The Civic Museum and the Piczure Gallery of Fano are housed in the ground floor rooms of the Malatesta Palace. You could access to the Court Malatesta from the XX Settembre central square through the majestic Cybo Borgia Arc, built in the late fifteenth century, in which has conserved the archaeological section of the museum that displays relics from the Neolithic to the Roman imperial period with flints, fibulae, bronze, pottery, oil lamps, inscriptions, sculptures and mosaics, among which stand out the statue of Emperor Claudius and the female head with Ottavia hair of the late first century BC. On the first floor, you could find the extensive collection of ancient coins dated at the fifteenth and the eighteenth century and the magnificent series of medals made by Matteo de Pasti Malatesta in 1446, the author of the many valuable reliefs of the Rimini Malatesta Temple.
On the second floor you can visit the large Malatesta hall and the , which houses masterpieces ranging from the fourteenth to the twentieth century, and also works by masters such as Simone Cantarini, Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri, Mattia Preti, Domenichino, in addition to spectacular paintings, the Annunciation by Guido Reni executed in 1620, and the Guardian Angel by Guercino. On the mezzanine floor there is a room devoted to the production of the ceramics of Fano, with a series of pharmacy jars from the ancient hospital, decorated with the characteristic “Pesaro pink”, made ​​in 1803 by Casari and Callegari manufacturing and some other table pieces of porcelain made in 1782 by the manufacture of the Venetian Geminiano Cozzi.