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Emilia-Romagna
Region
2010-2012
2012 edition

in Emilia-Romagna
Region 2010-2012

Istituto per i Beni Artistici Culturali e Naturali
Museums and Cultural Heritage Service
Director
Laura Carlini
Project Coordinator
Giulia Pretto
Our warmest thanks to all museums
that gave their contribution with texts and photos.
Graphic design and paging up
Laura Bortoloni
Matteo Guidi
Translation
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Index
Card number Quality Museum
Museums in
Bologna Province
Bentivoglio
1. Istituzione Villa Smeraldi
Museo della Civiltà Contadina
Bologna
2. Casa Carducci
3. MAMbo Museo d’Arte Moderna
Bologna
4. Musei Civici d’Arte Antica:
Collezioni Comunali d’Arte
5. Musei Civici d’Arte Antica:
Museo Civico d’Arte Industriale
e Galleria Davia Bargellini
6. Musei Civici d’Arte Antica:
Museo Civico Medievale
7. Museo Civico Archeologico
8. Museo Civico del Risorgimento
9. Museo del Patrimonio
Industriale
10. Museo di Palazzo Poggi
11. Museo Ebraico
12. Museo Europeo
degli Studenti
13. Museo Internazionale
e Biblioteca della Musica
14. Museo Morandi
14.bis Casa Morandi
Budrio
15. Museo Civico Archeologico
e Paleoambientale
16. Museo dei Burattini
17. Museo dell’Ocarina
e degli Strumenti Musicali
in Terracotta
18. Pinacoteca Civica
Domenico Inzaghi
Castenaso
19. MUV - Museo della Civiltà
Villanoviana
Dozza
20. Museo della Rocca
di Dozza
Imola
21. Museo di San Domenico
Collezioni d’Arte della Città
22. Palazzo Tozzoni
23. Rocca Sforzesca
Monterenzio
24. Museo Civico Archeologico
Luigi Fantini
Pianoro
25. Museo di Arti e Mestieri
Pietro Lazzarini
Pieve di Cento
26. Pinacoteca Civica
Porretta Terme
27. Museo della Moto
e dei Ciclomotori DEMM
28. Museo Etnografico LabOrantes
San Giovanni in Persiceto
29. Museo Archeologico
Ambientale
Sede di San Giovanni
in Persiceto
30. Museo del Cielo e della Terra

Museums in
Ferrara Province
San Lazzaro di Savena
31. Museo della Preistoria
Luigi Donini
Sant’Agata Bolognese
32. Museo Archeologico
Ambientale - Sede di Sant’Agata
Bolognese
Argenta
33. Ecomuseo:
Museo della Bonifica
34. Ecomuseo:
Museo delle Valli
Cento
35. Galleria d’Arte Moderna Aroldo
Bonzagni
36. Pinacoteca Civica
Il Guercino
Comacchio - Lido di Spina
37. Casa Museo
Remo Brindisi
Ferrara
38. Castello Estense
di Ferrara
39. Museo Civico di Storia Naturale
40. Museo d’Arte Moderna
e Contemporanea “Filippo
de Pisis”
41. Museo della Cattedrale
42. Museo dell’Ottocento
42.bis Museo Boldini
43. Palazzina Marfisa d’Este
44. Palazzo Bonaccossi
e Museo Riminaldi
45. Palazzo Schifanoia
Mesola
46. Museo del Bosco
e del Cervo della Mesola
Ostellato
47. Museo Civico
del Territorio
Museums in
Forlì-Cesena Province
Museums in
Modena Province
Bagno di Romagna
48. IDRO Ecomuseo delle Acque
di Ridracoli
Bertinoro
49. Fondazione Museo
Interreligioso di Bertinoro
Borghi
50. Museo e Biblioteca Renzi
Cesena
51. Museo Archeologico
52. Pinacoteca Comunale
Cesenatico
53. Casa Museo Marino Moretti
54. Museo della Marineria dell’Alto
e Medio Adriatico
Forlì
55. Armeria Albicini
56. Musei San Domenico
57. Museo Etnografico Romagnolo
Pergoli
58. Pinacoteca Civica Melozzo degli
Ambrogi
Galeata
59. Museo Civico Mons. Domenico
Mambrini
Longiano
60. Fondazione Tito Balestra Onlus
Santa Sofia
61. Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea
Vero Stoppioni
Savignano sul Rubicone
62. Museo Archeologico
del Compito Don Giorgio
Franchini
Bastiglia
63. Museo della Civiltà Contadina
Campogalliano
64. Museo della Bilancia
Carpi
65. Musei di Palazzo dei Pio

