The Galleria Nazionale di Cosenza is located in Palazzo Arnone, a majestic building built in the sixteenth century in the historic center of the city. In its exhibition spaces, there is a path that shows significant moments of art from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century with works by painters born in Calabria, such as Pietro Negroni, Marco Cardisco, Francesco Cozza, and Neapolitan artists who influenced local painting. Of great interest is the core of works by two protagonists of the seventeenth century: the Calabrian Mattia Preti and the Neapolitan Luca Giordano. The section of graphic works by Umberto Boccioni documents the artist's activity from 1906 to 1915, from the years of training to the full affirmation of Futurism; of particular interest are the studies that reveal the genesis of "La risata," exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Thanks to donations and purchases, the museum's collection includes sculptures by Umberto Boccioni, Giorgio de Chirico, Emilio Greco, Antonietta Raphaël, Pietro Consagra, Mimmo Rotella, and Bizhan Bassiri. The museum exhibits, on loan, the Banca Carime collection, now owned by Intesa SanPaolo, which from the small panel depicting "Christ on Calvary and the Cyrene," attributed to Lazzaro Bastiani, to the pastel "Gisella" by Umberto Boccioni, retraces the major artistic currents from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. The contemporary artistic expressions of the territory are documented by the works of Cesare Berlingeri, Giulio Telarico, and Alfredo Pirri. In 2025, the Contemporary Art collection was enriched with works from seizures carried out against organized crime.