Dogana Palace

The Museum-Picture Gallery of Molfetta is located in the premises of the Episcopal Seminary, in the historic center of the city. The museum houses finds from various excavation campaigns carried out in the wake of the " nineteenth-century enthusiasms ", in the Pulo di Molfetta and in other surrounding archaeological sites.

Its majestic facade was completed in 1744 after years of work started in 1610 and continued in the eighteenth century. On the façade, at the top, there is a large marble statue of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus. It became a Cathedral in 1785, as the Cathedral of San Corrado had become insufficient for the increased population.

Created in 1998 in memory of Raffaele Cormìo (1883-1952), a xylologist of Molfetta origin, it is a museum, unique in southern Italy, dedicated to the tree and to wood in its physical and technological characteristics, in the alterations and defects.

Set up in 1996 in the Palazzo Comunale, the collection includes about 60 works by artists, many from Molfetta. Alongside internationally renowned masters, such as Renato Guttuso, the exhibition includes works by artists from Molfetta starting with Michele and Liborio Romano, Franco d'Ingeo, Natale Addamiano, Franco Valente, Michele Paloscia and Anna Rita Spezzacatena. An entire room is dedicated to Leonardo Minervini where 11 paintings are exhibited including the " Portrait of Minervini " made by his master Carlo Siviero in 1936.

Palazzo Giovene is a sixteenth-century building located in Molfetta, today the seat of the municipal administration. Built by the "de Luca" family it then passed to the "Esperti" family who in 1772 gave it to the "Giovene". The building houses the seat of the Municipal Council, and a Contemporary Art Gallery where works by important local artists are kept. On the ground floor is a collection of models in medium-large scale of the most characteristic means of transport pulled by horses that were typical of the territory before the spread of the automobile.

It includes a remarkable collection of ex-votos and many other objects deriving from donations from private citizens, including statues and paintings, nativity scenes from all over the world. There are also the vestments and missals of the celebrations for the elevation to the Papal Basilica by Cardinal Mayer and Don Tonino Bello.