to visit: the Pratomusei network (Museo di Palazzo Pretorio, Museo del Tessuto, Musei Diocesani and Centro Pecci) grants full accessibility seven days a week. Thanks to the alternate closures in fact, even on Mondays Museo di Palazzo Pretorio and Musei Diocesani will be open to the public.
Art and culture, tailored on time.
The works of Palazzo Pretorio come to life in the tableaux vivants by Luigi Presicce. Performance of the artist together with the Academy of Stillness
Wednesday the 15th of August special appointment on the Midsummer Feast with a postponed closure at midnight
238 reviews for our Museum, of these 162 were 'excellent' and 68 'very good'. Decisively few 'average' reviews only 3 and poor or very bad 4.
Concert Live
Sunday 3rd June
SADI OORTMOOD / Live electronics
TONY BOWERS / Contrabbasso e strumenti etnici
SORGENTE / Voce
CLAUDIO MACCHIA / Sound design e coordinamento tecnico
PROMOTION PRATO MUSEUMS : during the days of the Festival you can visit at 1 € the Textile Museum, the Center for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci and the Praetorian Palace Museum
Saturday, the 21st of April
DJ set in headphones starting at 10 p.m.
2 hours of music, 3 DJs, a fabulous location, a special event. Palazzo Pretorio celebrates its fourth birthday
Saturday the 6th of January at 4 p.m.
Choir of the treble voices of the "G. Verdi" Music School
An initiative promoted by Pratomusei for cinema audience
Keeping the movie ticket purchased in Omnia Center and UCI Cinemas multiplexes and giving it to the ticket office of one of the museums of Pratomusei network (Pecci Center, Textile Museum, Museum of Palazzo Pretorio and Cathedral Museum), you can buy a reduced ticket to visit the museum.
Sweet wishes
Starting from 2 p.m. all visitors to the exhibition Bound by a Girdle and the Museum will receive a free package of Prato biscuits (Biscottificio Mattei).
From 3 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. the ticket for the permanent collection of the Museum (the exhibition is not included) is offered at the special price of 1 euro.
Both initiatives are organized by the PratoMusei network.
23rd December 2017, at 9,15 p.m.
The concert "in Occorsus / Oremus" is inspired by the exhibition "Bound by a Girdle" currently in residency at Palazzo Pretorio Museum. A musical project created by the musician Sadi Oortmood (Samantha Bertoldi)
Our Lady of the Assumption by Bernardo Daddi and the identity of a city
Palazzo Pretorio Museum, Prato
7th September 2017 | 14th January 2018
To accompany the great exhibition in Palazzo Pretorio, three equally valuable exhibitions will guide visitors to other important places for the city that preserve traces and memories of the Sacred Belt.
On Friday, the 5th of January 2018
Also if you are not from Prato you will get the same reduced ticket as a resident
Not only. The Museum will also be open until 10.30pm!
On Sunday, the 26th of November at 5 p.m., a concert to say no to violence against women, the Museum hosts "Barefoot" words and music in tribute to Rosa Balistrieri
Protagonist of the performance, free admission, is the "Duo Ammatte" with Alessia Arena and Federica Bianchi
for the opening of the exhibition Legati da una Cintola, the museum will remain open until 8pm
Sunday, the 9th of July at 10 p.m.
Pratophonia, listening to the sounds of the city from the terrace of Palazzo Pretorio
Sorry, sold-out
From 20 May 2017 to 9 July 2017
Paintings, drawings, three large canvases and some sculptures by the artist Paola Angelini show to the public a choral and original re-elaboration of the essence of a museum that holds masterpieces of art together with the identity and memory of Prato.
The Museum celebrates three years from its opening and offers a day of free admission.
On Wednesday the 12th of April the opening time is extended till 8 p.m. accompanied by the music of the Verdi music school.
The rediscovered works of Pretorio Stories, from Saturday 21st January a new temporary exhibition that returns to the public view an important part of the collection which is not included in the museum.
Temporary exhibition on the ground floor.
The voice of Monica Demuru and cello by Luca Tilli protagonists of the event on Sunday, the 5th of February.
