Museo Nazionale d'Arte Medievale e Moderna della Basilicata

Carlo Levi's mural and paintings - worth seeing and hearing the story

Matera and its cave housing is today a tourist destination but until the 60's the poorest dwellings of the poorest in Matera. The south of Italy was neglected and poor but Carlo Levi's book and work i...

This place is stunning...

This is a 'Do Not Miss' museum. On the side of the museum, it also has a look-out area of the Sassi for those of you would love a good backdrop (Sassi). Simply stunning.

worth a visit

I wanted to see the Carlo Levi paintings, which turned out to be OK but not terrific. The best thing were three photos by Henri Cartier Bresson of Matera in the early 1950s. Those were truly memorable...

Worth a visit

We went on the days when all the museums in Italy are free (they do this twice a year). We had several high school students guiding us through the space. The collection is average but interesting. ...

Only if you've done everything else...

Only worth a trip really if you’ve visited all the chiese rupestri in the town and have nothing much else to do. The art on show is a lot of gloomy sub-Caravaggio stuff, a local artist whose name esca...