The Museum of the Christmas creche in the Empire also known as the Municipal art gallery and is located in Palazzo del Collegio 19th-century building in Piazza del Duomo. Renovated in 2008-m to year, it consists of four exhibition halls. The spacious main lobby put on display two huge paintings of 17th-century paintings and artist Francesco Bruno. There you can watch a video in which author tells about the history and restoration of Nativity scenes. The Nativity scenes are stored in a large glass display case in the other room. In the two side rooms exhibited collection of the City art gallery.

Christmas manger – the main exhibit Stucco Hall in the Museum of the Empire consist of 113 wooden statues from the 18th century, made by the Genoese sculptor Anton Maria Maragliano for a festive Nativity scene family Berio. I must say that Maragliano, started by a student in the sculpture Studio Arata and improve their technique under the guidance of Maestro Torre, was a prolific and very popular artist. He and his students worked on these wonderful painted oil figures from 1724 to 1741-th years. And for every visitor to be able to appreciate the skill of Maragliano the administration of the Museum organized a special multimedia show with music, bright colors and moving images.