Museo Madre

The Museo Madre, officially the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, is a major contemporary art museum in the heart of Naples. It houses the collection of the Donnaregina Foundation and focuses on movements such as Transavantgarde, Arte Povera, and Conceptual art, as well as works from the 1950s onward. The museum occupies a historic Baroque palazzo that the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira converted into a modern exhibition space between 2004 and 2005. The interiors were deliberately painted white and stripped of clutter, creating a subtle contrast between the old building fabric and its new use. You can view the artworks across four floors with more than 2,600 square meters of exhibition space, as well as in two courtyards, which provide room for large installations and a café. The collection includes dedicated rooms for twelve international artists who created new works specifically for the museum, among them Rebecca Horn and Francesco Clemente. The offerings are rounded out by works by major names such as Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, and Gerhard Richter, which document the development of modern art since the postwar era.