The heritage of the Civic Museums of Domodossola has undergone successive rearrangements, and since 2021, the paintings are partly exhibited on the second floor of the new Civic Museums in Palazzo San Francesco.
During the 1880s, many stone sculptures arrived at the museum from the surrounding areas, through purchases and donations. The marble courtyard represents an open-air museum with a nineteenth-century conception.
On the facades of the palace, there are eight marble coats of arms embedded. In addition to these, three fleurs-de-lis of France, also made of marble, are incorporated on the north side.
It is quite unusual for a private palace to have a chapel for the celebration of Mass. The della Silva family, also due to their nobility, had patronage over a chapel in the conventual church of San Francesco.
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