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The Foundation was created in 1966 in memory of Stefano Antonio Morcelli (1737-1821) and the lawyer Pietro Bartolomeo Repossi (1776-1854);the respective founders of the library and the picture gallery located in the historical centre of Chiari in ancient buildings donated by Monsignor Pietro Faglia in 1776.As such;it constitutes a synthesis of the town's cultural history.The Biblioteca Morcelliana;which opened to the public in 1822;was built up around its founder's bequest (1817) in favour of the "studious young people of Chiari" and has since been expanded through private and public donations.It now boasts some 70;000 printed works;including 56 incunabula;thousands of 16th-century works and rare editions of the 17th and 18th centuries as well as manuscripts;parchments and private and public archives of the 13th-20th centuries.It was in 1854 that Repossi left his rich collection of art to the library;thus providing the original nucleus of the present-day museum.Once again expanded through private and public donations;the Pinacoteca Repossi is today a prestigious repository of artistic and cultural heritage with works thematically exhibited.The paintings section comprises over 100 works of different genres and sizes covering the period from the 15th century to the 21st.The prints section has 2;300 items exemplifying the work of the various major schools and individual masters of Italian and European graphic art as from the 15th century;including a very rare print of Antonio Pollaiolo's Nude Figures in Combat;Andrea Mantegna's Bacchanal;the Deposition from Dürer's Small Passion;some works by Lucas van Leyden;Venus and Adonis by Giorgio Ghisi;The Flight into Egypt by Cantarini;some items from Tiepolo's Capricci series and works by Rembrandt.There are numerous engravings of the French;Flemish;English and Italian schools from the17th;18th and 19th centuries as well as work by 20th-century and contemporary artists like Max Klinger;Giuseppe Guerreschi;Floriano Bodini;Tono Zancanaro;Fausto Melotti;Federica Galli and Carlo Pescatori.The sculpture section presents works from the last two centuries and there is a special section of works in plaster by local artists.
The Museum;named after Giovanni Rambotti;eminent citizen famous for his collections of artifacts from Polada pile-dwelling;was opened in 1990.
The museum;because of his geographical position in an area rich in Bronze Age evidences;offers a wide survey of the prehistoric cultures of the Benacense district.
The exceptionality of this region;probably one of the most important in Europe in regard to the archaeological humid areas;comes from human deposits;nowadays submerged and set not far from the lake's shore or stratified in the peats of the inframorainic basins.
The museum highlight is a plough made of oak;dating back to Early Bronze Age (ca.2000 BC);discovered in a peat layer in 1978;stuck between the piles of a Lavagnone pile-dwelling.The museum is situated in the cloister of an ex-monastry (S.Maria del Carmine;1472;Bearfooted Carmelitans Order).The contiguous church;nowadays deconsecrated;was named after S.Maria de Senioribus.The cloister;rectangular in shape with 5 arches on each side end 20 columns;was finished al least in 1547.The building;now of public property;was renovated in1984.
The Museum is housed in some of Manerbio premises - once used as guest quarters - the wing of the historic seventeenth-century Palazzo Luzzago;the current town hall.
The first exhibition;prepared to crown a series of exhibitions designed to publicize the research undertaken by the local Archaeological Group;was inaugurated in 1985 and occupied a large hall on the ground floor;but now;after a temporary closure due to the adjustment current safety standards of the new premises granted by the City;the museum has two large halls with a total area of 500 square meters;as well as areas used for an educational workshop for schoolchildren;an office for the staff of the museum - with specialized library - and deposits for the sorting of the finds and their storage.
The reorganization of the exhibition;designed by the architect Andrea Perin and edited by Dr.Portulano assisted by Dr.Odone;was constructed to allow maximum mobility is being subjected to educational apparatus:display cases on wheels;light panels on media that slide along tracks fixed to the walls;educational publications concerning the preparation from time to time to visit.
One of two large rooms is organized into several sections arranged in chronological order;each characterized by a specific color and a logo printed on its panels;within which the material from a single complex settlement are used to create a route on the diachronic human history of the area examined.
The second room will be reserved for temporary exhibitions;also of archaeological topic;sponsored by the Museum itself or carried out in collaboration with other museum and aimed to frame individual local situations within larger areas.
