Situated in via L. Tonini 1, next to the church “del Suffragio”, it is hosted in the eighteenth-century convent of the Jesuits (info: tel 0039 0541 793851) and it keeps the historical and cultural heritage of Rimini and its area. It is a source of wonder and curiosities: here you can even find little pieces of stone that the Romans used as entrance tickets to the Anphitheatre or little statues representing the gladiators. A rare hoard of Roman coins, magnificent mosaics, amphorae, bricks from the clay kilns run by the first entrepreneurs in Rimini.
In the art gallery there are paintings, sculptures, ceramics, tapestries and jewellery. An imponent fresco of the fourteenth century painting school of Rimini with the Last Judgement, the fine Crucifix by Giovanni da Rimini, the precious polyptych by Giuliano da Rimini, pottery vases and jars decorated with coats of arms of the Malatesta family, valuable works of the Malatesta time commissioned to famous artists such as: Giovanni Bellini, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Agostino di Duccio, Pisanello, Matteo de' Pasti, Guido Cagnacci, il Centino, il Guercino and Simone Cantarini. In the garden-courtyard there is a Roman Lapidary, which contains an epigraphic collection of about one hundred Roman inscriptions.
On the ground floor there is an area dedicated to Renè Gruau, a famous contemporary fashion designer from Rimini, deceased in March 2004.
Recently a new Arcaeological section has been open in the museum. It is dedicated to the Imperial Rimini of the 2nd and 3rd century. Here the richest surgical and pharmaceutical equipment of the Surgeon Domus is kept together with the famous mosaic with the ancient boats, once in the Domus Diotallevi.