Civic Museum housed in a massive palace with beautiful arches, high windows and painted ceilings. Walls of each room are differently painted. The collection is well curated. However, lighting at the paintings gallery and the overall maintenance of the building were not that great. Friendliness of the staff made up to it. There is lot to see and enjoy at a slow pace. Definitely worth the ticket price of €10. Tickets could be purchase from the reception counter.

Absolutely brilliant museum - I got in free for being in my early 20's too. Very interesting mixture of historic architectural, artifact and artistic pieces. Definitely worth a visit, even just to see the castle and it's grounds.

Exellent archeological department, nice, but not big pinakoteka, lapidarium in inner yard. Good museum shop.

Beautiful castle with a very nice museum on the inside. Full priced ticket for the civic museums is 10€

NICE MEDIEVAL CASTLE.

The Visconti Castle of Pavia (Castello Visconteo di Pavia in Italian) is a medieval castle in Pavia, Lombardy, Northern Italy. It was built after 1360 in a few years by Galeazzo II Visconti, Lord of Milan, and used as a sovereign residence by him and his son Gian Galeazzo, first duke of Milan. Its wide dimensions induced Petrarch, who visited Pavia in the fall of 1365, to call it "an enormous palace in the citadel, a truly remarkable and costly structure". Adjacent to the castle, the Visconti created a vast walled park that reached the Certosa di Pavia, a Carthusian monastery founded in 1396 by the Visconti as well and located about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) to the north. In the 16th century, an artillery attack on Pavia destroyed a wing and two towers of the castle. The frescos that entirely decorated the castle rooms are today almost completely lost. The castle had been the seat of the Visconti Library until its transfer to Paris in 1499. Today, it hosts the Pavia Civic Museums.

I walked around all this castle and enjoyed very much. Great atmosphere!

Great place to spend a few hours! Great history, art, pottery and much more.

Amazing museum. The guides are very knowledgeable and explain everything.

The Visconti castle was quite cold inside and a lot of areas were closed. Some of the descriptions were difficult to read due to a small font. There were some descriptions written in Braille too.

Visconti Castle is a nice place to go to spend maybe 2-3 hours in. Firstly the garden around the castle is very nice and serene (free to access), to enter the castle itself you need a ticket. The reason I gave this 4 stars is that the ticket is €10 per person which is not at all reasonable, and adding to that there is no discount for students (at least that’s what the lady said when we asked). The castle is a museum as well with nice and interesting pieces of history, including some ancient Egyptian artifacts (which caught me by surprise). The architecture of the castle itself is beautiful, it apparently has 4 floors but we could only access the ground and first floor (which has nothing but locked doors). On the ground floor you can enter the “museum” part of the castle. All in all a nice place to visit, but it felt kind of dead and boring sometimes. And I would not come here again simply because of the unreasonable price, only suitable for a one-time visit.

Would not allow toilet use without buying a ticket to museum! Could have been a mistake on their part !

Super calm and composed place 😀 great for self relection

cheap, interesting, lots of exhibits and a great way to see the castle. got slightly lost, you do need ESP to navigate your way round, but really enjoyed it

Very beautiful building, not hard to enter, all history is shown, convenient and quiet place

It's a magnificent place and both really well preserved and adapted as a museum space. The experience would be much better though if the place was cleaner and a souvenir shop was better equipped (I'm off the opinion that a good museum gift shop is a part of a museum visiting experience). Also the signs and directions could be made more clear

We went to the children's park which was frankly dismal. Most of the free apparatus were covered in police tape and off limits (who knows why?) , the park was dirty and unkempt. So surprising in a city like Pavia. It would take so little to make this a whole lot better.

Just stunning Roman artifacts beautifully displayed. The modern donated art collection was also beautiful. Very impressive

Amazing place. My great great great great great.... Great grand uncle's palace! I felt right at home. Amazing history and architecture.

Unfortunately the castle was closed; it looks great from the outside!

Amazing Castle and Amazing Tour Interactive Experience inside this Magnificent Unique Historical building; 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Nice 😊