The Museum, than from 1976 has assumed the denomination of Regional Museum of Messina , it is developed in twelve knows them that contornano a courtyard where they were arranges to you varies architectonic fragments and ancient coming from sculptures from the churches and the palaces of the city before the earthquake of 1908.

The foundation of the Regional Museum laughed them to far away 1806. With the denomination of Civic Museum the first exposure to Messina of works of art with disposizione.di a museale type was had, the ancient Monastero di San Gregorio of was the evocative center. The Monastero came destroyed from the earthquake of 1908 and the many... too many works of art followed the same destiny.

Artistic collection of great relief came cancelled in order always one. All that that was possible to recover, after the terrible one sisma, came arranged in former filanda a mail in the smoothed one of S. Salvatore of the Greeks to the beginning of the Litoranea that leads to Lagos of Ganzirri and Faro.

This center, to the beginnings above all, was not answering to the modern criteria of exposure and guard of works of art and, for this, in the course of the years the participations of restructure of the stable one have been many. In years ' 80, with a new one and more adapted structural participation, it is proceeded to more giving to the complex a espositivo order decidedly appropriated.

In the years succeeded to you, finally, it is proceeded to the completion of the construction of the great museale complex that today occupies the old adjacent area to the stable one.