In collaboration with Metastasio Jazz and Camerata Strumentale "Città di Prato".
A morning with art and music, organized by the Museum in collaboration with Camerata Strumentale "Città di Prato", is what awaits visitors on Sunday the 29th of January at 9.30 a.m. for a new appointment of Breakfast with the Art.
Palazzo Pretorio Museum joins 18app, the initiative by the MiBACT (Ministry of Culture) and the Council Presidency dedicated to promote culture among young people. Those who became 18 years old in 2016 can use the bonus to buy admission tickets or "Pretorio Friends Card".
There are also opportunities for teachers with Teacher's Card.
The rediscovered works of Pretorio Stories, from Saturday the 17th of December, in a new temporary exhibition that returns to public gaze an important segment of the collection which is not included in the museum route
Watch the work as it progresses to capture on canvas the essence of Palazzo Pretorio. A detailed and intensive work by the young artist Paola Angelini.
For the price of one ticket it is an invitation to participate in this innovative project, either in its creative entirety or in individual moments.
A morning with art and music, organized by the Museum in collaboration with Camerata Strumentale "Città di Prato", is what awaits visitors on Sunday the 18th of December at 9.30 a.m. for a new appointment of Breakfast with the Art.
Original and unusual themes, works of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, not well known but quality works, very intriguing and with a predilection for portraits. This is the corpus of the exhibition “Paintings from the donation by Leonetto Tintori, restorer in the trenches during the years of the flood” which opens Saturday, the 26th of November at 4 p.m. at Palazzo Pretorio.
26th November 2016 – 8th January 2017
From the 7th to the 28th of October are on exhibition in our spaces on the ground floor the ten projects that reached the final in the design competition of the new Central Park, after on Saturday the 1st of October an international jury met to select the winner. Our Museum, upholder of the city memory, becomes the ideal place to tell the future city.
PalazzoPretorioMuseum, in collaboration with CoopCulture, has elaborated a project so that the use of services can be completely accessible. The room dedicated to the “Holy Belt” is provided with communication support instruments to satisfy the needs of people with particular communicative necessities or those who require aid for communication and comprehension.
Every day of the week visitors will always find an open museum, which is ready to welcome them: the offer of Pratomusei system guarantees 7 days a week full accessibility to the public. Thanks to the alternating closures it is possible to visit PalazzoPretorioMuseum and Cathedral Museum also on Mondays.
There are times when you feel that life has a meaning and a continuity. This is what I feel today as, together with my city, I celebrate the arrival of the 43 drawings and the 21 plaster pieces by Jacques Lipchitz that will find a home in the Municipal Museum of Prato. These are a donation from the attorney Hanno D. Mott, son of Mrs. Yulla Lipchitz.
Encouraging tourism through the arts and promotion of the region. With Museum entrance tickets you can get discounts at the restaurant for lunch or dinner, enjoy an aperitif and also buy a book at the bookstore. Bars, restaurants, hotels and other premises work hand-in-hand with the Museum to give fresh impetus to our city and its artistic heritage.
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After almost twenty years and in the splendid space of the Palazzo Pretorio, once again one is able to admire a collection of masterpieces from across the centuries, thanks to both the great men who loved the city and also to great artists such as Bernardo Daddi, Giovanni di Milano, Donatello, Filippo Lippi and the Prato artists Filippino Lippi and Lorenzo Bartolini.
From the 17th May until 20th July, an exhibition by the artist Emilio Isgrò pays homage to the most Tuscan of all 20th century writers, Curzio Malaparte. Depicted are eleven illustrious Tuscans, obscured by typical censorship marks: Dante, Giotto, Datini, Lorenzo the Magnificent, Savonarola, Machiavelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Galileo, Puccini and Malaparte. From the artist’s canvas emerges text that has escaped censorship, proclaiming in several languages: “I declare that I am not…”
Pratomusei is a network that brings together the Palazzo Pretorio Museum, the Luigi Pecci Contemporary Arts Centre, the Textile Museum and The Prato Diocesan Museum. This collaborative network was set up in February 2013 with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding. The objective of the network is to develop organisational and cultural synergies, capable of reinforcing Prato’s position within the great cities of the arts.
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