Donizetti Museum

The Donizetti Museum (Museo Donizettiano) is a cultural site in Bergamo, in Lombardy, Italy.

The centenary in 1897 of the composer's birth was marked in Bergamo by an exhibition at the Palazzo delle Scuole in Contrada Tre Passi, and the unveiling of the Donizetti Monument in Piazza Cavour.

[1] The Rota Basoni family had looked after the composer during the last months of his life.

In 1902 Giovanna Ginevra Rota Basoni, widow of Giovanmaria Scotti [it], donated what the family possessed at Palazzo Scotti [it] of the composer's belongings to the Congregation of Charity of Bergamo; these included the furnishings of the room where the composer died, a portrait painted in 1848 by Giuseppe Rillosi [it], autograph scores, books and personal belongings.

It also shows the personal life of Donizetti, and, through autograph scores, the composer at work.