Museum of San Colombano - Tagliavini Collection

About this audio guide

This guide to the Museum of San Colombano in Bologna opens with a puzzle: a church said to date to the year 616 sitting on foundations centuries older than its own founding. It follows the 2005 restoration that cracked open the floor on Via Parigi and uncovered a medieval crypt, a thirteenth-century tomb and a buried crucifixion fresco attributed to Giunta Pisano. Look up at the frescoed ceiling overhead, stabilized with climate control threaded in so gently it never had to be touched during the years of work below.