The Francesco Borgogna Museum is located in the Palazzo Ferrero and houses the most important Piedmontese painting collection after the Galleria Sabauda (Savoyard Gallery) in Turin. Fancesco Borgogna was a philanthropist and art collector from Vercelli. In 1882 he bought the neoclassical Palazzo Ferrero and turned it into a house museum. After his death in 1906, he stated in his will that the Palazzo Ferrero should be preserved as a house museum. The Francesco Borgogna Museum now houses around 800 works, including certificates of the Vercelli school from the Renaissance, paintings by Titian, Carracci, Bernardino Luini. Decorative art works such as Roman mosaics and Dresden porcelain enrich the collection.