Museums in
Parma Province
66. Museo Monumento
al Deportato politico
e razziale nei campi
di sterminio nazisti
Castelfranco Emilia
67. Museo Civico Archeologico
“Anton Celeste Simonini”
Fiorano Modenese
68. Museo della Ceramica
Formigine
69. Museo e Centro
di documentazione
del Castello
Mirandola
70. Museo Civico di Mirandola
Modena
71. Galleria Civica di Modena
72. Museo Civico Archeologico
Etnologico
73. Museo Civico d’Arte
74. Museo della Figurina
Montese
75. Raccolta di Cose Montesine
Nonantola
76. Museo di Nonantola
Spilamberto
77. Museo dell’Aceto Balsamico
Tradizionale
Berceto
78. Museo Martino Jasoni
Collecchio
79. Museo Ettore Guatelli
80. Museo del Pomodoro
Felino
81. Museo del Salame di Felino
Langhirano
82. Museo del Prosciutto
e dei Salumi di Parma
Museums in
Piacenza Province
Neviano degli Arduini
83. Museo Uomo-Ambiente.
Il territorio nel tempo
Noceto
84. Castello della Musica:
Museo del Disco
Museo di Liuteria
Parma
85. Castello dei Burattini
Museo Giordano Ferrari
86. Fondazione Museo
Glauco Lombardi
87. Museo Casa Natale
Arturo Toscanini
88. Casa del Suono
89. Museo dell’Opera
90. Pinacoteca Giuseppe Stuard
Salsomaggiore Terme
91. Museo Naturalistico
del Parco dello Stirone
Soragna
92. Museo del Parmigiano Reggiano
Traversetolo
93. Museo Renato Brozzi
Bobbio
94. Museo della Città di Bobbio
Castell’Arquato
95. Museo Geologico G. Cortesi
96. Museo Luigi Illica
Piacenza
97. Galleria d’Arte Moderna
Ricci Oddi
98. Musei Civici di Palazzo Farnese
99. Museo Civico di Storia Naturale
100. Museo di Ornitologia
Amatoriale
Pianello Val Tidone
101. Museo Archeologico
della Valtidone
Travo
102. Museo Civico e Parco
Archeologico

