The museum is very clean and put together. There some in English as well as an indoor 17th…read morecentury ship you can go into. There is also a sub you can enter as well.

Great museum for a day in Genoa. We came in on the cruise ship and didn't have to much time, so did…read morea highlights, quick walking tour. Enjoyed the museums collection.

We bumped into this place at lunchtime and they offer a great buffet 12.30 to 14.30, Mon to Fri for…read morea very reasonable price (12EUR). They had a great selection of all sorts of well cooked foods and you help yourself, which is great when your Italian is rudimentary or if you don't eat meat and still want something nice to eat. Don't go too late or the sweet dishes all get eaten up. You have to go through the front part of the cafe down the back to get to the buffet. Everyone was very friendly and welcoming to hungry tourists - everyone else seemed to be locals which is a recommendation.

The (Emanuele) Luzzati Museum is located in Porta Siberia, within the Port Antico. The place looks…read morelike a fortress both inside and out, and with a whimsical statue near the entrance that put Gayle and I in the appropriate bemused and intrigued mood. We were here for the "The Dark Side of Luzzati" exhibition and enjoyed it and with other artistic protagonists thrown in as a bonus. This place is especially recommended for creative dreamers and other out-of-the-box types of all ages.

This is not Venice, as this Palazzo Ducale (Doge's Palace) is a little more pedestrian in terms of…read moreits rich Genova empire history and wider public use. The only tickets required are for the museum contained within and for the wide variety of cultural events that are held here. And all Gayle and I had to do was walk in from either the street or the Piazza De Ferrari.

The palace itself is very beautiful, with the typical architecture of the region. But what earns…read morethe five stars is definitely the Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera exhibition. I went with low expectations, loving their work but not expecting to see much. Boy was I wrong! They had almost EVERYTHING! Cristina, Frida's sister, loaned so many paintings for this exhibition I was overwhelmed with joy. They had works from every stage of her carreer, reproductions of his murals and many paintings from him as well. They had staged a reproduction of her dresses and they even had the casket she used during recovery from her accident with the hammer and sickle painted on it. Simply amazing.