Palazzo Mansi is an outstanding example of merchant houses of Lucca, this house-Museum. At the end of the 17th century by the then owners of the building have turned it into a "service class" house, restored in prevailing at the time the Baroque style.

Palazzo Mansi, a "living" witness to the long history of the family of Muncie, which since the 16th century were engaged in agriculture and trade, constantly increasing its status and improving the status of. The building of the late 16th century was created by combining preexisting towers and in 1616, the year purchased by Ascanio Muncie. Half a century later, the sole heir of Ascanio — Rafaello — made a number of further acquisitions, thus becoming the owner of the whole block. Raffaello wanted the building was not only a residential home and working office, and this desire became dominant in the transformation of the Palazzo. At the end of the 17th century luchessi architect Mazzanti has carried out the restoration of the building, making it more entertaining: ground floor rooms were decorated in a lush Baroque style, and to get it on the monumental staircase. Other rooms were converted into apartments, ceilings and vaults frescoed with allegorical images, referring the viewer to the history of the family of Muncie. However, the facade of the building has preserved its Renaissance appearance is austere.

In the second half of the 18th century, a new extension of the Palazzo Mansi have been taken to make the building a more modern form. Tapestries and Drapes in the alcoves were set in order, living rooms have been renovated, and the kitchen is modified. At the same time, on the order of Luigi Mansi loggia on the first floor was expanded, giving the internal facade of the monumental and more harmonious appearance.

In the 18-19-th centuries the Palazzo Mansi was the center of social life of Lucca and its owners, Raffaele Mansi and Camilla Parency, were appointed by the Minister and the first lady-in-waiting at the court of ELISA Bonaparte and Felice Baciocchi. Raffaello Muncie, Orsetti, the only heir of the family fortune, was the first who opened the Palace and its art collection to the public. After his death in 1956, the year the building was sold to the state.

Today in the summer apartments of the Palazzo Mansi, decorated with frescoes from the 17th century, conferences, and in former warehouses opened a weaving workshop. A whole wing of the building on the first floor is occupied by an art gallery, which exhibits works of Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany, as well as pictures of various art schools 16-18 th centuries.