Museo Joyce

This small, but highly focused museum is very well worth a visit when in Trieste, it examines the details of James Joyce's lengthy pre WW1 sojourn in Trieste, and his briefer return after the Great War had ended. There are some fascinating exhibits, and very revealing anecdotes. I found this museum brought home to me the degree of the fracture that his self imposed exile from Ireland represented in that era, plus the clearly often chaotic nature of Joyce's lifestyle and it's impact on his family, it's certainly not all Roses around the door evidently, and it quite rightly sheds valuable light on his wife Nora, and very justly demonstrates the degree to which his oft forgotten brother Stanislaus was a great support for his brother and his family. Highly impressed and greatly appreciated from this Irish visitor to Trieste.

Highly interesting museum (I speak for the LETS museum as a whole, not just for the Joyce one) - very diverting exhibition on different literates that are connected with the beautiful city of Trieste and its literature scene in general. I really liked it a lot!

Very modest little museum, would benefit greatly from additional material on Nora Barnacle (and Gorgio and Lucia Joyce) as her influence on Joyce’s work is barely alluded to.

Sadly, this was not a museum. This place is more like an office, organizing the annual Bloomsday, and giving a lecture to the small audience. I went all the way to trace James Joyce, but was terribly disappointed. It is great to have a place like this to remember and honor Joyce, but please don't call it a museum. People get a wrong expectation.

Nice "old school" museum about Joyce's stay in Triest.

A tiny little museum dedicated to Joyce and his close friend, Italian writer Svevo. The highlight was chatting with the docent, who is a native of Trieste who lives many years in the States. She was knowledgeable and friendly.

Nice little museum in the heart of Trieste. Entrance is free. One room in the museum is dedicated to Italo Svevo, one room to James Joyce and two further rooms to Francesco Petrarca and Enea Silvio Piccolomini. It's nothing extraordinary, but the museum includes informative Videos and the staff gave me further information on the subjects, including a free little guided tour on Petrarca, which was very interesting and extraordinarily professional. Furthermore, the museum offers free leaflets with thematic city itineraries, for example with places important in the lives of Svevo or Joyce, or with the city's architectonic highlights. I recommend a visit...

Small museum with a few exhibits of documentary materials in two rooms (one dedicated to Svevo) within the municipal archives building. Care has gone into the display but probably only of interest to real Joyce fanatics.