Museum of Farnese Garments

Exhibition

Inside the first room, called "Loggione", clothes for ceremonies male and female of the 1400 are displayed. There is French style in these garments.

This room is called "Loggione" because it was a balcony during the age of Farnese; in fact the frescoes in this room show the landscapes outside the palace.

There is one inner section underwear and accessories: underwear, gloves, hats, socks, shoes and many other accessories for both man and women.

This is the armory and Monochrome frescoes. The hall decorated with monochrome frescoes depicting naval and land battles show. It has armors and clothes of the 16th century.

Inside this room there is watch a video on costume, fashion and everyday life of the Renaissance.

In this room there are a lot of clothes of the 16th century with a Spanish style coming from Bourbon domination in Italy. The clothes used came from the textile centres of Florence and Venice.

These clothes ore: velvet, damask, brocade and silk.

In the center of the room is Pope Paolo III (Alessandro Farnese) with the cope embroidered with golden lilies.

In this room there is an original loom of the end of the 1800 and several tools for the manufacture of wool and hemp such as spindles, bobbins, carding combs and scutch ammaccatoi. There is also the exposition pitchers, baskets, old irons and colander for pasta and ricotta.

The sixth room has a reproduction of the scene of the marriage of Ottavio Farnese and Margaret of Austria.

In this room people can watch multimedia and interactive videos with educational games and a virtual tour of the museum.

There are also classrooms and laboratories for the creation of art workshops in painting on fabric and Renaissance fresco.