The findings that periodically take turns in shows;the result of research and archaeological excavations carried out since 1983 by volunteers from the Archaeological Group under the direction of the Archaeological Superintendence of Lombardy;are representative of human presence in the territory of Lower Central Brescia;with its epicenter in the town Manerbio;starting from the Mesolithic period (IV millennium BC) until the eighteenth century of our era.
Alla fine del '400 il pericolo delle incursioni turche spinse il vicerè Juan Dusay a potenziare le fortificazioni di Cagliari.Per rafforzare il lato settentrionale della cinta muraria del quartiere di Castello furono costruiti un antemurale e un fossato a ridosso della torre medievale di San Pancrazio.Questo sistema difensivo risultò presto superato con la diffusione delle armi da fuoco e fu modificato successivamente dagli ingegneri militari.Nell'Ottocento divenne ospedale delle Carceri ed in seguito deposito della Soprintendenza Archeologica.Per molti anni il complesso di San Pancrazio è stato utilizzato come deposito di materiali provenienti dagli scavi della Soprintendenza archeologica;mentre un progetto redatto da Raffaello Delogu negli anni Trenta;prevedeva l'utilizzo di questi ambienti per scopi espositivi.Successivamente l'importanza storico-monumentale del complesso ha condotto a ripensare la sua funzione in termini di destinazione museale.Con i fondi del gioco del Lotto sono state finanziate le opere necessarie alla realizzazione di uno spazio espositivo per le collezioni acquisite al patrimonio dello Stato;recuperando le valenze architettonico-difensive del complesso.Per salvaguardare l'unitarietà spaziale;si è scelta una struttura costituita da elementi portanti in acciaio;reggenti un solaio in doghe in legno;che consente di apprezzare gli elementi originari delle antiche strutture
Fondazione PinAC historic collection of children's drawing;started in the 1960.
It is a dynamic;international museum that collects;classifies and analises the creative forms of expression of children from 54 Countries.It collects;analyses and classifies the 6000 drawings expressing children's creativity.It is a research centre of the children's ways of drawing that takes into consideration also the "electronic brushes" offered by new technologies.It is a centre for creativity where people learn to discover and respect the rights of all mankind;each nation with its peculiar artistic and cultural characteristics.It promotes the approach of children;boys and girls;to art and creative expression.It offers teachers and educators training programmes for aesthetic and intercultural education.It promotes and organises meetings and atéliers for parents;teachers and curious adults;in order to develop artistic and expression talent at any age and favour the approach to different forms of art.
Chiesa e Convento di S.Francesco d'Assisi;è stato acquisito fin dagli anni 70 per i compiti istituzionali di laboratorio di restauro;di conservazione e di sede espositiva;tanto che ha ospitato per un biennio un corso della Scuola di Restauro dell'Opificio delle Pietre Dure;di recente i corsi di formazione dei tecnici del restauro organizzati dalla Regione Calabria;e numerose mostre e manifestazioni degli anni passati.
Inaugurated on 4 October 1990;the Museo Didattico della seta presents an array of equipment;tools;documents and fabric samples bearing witness to the tradition of textile production that made Como the Italian city of silk.This truly unique museum of machinery is a place of culture with a complete;educational programme accessible to all.The initial project;focused on equipment;has been developed through refurbishment and the creation of new exhibition rooms;a multimedia library and new services in such a way as to harness the collections of artefacts;fabrics;samples and technical drawings built up over the years and expanded by numerous donations.Como alone can display the processing of the precious material that generated its wealth and charm because Como alone has such a history of silk manufacture and culture developed through the extraordinary skills of its artisans and industry from 1850 to 1950.
While opening its doors to the general public and organizing specific exhibitions in the field of textile production;the museum is involved in the purchasing;restoration and maintenance of new items capable of illustrating the various phases of silk manufacture and hence performing an educational function aimed at deeper understanding.It has also produced its own documentation;in particular a general catalogue in Italian and English and a short guide;which prove very useful to the many foreign visitors and students that pour in every year.
