Visitors are advised that access to the Castle Square and to the Museums of the Castel will be subject to the following changes.

Castle Closures
To safely allow the dismantling operations of the exhibition "Terremoti e Trasformazioni", the West Wing of the Ancient Art Gallery (rooms 8-13) and the Parliament Hall (Salone del Parlamento) will be closed to the public:
From Tuesday, October 20 to Friday, October 23, 2026.
To accomodate a scheduled event, the Parlament Hall and the West WIng of the Ancient Art Gallery (rooms 8-13) at Udine Castle will be closed on the 7th November 2026 at 1:00p.m.

On these dates, a reduced-rate ticket will apply -> Discover opening hours & ticket options

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Through detailed archival research, the curators of the Civic Museums of Udine have reconstructed the provenance of the funeral carriage which has belonged to the Municipality of Udine since 1931 and is preserved in the storage of the Ethnographic Museum of Friuli.

Most likely it is the same carriage that, on 2 July 1914, transported the body of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Habsburg during the historic homage that the city of Trieste paid to the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne in the turmoil that paved the way to the outbreak of the First World War after the Archduke's assassination in Sarajevo.

The management of the Civic Museums of Udine hopes that the carriage can soon be restored with the contribution of some patrons.

The Illustrious Guest: Giambattista Tiepolo’s "Last Judgment"
10 October 2026 – 17 January 2027

Thanks to a collaboration with Gallerie d’Italia and Intesa Sanpaolo, the Galleria d’Arte Antica del Castello di Udine presents its ‘Illustrious Guest’: Giambattista Tiepolo’s Last Judgment, from the Bank’s art collections.
This prestigious loan provides an opportunity to explore the development of Tiepolo’s style and technique by placing the Last Judgment (dated by scholars to between 1730 and 1747) in dialogue with works created by the Venetian master for Udine and now on display at the Galleria d’Arte Antica del Castello.
The work was probably conceived as a preparatory model for the ceiling decoration of a prestigious building, as part of a project that was either never realised or may subsequently have been lost. This possible intended purpose helps us understand the composition of the canvas: Tiepolo arranges the scene as though the viewer were looking at it from below, with the figures arranged in a spiralling movement that draws the eye towards the centre, where the figure of Christ is positioned.
The Last Judgment temporarily takes the place of the celebrated Consilium in arena, Tiepolo’s masterpiece, which is on loan to the exhibition Giandomenico Tiepolo (1727–1804). A New World, taking place during the same period at Gallerie d’Italia – Vicenza, in Palazzo Leoni Montanari.

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