This guide is the first to be offered as a tool for consulting and supporting the visit to the various Institutes that, since 2016, have been united under the name of the Pilotta Monumental Complex. The gigantic and severe architectural mass conceals within it majestic environments, which house an extraordinary variety of collections: the Archaeological Museum, with artifacts from prehistory to the early Middle Ages; the National Gallery, famous above all for the works of Correggio and Parmigianino, but rich in works of art attributable to a wide variety of eras and schools; the Palatine Library, with its enormous heritage of ancient books, printed and manuscript, drawings and engravings; the Bodoni Museum, which exhibits the tools and masterpieces of the great typographer. The heart of the Complesso monumentale della Pilotta is the great Farnese Theatre, built at the beginning of the 17th century and of a size and splendor famous throughout the world. Born in the eighteenth century, the Institutes of the Pilotta reflect a clear encyclopedic Enlightenment project aimed, from the very beginning, at the growth and education of citizens...