The Art Gallery of Fano was established, with the Archaeological Museum, in 1898; it is placed in the three floors of the north-east wing of the Malatesta Palace, and it picks one of the finest collections of paintings in the Marche region. Inside there are works by local school, by the Venetian, Bologna and Rome school, collected over a span of time between the fourteenth and the twentieth century. The tour starts from the Fireplace Room, at the first floor, where you can admire the paintings of the fourteenth and fifteenth century, among which stands out the altarpiece of the Madonna and Saints attributed to the Venetian painter Michele Giambono and the beautiful canvas in which appear the Virgin and the enthroned Child with Saints by Giovanni Santi. In the Great Hall you could find paintings dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth century, mainly coming from religious buildings. Through this room you can reach two other rooms, one of which was called Basin Hall because of a basin originating from the Renaissance that came from the San Paterniano Abbey. Continuing on the tour you will meet the Morganti room where you can admire the works of the Sebastiano Ceccarini painter, native of Fano.
The visit ends in the last room that exposes a pottery collection made between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, and other contemporary works, including works by Clemente Alberi, Giovanni Pierpaoli, one of the most important Fano painters in the second half of the nineteenth century.