
The Interdisciplinary Regional Museum of Messina is one of Sicily's essential cultural attractions. The museum houses a vast collection of Italian art and treasures in a slew of chronologically arranged and colour-coded exhibition spaces, ranging from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance and Mannerism eras to the Baroque era typified by Caravaggio, through the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
With works by some of the great Italian masters such as Antonello of Messina, Caravaggio, Annibale Carracci, Mattia Preti, Girolamo Alibrandi, Vincenzo Catena, Francesco Laurana, and many more, this is truly one of Italy's elite art institutions.