Bologna Museums and Galleries Walk
Bologna · Italy
- Audio guide
- 4 languages
- Offline
Follow seven stops that bring together Bologna’s museums, a gallery, and a library. You’ll move from Palazzo d’Accursio and the Bologna Civic Archaeological Museum to Museo di Palazzo Poggi, the Bologna National Art Gallery, the Museo Civico Medievale, and MAMbo. The Biblioteca Comunale dell’Archiginnasio adds a library to the route, broadening the way you encounter Bologna’s cultural collections. Take this walk for a focused succession of places where art, archaeology, history, and books meet.
The walk
Stops 1–6 of 7. The rest are in the app.
Palazzo d'Accursio
A town hall where medieval government, royal ceremony, art, and a modern library share one palace.
Civic Archaeological Museum of Bologna
A museum stop for Bologna’s layers, from Etruscan Felsina to Roman Bonōnia and beyond.
Archiginnasio Public Library
A former religious-book collection became Emilia-Romagna’s largest library, holding Bologna’s memory in print.
Palazzo Poggi Museum
A university museum where Bologna’s eighteenth-century science is reconstructed around its original collections.
Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna
A gallery in Bologna, Italy.
Medieval Civic Museum
A fifteenth-century palazzo where Bologna’s medieval history meets weapons, coins, and illuminated manuscripts.
Stop 7
- 1 more stop in the app
Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places
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How a walk works
1 more stop in the app
This page shows the first 6 of 7 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.
Pick a walk
Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.
Pocket your phone
Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.
Listen as you arrive
On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.
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A guide who talks
Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.
The route, followed
A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.
In four languages
English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.
Or build your own
Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.
The unglamorous things
Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.
No signal needed
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Picks up where you left off
Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.