Inaugurated in 2006, the picture gallery is devoted to the figure of Carlo Servolini (1876–1948), painter and engraver of Livornese origins, whose engravings catch the visitor’s eye in the first hall.

While the central corridor presents works by Tuscan and Italian artists from the 1950s and 1960s (including ones by Renato Guttuso, Domenico Purificato, Gastone Breddo, Corrado Carmassi, and Giancarlo Cocchia), a third hall displays the Livorno and Tuscan season from the 1920s to the 1960s. Since 2008 the picture gallery has arranged a series of cultural initiatives aimed at promoting the Tuscan figurative season close to the work of Servolini, starting from an exhibition on his son Luigi, the woodcut artist, followed by themed or solo exhibitions.

In the ten thousand-square-metre park, in the surroundings of Villa Napoleonica di San Martino, are to be found thirty monuments by the artist Italo Bolano (1936) of Elba.

Crafted in ceramic, steel and glass, they are immersed in a Mediterranean vegetation consisting of mimosa, eucalyptus, myrtle and oleander.
Designed and created by the artist in 1965, the museum park also offers spaces for conferences, pottery workshops, open-air theatre, and the possibility to visit the studios. Environmental works by Italo Bolano are also on public display in a number of villages on the Isle of Elba.

The initial core of the collection was formed during years of activity by the Cassa di Risparmi bank of Livorno.

Acquired by the Foundation, the collection then developed with great coherence and unity with the intention of documenting certain aspects of twentieth-century Tuscan art — and of Livorno in particular. In the seat of the Foundation — renovated and adapted as an exhibition space since 2013 — the works are visible, by appointment, in the rooms on the third and fourth floors. The core of the display — relevant in both qualitative and quantitative terms — consists of works by Alfredo Müller, Vittore Grubicy de Dragon and Benvenuto Benvenuti, and is lent greater importance with the addition of the portrait of Grubicy sculpted in marble by Adolfo Wildt.

The rooms then reveal, in chronological or thematic order, works by numerous artists from Livorno, including Llewelyn Lloyd, Ludovico Tommasi, Ulvi Liegi, Giovanni Bartolena, Oscar Ghiglia, Luigi Servolini and Osvaldo Peruzzi.

Displayed in several venues since the late nineteenth century, in 1994 the municipal collections were brought together in the nineteenth-century Villa Mimbelli, which has been restored in such a way as to preserve the original décor and furnishings it had as a private dwelling.

The collection centres on art from Livorno and Tuscany dating between the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. It unfolds chronologically, starting from the second floor, with the large canvases by Giovanni Fattori and other Macchiaioli painters (Silvestro Lega, Telemaco Signorini, Vincenzo Cabianca, and Giovanni Boldini).

Also located on the second floor are rooms devoted to artists from the turn of the century, such as the Tommasi (Angelo, Adolfo and Ludovico) and the two famous portrait artists Vittorio Corcos and Michele Gordigiani.
The season of Divisionists is illustrated by the works of Vittore Grubicy de Dragon and Benvenuto Benvenuti, as well as by important paintings by Plinio Nomellini.

Twentieth-century art is instead exemplified by artists such as Ulvi Liegi, Oscar Ghiglia, Giovanni Bartolena and Mario Puccini.

Finally, the Museum is currently housing some important Italian artworks of the latter half of the century that belong to municipal collections and are awaiting a permanent place. From time to time, exhibitions are held in the halls of the villa, as well as in the former granaries, located in the gardens.

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