The Gallery of Modern Art of Genoa , also known as GAM , owes the collection of the initial nucleus of its collection to Prince Odone of Savoy and to subsequent bequests and purchasing campaigns.

The Gallery of Modern Art is located in the sixteenth-century Villa Saluzzo in Nervi and preserves more than 2,500 works including paintings, sculptures, drawings and engravings, dating from the early nineteenth century to the current era.

Among the numerous artists present here we remember : Nicolò Barabino, Ernesto Rayper, Alfredo D'Andrade, Vincenzo Cabianca, Plinio Nomellini, Rubaldo Merello, Fortunato Depero, Felice Casorati, Filippo De Pisis, Francesco Messina, Eugenio Baroni, Arturo Martini, Renato Guttuso , Mario Mafai, Corrado Cagli. The GAM also boasts the richest public selection for the en-plein-air painting of the Gray School.

Here there are works by Tammar Luxoro, Alfredo D'Andrade and Ernesto Rayper; one of the largest selections of Rubaldo Merello's pointillist work and two famous and imposing canvases by Plinio Nomellini.

In the context of its culture , the plaster cast gallery of the great sculptor Giulio Monteverde is notable: here more than fifty sculptures are collected, and, in the room dedicated to the work of Arturo Martini , the life-size La Convalescente, a wonderful terracotta work, is kept. Among the foreign artists documented in the collections are some of the significant protagonists of international post-impressionism including the American Richard Miller and the Parisian artist Lucien Simon.