Villa Paolina - the former summer residence of Paolina Bonaparte, sister of the French Emperor Napoleon, located in the resort town of Viareggio. Today, the villa housed the Archaeological Museum Carlo Alberto Blanca, opened in 1986, Lorenzo Viano Picture Gallery and Museum of Musical Instruments Giovanni Chuffreda (the last two of the museum was opened in 1994 year).

Lorenzo Viano Picture Gallery was created in 1974, and only twenty years after the opening was moved to Villa Paolina. Its exhibits are arranged in chronological order and include paintings, drawings, sketches and slides, equipped with plates from the description. A total of 4 halls of the villa is kept 64 works of contemporary art.

Museum of Musical Instruments Giovanni Chuffreda takes six halls of Villa Paolina, which displays about 400 exhibits, including poshetta - a tiny "pocket" violin of the 17th century, the Neapolitan mandolin of the 18th century and a collection of instruments from all over Europe.

Archaeological Museum Alberto Karl Blank, also known as the Museum of Blanca, was opened in 1986. It exhibited artifacts found on the territory of Versaliyskoy Riviera on the Tuscan coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea - handmade stone objects, fossils of the Paleolithic, Neolithic pottery, copper and bronze Iron Ages. In general, the exhibits give an idea of ​​human evolution over a long period before the invention of writing.

The villa Paolina, is considered one of the most prominent buildings of Viareggio. It was built in the northern part of the city, by the sea, in 1822, the year the project Giovanni Lazzarini. First, the villa was the summer residence of Paolina Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister, then it housed the boarding school, and later - the secondary school. During the Second World War, two-storey villa has been hit hard, but in the 1980s, has been carefully restored. Today, tourists in addition to three museums attract three garden villas. North Garden communicated to the villa and is used as a living room under the open sky - it is decorated with flower beds, fruit trees and vineyards. South garden is separated from the villa the road - on its territory there is a small vegetable garden and another vineyard. Finally, the so-called "natural garden" surrounded by a beautiful beach.