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The work is displayed as if it were in a private house, with furniture and fabrics appropriate to the pieces on show. The glassware and ceramics are also of high quality. The Neue Galerie is a pleasure to visit and a tribute to its founders. There is a comprehensive bookshop offering scholarly works as well as souvenirs.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/20847 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/20404
It's not on the tourist trail but worth visiting for a half day, especially for the Museum of Costume which is small but outstanding. There you find many beautiful traditional costumes and textiles, roomsets showing objects from daily life and spooky sheepskin outfits and masks worn at the local festivals.

Unfortunately the Museo d'Arte is closed on Mondays, when we visited but it houses modern art and sculpture from Sardinia's best known artists. You can get a taste by looking at the outdoor sculptures in Piazza Satta which commemorate the life of local poet Sebasiano Satta.

Stop for a coffee nearby at Caffe Tettamanzi on Corso Garibaldi and admire the mirrored interior painted with cherubs, where struggling local artists would meet in the past.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/20404 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/17919 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/17919 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/16206 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/16206 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/15695
Highlights include an outstanding group of Italian, French and Flemish paintings from the later Middle Ages donated by a local benefactor, a group that has been strengthened by the addition of two panels by Mantegna. Other very good pieces come from succeeding centuries and include work by Rubens, Rembrandt, Boucher, Monet and Rodin. Altogether this is a first rate collection. The museum is set in a fine garden, and nearby is a huge 200-year-old Cedar of Lebanon.

Across from this tree and behind glass there is a stuffed elephant, once part of Barnum's Circus. This beast died while the circus visited Tours, just before World War I, and was promptly de-boned, stuffed and mounted. The result on show here is somewhat bizarre and looks like a very large, grey, hot-water bottle with four legs and a trunk. Worth a look, but the museum is the highlight.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/15695 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/13137 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/13137 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/13122 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/13122 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/8616 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/8616 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/8412 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/8412 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/4277 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/4277 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/3199 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/3199