Museo Civico di Sansepolcro

The Museo Civico di Sansepolcro or Museo Comunale is the town or comune art gallery. It is housed in a series of linked palaces, including the medieval former Palazzo della Residenza, the Palazzo dei Conservatori del Popolo (or Comunale) and the Palazzo del Capitano o Pretorio, located on Via Niccolò Aggiunti #65, near the center of Sansepolcro, formerly Borgo Santo Sepolcro, in the Province of Arezzo, region of Tuscany, Italy. The museum was founded in 1975. History The building was occupied by the government offices of the town by the 14th-century. Over the next centuries, it was converted to private housing. It incorporated the former Monte Pio, an early example of a Monte di Pietà In 1456 it was converted into the Palazzo dei Conservatori , and is decorated with a famed Resurrection fresco by Piero della Francesca . The detached fresco is visible through a glass viewing area. The museum also houses Piero's polyptych of the Maddona della Misericordia altarpiece , with lateral panels of saints, and two fresco fragments.