Editing Modena (section)

===Museums===
{{Main category|Museums in Modena}}

====Museum Palace====
The Museum Palace, on the St. Augustine square, is an example of civil architecture from the Este period, built as a Hostel for the poor, together with the nearby Hospital in the late 18th century. Today it houses the main museums of Modena:
* [[Estense Gallery]], with works by [[Tintoretto]], [[Paolo Veronese]], [[Guido Reni]], [[Correggio]], [[Cosmé Tura]] and brothers [[Annibale Carracci|Annibale]] and [[Agostino Carracci]]. The most famous works are the two portraits of Francis I d'Este, a sculpture by [[Gian Lorenzo Bernini]] and a canvas by [[Diego Velázquez]].
* [[Biblioteca Estense|Estense Library]], one of the most important libraries in Italy.
* Museum of Medieval and Modern Art.
* Municipal Museum of [[Risorgimento]].
* Este Headstones Museum.
* Roman Lapidary Museum.
* Graziosi Gallery of Plaster Casts.
* City Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

The Estense Gallery and Library have reopened on 29 May 2015 after the [[2012 Northern Italy earthquakes|earthquake of 2012]]. The Gallery has been completely restored but some pieces are still damaged and thus cannot be seen.

====Museums of the Cathedral====
Opened for the [[Great Jubilee]] in 2000, the Museum of the Cathedral houses a rich collection of artistic heritage, in particular liturgical ornaments and furnishings. Apart from the finds of the cathedral building site by Wiligelmus and Lanfranco, such as romanesque metopes and roof decorations, in the Lapidary there are also reliefs, sculptures and inscriptions of the Roman, Medieval and Renaissance era found in the cathedral area during the restoration works between the 19th and the 20th century.

====Museum Enzo Ferrari====
Inaugurated on 10 March 2012, the [[Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari|museum complex]] includes [[Enzo Ferrari]]'s birthplace and a futuristic automotive design gallery, painted in the yellow that Enzo Ferrari chose as the background for the Prancing horse on his logo. The exhibition gallery was designed by the famous architect [[Jan Kaplický]], who suddenly died in 2009, and carried on by his associate and loyal assistant Andrea Morgante.

The interior features a multimedia display of pictures, unpublished films and precious mementoes of Enzo Ferrari's life as a man, driver and car-maker throughout the 20th century.

The Exhibition Gallery houses a flexible mounting representing story, figures, places and races of the Modenese sport motor racing.

====Museum of Collectible Cards====
Founded in 1986 by Giuseppe Panini, who then decided to donate his collection to the city, the [[Museo della figurina]] was opened to the public on 15 December 2006. It is located inside the Santa Margherita Palace, which also houses the Delfini Library and the City Gallery.

The Museum houses several collections, including, apart from the classic stickers, cigarette cards, letter seals, matchboxes and calendars, all of which represent a very important historical document of the development of picture cards throughout the years.