Museums and Geology

Elba is an island with a thousand year old history and culture. Therefore, it is worth it to visit one of the many museums. The museums are located in the communities.

Visit: Napoleon Villa San Martino Elba Island - Portoferraio
The isle of Elba is well noted in Italy and the world over for it's natural beauty, and its richness of mineral ores found beneath the surface, Its notoriety is also bound to a name: Napoleon Bonaparte ....

Visit: Napoleon Villa dei Mulini Elba Island - Portoferraio
Napoleone Villa's - The isle of Elba is well noted in Italy and the world over for it's natural beauty, and its richness of mineral ores found beneath the surface, Its notoriety is also bound to a name: Napoleon Bonaparte ....

Visit: Civic Archeological Museum of Linguella - Portoferraio
The museum is housed inside the Fortress Medicea of Linguella. Inside one can find amphoras from the Archaic Era, anchors, naval equipment from wrecks, and relics from the Roman times found the Villas Linguella, Capo Pero and delle Grotte ....

Visit: Roman Villa in Elba Island - Portoferraio
In the Roman Ages, the Gulf of Portoferraio was the site of two villas used as vacation homes for wealthy Roman families. The ruins of another are visible near the Tower of Martello, next to the Archeological Museum of Portoferraio ....

Visit: The Medici Fortress in Elba Island - Portoferraio
The construction of the Medici Fortress began in the beginning of April 1548 on the orders of Cosimo I, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, with the consent of Carlo V, King of Spain who was exercising an active protection of the Principality of Piombino ....

Visit: Open Air Museum Italo Bolano Elba Island - Portoferraio
Created by Italo Bolano in 1964, the open air museum is found in the heart of Elba in the Etruscan and Napoleonic valley of San Martino. The 24 monuments by Elban artists live in harmony with 10,000 sq. mt. of typical Mediterranean plants ....

Visit: Museum of farming Arts in Marciana - Marciana
The museum houses objects and materials from the farming culture of the Isle of Elba. The exhibits includes numerous utensils of varying types that illustrate a past farming culture of which the tools for winemaking are most interesting ....

Visit: Museum  Alfeo Ricci - Capoliveri
Nel 2002 il Comune di Capoliveri ha allestito un museo di minerali grazie alla collezione iniziata da Alfeo Ricci negli anni Trenta del Novecento e sviluppata dai suoi eredi, in precedenza ospitata a Rio nell'Elba ....

Visit: Archeological Museum of the Mining District - Rio nell'Elba
The central theme of the museum is the richness of the mineral deposits found and used on Elba. The exhibit follows a chronological course that begins with the Copper Age and finishes in the Middle Ages ....

Visit: The Minng Museum Gente di Rio - Rio nell'Elba
The collection contains around 200 samples hailing from the mining zones of eastern Elba. There are numerous examples of noted rarity and of scientific value, but its is best known for offering a complete sampling from, what we consider to be an open-air musuem, Elba.

Visit: Museum Agricolo Sapere - Porto Azzurro

Sapere Archeological Museum - Founded in the 1980's, the museum, located inside the Sapere Agricultural Company, was begun with a collection by the Sapere family owners of the company ....