In The City Center, At The Palazzo dei Priori

The museum collection is the most comprehensive and complete in Umbria, for the variety and number of artistic works ranging from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century.
The consistency and the value of the collection in 1863 led to the establishment of a Municipal Art Gallery, named after Pietro Vannucci. In 1918 it was ceded to the Italian State and assumed the name of Regia Galleria Vannucci, then the National Gallery of Umbria.
The works are exhibited with a chronological order: the third floor that between the thirteenth and fifteenth century, those on the second floor between the sixteenth and the nineteenth century.
The path is interrupted by monographic sections dedicated to: Umbrian fabrics, jewelry, ceramics, graphics and ancient topography.
Among the works we remimd just the best-known as belonging to artist past to history, whose very name is synonymous with masterpiece
The Cross of the Presbytery of the Master of San Francesco (1272), the Madonna and Child by Duccio di Buoninsegna (early fourteenth century), the Guidalotti Altarpiece by Fra Angelico (1447-1448), the Altarpiece of the New Wisdom of Benozzo Gozzoli (1456), the Polittico for franciscan terizarie of Piero della Francesca (1467-69), the Adoration of the Magi by Perugino and interventions and decorative furniture made for the current Cappella dei Priori  by Benedetto Bonfigli and Perugino (1450 - c. 1460 ).
The same location of the National Gallery, the Palazzo dei Priori, is itself a masterpiece, considered one of the most interesting examples of civil Gothic buildings in Italy.

Price Tickets:
Full price: € 6.50.
Reduced ticket: € 3.50; European Union citizens between 18 and 25 years, teachers of State Schools.
Free tickets: EU citizens under 18 and over 65 years.