The image of Trento from the 16th to the 20th century

ATTENTION: The exhibition section is currently not open to visitors. You will be able to return to admire it from spring 2025.


The exhibition section dedicated to the image of Trento from the 16th to the 20th century occupies the ground floor spaces and can be visited with the museum entrance fee. 

Through paintings, prints and photographs from the Museum's collections, one can discover how the face of the city has changed over the past five centuries, from the Council of Trent to World War II. With this permanent exhibition, the Museum aims to make available to all kinds of audiences an important heritage of art and culture, a place to discover and deepen knowledge of Trent, the evolution of the urban fabric, and the salient episodes of its recent history.

The exhibition itinerary is divided into three different sections, organized in chronological order: the first room brings together prints and paintings from the 16th-18th centuries that show the older face of the city of Trent, enclosed in crenellated medieval walls and protected to the north by the bend in the Adige River, rectified between 1854 and 1858.
The second room is devoted to the image of Trent between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; in this period new ways of representing urban space widened the view to the surrounding area, projecting the city's skyline against the backdrop of the mountains.
The photographs exhibited in the third and last room, belonging to the historical photographic fund of the Museo Diocesano Tridentino, document the transformations experienced by the territory of Trent and its buildings between 1850 and 1945.