Joyce Museum

James Joyce arrived in Trieste on October 4th, 1904 to leave it for good in July 1920 after about 11 years of stay (excluding the years of the First World War, when he repaired in Zurich). Here, his two children, Giorgio and Lucia, were born. Here, he planned and wrote Dubliners and a Portrait of the artist as a Young Man, as well as the first three chapters of his masterpiece, Ulysses. But, perhaps what is mostly crucial, here he came in touch with people, languages and cultures foreign to the Dublin of his childhood and that greatly enriched his experience and his perspective. The Museum Joyce tells all these experiences: retraces his frequent changes of residence, reconstructs his efforts to make ends meet - as an English teacher, opera singer, seller of Irish tweed, cinema promoter - shows his contacts with various traditions and cultures: Jewish, Greek, Serbian Orthodox and with the people and with the dialect of Trieste embodied by some extraordinary personalities, first of all, the writer Italo Svevo.