The Archaeological Museum has been housed in Palazzo Giovio;the urban residence of the counts of that name;since 1897.Dating back to the late Middle Ages;the building underwent some alterations in the 16th century but took its present shape in the 18th with Giovan Battista Giovio;who also had the gardens laid out with the construction of the steps and the nymphaeum.The museum is divided into various sections;focusing primarily on the history of the Como area as illustrated by archaeological items since the earliest traces of human occupation.
The prehistoric and protohistoric section provides as particularly well documented overview of the Golasecca culture;which developed in the area of Como in the first millennium BC.The Roman section presents material from the town of Novum Comum;founded by Julius Caesar;and illustrates the most salient aspects of the everyday life of the time.
Some rooms are devoted to collections built up in the 19th-century;including those housing prehistoric finds;Egyptian items;Greek vases;gems;coins and small bronzes.
Built in the 17th century by the prelate Ulpiano Volpi;a member of the Roman Curia;the Palazzo Volpi was used as a courthouse until the 1970s.It was designed by the architect Sergio Venturi;born in Siena but Roman by adoption;best known for his catafalque of Pope Paul V.It now houses the Como Art Gallery with works chronologically divided into four sections.The Medieval section presents a large number of Carolingian sculptures from the church of Sant'Abbondio as well as Romanesque and Gothic sculptures and frescoes.The Renaissance section offers a selection of Paolo Giovio's collection of portraits of illustrious men and significant items connected with the completion of the cathedral;such as stained glass windows;sculptures;tapestries and wooden models.The Paintings section presents a broad overview of the artists active in Como from the 16th century to the 19th with large altarpieces from churches suppressed in the Napoleonic era and paintings from private collections.The 20th-century section presents photographs;paintings;sculptures and furniture prototypes documenting the salient moments of artistic creativity in Como from the Futurism of Antonio Sant'Elia to the abstract art of the Como Group and the synthesis of the arts attempted by Ico Parisi.
Our Physics Laboratory was first started By Alessandro Volta in 1775;he was headmaster and teacher of Physics in the school;located at the time in the previous Jesus College.The first machines date back to 1793.Between 1804 and 1818 Swiss neoclassic architect Simone Cantoni transformed the Monastery of S.Cecilia into a building suitable to host the present Lyceum and the town cultural facilities;a library;a botanic garden and an art gallery;on the model of Brera.
The Physics Laboratory (today a library) resembles the Pantheon with its large vault;circular at the top.In 1838 opposite the church;the Laboratory of Natural Sciences was equipped;today in need of repairs.Today the Museum of Physics can be found in the northern part of the Lyceum;built between 1820 and1824 by Swiss architect Biagio Magistretti.
The instruments donated by G:B:Gattoni;a friend of Volta's;make up the heart of the collection.
The building inaugurated in 1928 in a splendid position on the banks of the River Lario was designed to house the surviving scientific instruments of Alessandro Volta after the fire of the great exhibition held in Como in 1899 to celebrate the centenary of the invention of the battery.Reconstructions of those destroyed are also exhibited.Funds were provided by the cotton manufacturer Francesco Somaini and the edifice was designed and built by the architect Federico Frigerio in the neoclassical style with explicit references to the Pantheon.The rich array of equipment;machinery and instruments exhibited offer visitors a clear and complete overview of the range of Volta's studies and research;from the invention of the battery to his fundamental contributions in the fields of electricity and the study of gases and their properties.The upper loggia instead presents Alessandro Volta as a citizen of Como with his family and the awards he received.
The Civic Museum of Erba is situated in the Villa Ceriani-Bressi;built in the late 700s by an architect named Gianluca Gavazzi della Somaglia upon a pre-existing 5th century building of which lowered archways remain in some rooms.
The museum arose in 1961 by will of the teacher Fernanda Isacchi so that it would constitute an intermediate reality between the main museums of Como and Lecco and considering the geographical location of Erba;at the border of the Valassina and the beginning of the hilly Brianza;it stands out as the museum of high Brianza territory and of the "Larian Triangle".The museum was completely renovated in 1999;creating a path that goes backwards in time from the modern times to the geological ages.The main stages of the local history and prehistory and of the "Larian Triangle" are documented in the eight rooms of the museum.The outfit of Canzo tombs (Copper Age and Bronze Age);a lombardian sword with silver damascening decorated handle and a map from Teresian times are the main and most precious finds.In the courtyard there are two "massi-avello" (tombs excavated in erratic rock;dating back to the IV century and the VI century AC;spread in the "Larian Triangle" and the Canton Ticino) and some sarcophagus with relative roofs upon.
