The Clarence Bicknell Library and Museum was wanted by the English Clarence Bicknell, was planned in 1886 and it was the first museum of Western Liguria. Inside there is a unique big hall, used by the Library as a reading hall with the depots of the Institute.
It keeps over 85,000 books and 1,300 magazines of archeology, local history and art. In addition there are: mouldings, drawings, pictures, which represent over 14,000 prehistoric graffitos discovered by Bicknell on Mount Bego; archeological recoveries of the 2nd - 3rd century A. D.; a collection of pictures and an important one of butterflies of the 19th century.
In the garden of the Museum there are some paving-stones of a Roman road from Albintimilium and an amazing Ficus Magnolioides grows here. Recently, the Institute received an important collection (oil paintings, water-colours and sketches) by the painter Pompeo Mariani (Monza 1857 - Bordighera 1927), set in the nearby Nino Lamboglia Centre.
General info
International Institute of Ligurian Studies. Office hours: Mon - Fri: 8.30am - 1.00pm and 2.00pm - 5.30pm. Library: Mon - Fri: 9.30am - 1.00pm and 1.30pm - 4.45pm. The institute is closed during the week of the Virgin Mary's Assumption.
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