The Museo di Storia Patria is located in the center of the city of Trieste. The museum was created to enhance the Italian city history. The Museum was founded in 1925 to preserve documents, relics, prints and paintings on the history and folklore of the city. Originally the museum was housed in the Villa Basevi, but due to bombing during the war the collections were moved to Palazzo Morpurgo. In the exhibition it is possible to admire the objects that bring back to the imperial Trieste of Maria Teresa and Giuseppe II up to the new entrepreneurial bourgeoisie. The collection consists mostly of paintings, silverware, sculptures, medals and various artifacts that trace the history of the city. Do not miss the collection of Socrates Stavropulos from Trieste of Greek origin who donated works of painting, sculpture and various drawings made by Italian and European artists from antiquity to the twentieth century. In the complex of works concerning Italian sculpture of the twentieth century, two personalities of considerable artistic depth stand out: Libero Andreotti and Marcello Mascherini. Among the works of Italian and European portrait painters of the nineteenth century, Giuseppe Tominz, Franz Eybl, Hans Canon, Anton Romako stand out; rural subject with paintings by Francesco Paolo Michetti; Umberto Veruda from Trieste are widely represented, with about forty drawings and oils, and Adolfo Levier. Of great value is the fabric room where the rich textile collection of the Civic Museums is exhibited, in particular the creations of Anita Pittoni, a Trieste textile designer of the early twentieth century.