Located in the old stable ''al Portichetto'' where the throughbred Tornese (borned in 1952) .Transformed the building in a Museum of simple stick horses;sweet toy horses;made in papier machè or metal;or sophisticated mechanical models;smart wooden toy horses over 600 esamples which date from the late 1700's to the mid 1900's.Each horse has a name and a story to tell to our visitors.Works of art;some of them recently carved in wood by Stevenson Brothers in England.
A unique chance to show your childrens how their granparents and fathers played with simple toys.
The musics comings from Goffredo Colombani's carousels and the paintings by Wanda Broggi do enrich the museum .
And..to continue travelling in the Lehmann Room we find the precious toys manufactured by Lehmann in Brandeburg and Nurberg from 1889 for more then 100 years;the tin toys which were most loved by children from 1900's and by collectors today.
Madonna del Ghisallo has a long and fascinating history linking it to the sport of cycling.This famous hill;with its spectacular views;is in fact an iconic location for cyclists of all ages and categories;both competitive and non-competitive.For this reason;thousands of cycling enthusiasts come up to Ghisallo each year also to visit its 17th century Shrine containing a painting of the Blessed Virgin Mary;known as the Madonna del Ghisallo;declared the patroness of cyclists.
Beside the shrine rises the Cycling Museum.A museum devoted to the men and women who have used and continue to use the bicycle in everyday life and in sports;our museum has the goal to spread worldwide the 2 wheels scene:the athletes;bicycle manufacturers;organisers;sports club directors;journalists and many other perhaps less well-known but equally important participants.
The Ghisallo Museum collects the most interesting magazines and volumes regarding cycling preserved in our specialized library at academic and cycling lovers disposal for consultations.
Periodically we promote cultural and artistic events in order to set out the different sides of the cycling world.
Our Museum has also a Book shop with the most interesting book releases and many gadgets .On the last floor you can find a conference room and 2 laboratories for didactic workshops.
Villa Carlotta is a museum and botanical garden along Como Lake located in a sunny and mild area.Thanks to the suitable location at the end of the XII century Marquise Giorgio Clerici decided to build a magnificent villa surrounded by a beautiful Italian-style garden with statues;stairs and fountains.The second owner was Gian Battista Sommariva;he acquired the villa at the beginning of XIX century and embellished it with masterpieces of Canova;Hayez and Thorvaldsen.
The property has been given to Carlotta by her mother as a present in occasion of the marriage with George II;duke of Sachsen Meiningen.Keen about the botanic;he developed and increased the importance of the garden.Nowadays villa Carlotta is famous not only for its azaleas and rhododendron blossom;but also for the ancient collection of camellias;for the exotic and rare plants;monumental trees and flowers.
Istituito nel 1986 e allestito nella sede attuale dieci anni dopo;il Museo del Bijou di Casalmaggiore si trova nel piano seminterrato dell’ex Collegio Santa Croce;edificio costruito dai Padri Barnabiti verso la metà del XVIII secolo;è un museo specializzato del patrimonio storico-industriale in cui sono conservati oggetti d’ornamento e accessori prodotti dalle diverse fabbriche di Casalmaggiore tra la fine dell’Ottocento e gli anni ’70 del Novecento.Oltre alle tipologie tradizionali della bigiotteria (spille;gemelli;bracciali;cinture;orecchini;ciondoli);sono presenti portacipria;portarossetto;portasigarette;occhiali da sole;medaglie devozionali;distintivi.A seguito della completa conversione della produzione attuata dall’azienda alla metà degli anni ’70 -che comportò la chiusura delle linee della bigiotteria-;l’intero campionario sarebbe andato disperso se non fosse intervenuta l’iniziativa meritoria dell’Associazione Amici del Bijou di Casalmaggiore (costituita in prevalenza da ex-dipendenti e presieduta dal dott.Francesco Zaffanella) che si attivò per la costituzione di un museo di archeologia industriale entro cui riordinare la raccolta.Il patrimonio della FIR fu donato al Comune nel 1985.
