MUSEUMS AND CULTURE
	Trieste is very rich in museums: it possesses collections of both great artistic value and historical curiosities. It was the fashion of patronage in the XIX century which enriched the town with collections such as Pasquale Revoltella's donation (1869), which is certainly the most valuable one. He was a very active businessman who often personally took part in the materialization of important works. Suffice it to mention the opening of the Suez Canal, of which he was one of the main financers; so much so that he eventually took up the vicepresidency of the Company. Neoclassicism, Verism, Romanticism, Impressionism, Divisionism, Fauvism, Futurism, Abstractionism: currents of all periods are represented. Since one of the clauses of the legacy envisaged the need to enlarge the section of contemporary art, the Museo Revoltella has recently undergone an extension of the building which houses the collection, on a design by architect Scarpa. Among other museums, the most important one is the Civico Museo di Storia ed Arte (Town Museum of History and Art) on the Colle di San Giusto, where it is possible to admire a collection of archaeology, art, history, economy, craftmanship, ethnography and various curiosities, and which, besides the ancient, medieval and modern lapidaries, presents documents ranging from the Pre-history to the Roman Age, with a medieval appendix. The Civico Museo Sartorio, which was originally a private residence of the XIX century, retains its peculiar feature as the dwelling of a family belonging to the Trieste upper class, always open to refined taste and the collection of objets d'art. Besides a rich library, it contains a splendid collection of drawings and a marvellous oil sketch by Tiepolo. A series of apartments on the first floor is still intact, with the original decorations of a period that gradually developed from Neoclassicism into the ecleptism of the historical styles. The Museo Morpurgo is also worth mentioning, as it still contains the donor's sumptuous furniture. Other town institutions are lodged in the same building, namely the Museo di Storia Patria (Museum of Italian History), with various paintings, prints and objects connected with particular events of the town, and the Stavropoulos Collection, a rich collection of works by Italian and Hungarian artists, of the XIX and XX century in particular. Finally a remarkable collection is that of the Fondazione Scaramangà, created on the will of the last member of the old Greek families in order to keep the 6,500 pieces that make it up united, "always at the service of the town and scholars". Palazzo Biserini (1802) in Piazza Hortis contains the Civico Museo di Storia Naturale (Town Museum of Natural History), founded by E. Kock in 1846 and the Biblioteca Civica (Town Library). The latter has 400,000 books approximately, some of which are of great value. The collection of the codes of the town statutes, starting from the one of 1318, is remarkable. Moreover, the Petrarchian codes are invaluable; the 84 volumes were bought and then donated by legacy to the town by Domenco Rossetti. The Civico Museo del Mare (Town Sea Museum), too, has a remote origin (1874). It is sited in the recently restored building of the Lazzaretto di San Carlo (San Carlo Lazar House), where there is a collection of models, relief models, documents, instruments, chart of various periods and relics of Giuseppe Ressel, the inventor of the propeller. A curious collection of electric and steam-powered locomotives is held in the old railway station of Campo Marzio, now no longer in use, from which the lines to Central Europe departed. The Museo Etnografico di Servola (Servola Ethnographical Museum) is also peculiar: it collects objects of daly use as memories of traditions and customs. The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica (National Gallery of Ancient Art) is sited in Palazzo Economo, in Piazza Libertà. This Museum has a large number of works from the Venetian and Lombard school, in addition to the works by Crespi, Guardi, Bernini and Canaletto. (Diana and Actaeon, attributed to Lucas Cranach the Old) The monument of Guglielmo Oberdan has been erected in Piazza Oberdan, where the Irredentist from Trieste was arrested and then executed in 1882. The same building also contains the Museo del Risorgimento, a rich collection of evidence of the events which eventually led to the annexation of Trieste to Italy. Finally, in the outskirts, in San Sabba, there is the Risiera, a building used for rice-husking up to 1913, which was then turned into the only Nazi extermination camp in Italy, now a national monument since 1965.