The Municipal Building houses one of the main Strings Collection in the world.These instruments outline the history of the greatest violin making school ever known;born and developed in Cremona from the first half of the Sixteenth Century to the first half of the Eighteenth Century.- Violin:"Carlo IX di Francia";Andrea Amati;1566
- Viola:"La Stauffer";Antonio and Gerolamo Amati;1615
- Violin:"L'Hammerle";Nicolò Amati;1658
- Violin:"Il Clisbee";Antonio Stradivari;1669
- Violin:Francesco Ruggeri;1675
- Violin:"Il Quarestani";Giuseppe Guarneri (Andrea's son);1689
- Cello:"ex Cristiani";Antonio Stradivari;1700
- Violin:"Il Cremonese 1715";Antonio Stradivari;1715
- Violin:"Il Vesuvius";Antonio Stradivari;1727
- Violin:"Lo Stauffer";Giuseppe Guarneri (called del Gesù);1734
- Violin:"Lo Stauffer";Enrico Ceruti;1868
- Violin:Simone Fernando Sacconi;1941
The main part of the Ala Ponzone City Museum was created thanks to a donation by the marquis Ala Ponzone (1842) and has been enriched with works from former churches and successive legacies.Since 1928 it has been based in Palazzo Affaitati;an example of 16th century Cremonese architecture.The picture gallery is currently being prepared;with works by mainly Cremona artists from the 15th to the 20th centuries but there are also works by famous painters such as Caravaggio and Arcimboldi.There are also oriental pottery;enamel and ivory objects.Special areas have been created for the most important cultural events of the town.The Stradivari Museum;housed in the noble;eighteenth-century rooms of the Palazzo Affaitati;is organised in three sections:
- an itinerary that explains the construction of a contralto viola in accordance with the tradition of the classical Cremonese school;the equipment for the contralto viola of 1690 was chosen for this first section;as it is one of the most complete sets among those kept within the museum;the itinerary has also been studied and organised for the blind and those with poor eyesight;
- the group of instruments which represents mainly Italian violin makers active from the second half of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century;
- the Salabue-Fiorini Collection;displayed in sixteen showcases containing 710 artefacts;originating from the workshop of Antonio Stradivari.
A typical closed-courtyard farmhouse;the Cascina Il Cambinino vecchio;situated on the northern outskirts of the town;has been a museum since 1978.
The group of buildings;some of which may go back to the 15th century;are organized around a threshing floor;the place where the harvested crops were treated before being stored in the barns.The museum displays examples of peasant working tools and objects in everyday use.
The Museum of Rural Life of Offanengo (Cr);municipally owned;is based on the farmhouse on the corner Tesini - Via della Rocca.It's a building of exquisite form the first arcade-twentieth century;covered by a wooden truss;restored in the structure architecture but not yet equipped for a modern exposition;given the current lack of funds by the municipality.Currently in the adjacent house of employees are reconstructed rooms in the home country;the different trades of carpenter;blacksmith;saddler etc;cycles of corn;flax and livestock.The arcades are home to a series of wagons and old farm tools;while other material is stored in the warehouse inventory.The museum has a library;does research and publications on the history and customs of the country;organizes exhibitions and meetings;collecting testimonies from local people and events;has a collection of holy pictures.The museum;recognized by the Region on 7.7.2010 is part of the Museum System Cremonese and Museum System between Adda and Oglio.
Founded in the 1970s by Casimiro Becchi and a group of volunteers;the Museo del Lino of Pescarolo and Uniti in the province of Cremona was inaugurated with its present exhibition layout;designed by Fabrizio Merisi;in 2004.Classified as a demographic;ethnological and anthropological museum;it is managed by the Associazione Museo del Lino and has over 9;000 items illustrating rural life on the plain before the advent of agricultural mechanization.The ground floor presents equipment used in the linen production cycle;from the sowing of flax to weaving;and some beautifully embroidered wedding-chest items.
The rooms on the upper floor house a section on the breeding of silkworms;with two of the very few throwing machines now known to exist;and sections on the preservation of food and lighting as well as working tools and objects of everyday life.The museum also has a rich collection of artefacts mostly dating from the 19th century.