Museums in
Ravenna Province
Museums in
Reggio Emilia Province
Alfonsine
103. Casa Museo Vincenzo Monti
104. Museo della Battaglia del Senio
Bagnara di Romagna
105. Museo del Castello
Cervia
106. MUSA. Museo del Sale
Faenza
107. Museo Internazionale
delle Ceramiche
Lugo
108. Casa Museo
Francesco Baracca
Massa Lombarda
109. Museo Carlo Venturini
Ravenna
110. Museo d’Arte
della Città di Ravenna
111. NatuRa. Museo Ravennate
di Scienze Naturali
Alfredo Brandolini
112. Piccolo Museo di Bambole
e altri Balocchi
Riolo Terme
113. Museo del Paesaggio
dell’Appennino Faentino
Castelnovo di Sotto
114. Museo della Maschera
del Carnevale.
Centro di documentazione
e ricerca
Correggio
115. Museo Civico Il Correggio
Gattatico
116. Museo Cervi
Novellara
117. Museo Gonzaga
Reggio Emilia
118. Musei Civici:
Galleria Parmeggiani
Museums in
Rimini Province
119. Musei Civici:
Museo del Tricolore
120. Musei Civici:
Palazzo S. Francesco
Rolo
121. Museo della Tarsia
San Martino in Rio
122. Museo dell’Agricoltura
e del Mondo Rurale
Bellaria Igea Marina
123. La Casa Rossa di Alfredo Panzini
Cattolica
124. Museo della Regina
Mondaino
125. Mostra permanente
delle Maioliche Mondainesi
126. Museo Paleontologico
Montegridolfo
127. Museo della Linea dei Goti
Montescudo
128. Museo Etnografico di Valliano
Poggio Berni
129. Museo Mulino Sapignoli
Riccione
130. Galleria d’arte moderna
e contemporanea
Villa Franceschi
131. Museo del Territorio
Rimini
132. Museo degli Sguardi. Raccolte
Etnografiche di Rimini
133. Museo della Città
134. Museo dell’Aviazione
Santarcangelo di Romagna
135. MET Museo degli Usi e Costumi
della Gente di Romagna
136. MUSAS
Museo Storico Archeologico
Verucchio
137. Museo Civico Archeologico

From the Latin MUSÈUM,
which in turn comes from
the Greek MOYSEION after
MOYSA (Muse). Originally, a
place sacred to the Muses, or
Temple of the Muses; the word
later indicated an Institute
established by Ptolemy II
Philadelphius in Alexandria
to promote culture and
support men of science and
letters, who lived there thanks
to public funds. Today, it
indicates a gallery or collection
of material noteworthy for its
excellence, rarity, or antiquity.

9 Muses

Foreword
Ezio Raimondi
It is with sincere pleasure that we present this
vademecum to the museums of Emilia-Romagna
that have been acknowledged as “quality museums”,
and have thus joined a novel association of sorts,
a virtuous community that pools institutions
that are quite different from each other, but with
shared characteristics in terms of services offered
to the public, excellent internal management and
organizations, and activities to promote their
collections. For a museum, quality translates into
substance in terms of its ability to attentively adapt to
its users’ needs, as an open, interactive, and constantly
evolving institution.
Of course, what we are documenting today is merely
the first step in a shared journey, which will involve,
over time, many more museums active in our region.
A logo is ready for the first museums, and for all
those that will follow in their footsteps. It was selected
through a painstaking competition which saw the
enthusiastic participation of many young designers
and graphic artists.

The logo, chosen from 70 submitted projects, plays
off multiple associations of ideas, starting with the long
history of an association whose very name alludes to
the nine muses of art and science. The resulting image
– fresh, stylish, and catchy all at once – represents a
precise leitmotif and an excellent viaticum for a new
museum season that can reaffirm the increasingly
self-aware and operational role of these vital hubs
of culture.
Quality must also be the trademark of a style,
of creative efficiency.

9 Provinces

The vademecum of quality
Laura Carlini
Valorising the quality museums of Emilia-Romagna
is the goal of this pocket vademecum dedicated to the
museums that have acquired the status of “accredited
museum”. This is the first nucleus of cultural institutions
that can guarantee the standards of functioning defined
by the Emilia-Romagna regional government with
Regional Council Deliberation n. 309/03 Approval of
quality standards and goals for libraries, historical archives
and museums pursuant to art. 10 of Regional Law 18/00
“Norms regulating libraries, historical archives, museums,
and cultural heritage”.
The museums that obtained the first regional
accreditation, valid for 2010-2012, meet the quality
requisites in the following fields: legal status, financial
structure, facilities and safety & security, staff, collection
management and care (conservation, documentation,
and research), visitor services and relations with the
local communities.
The vademecum comprises a series of brief chapters
that introduce each museum and highlight its salient
characteristics. It is the result of collaborative efforts

with the museum directors, who drafted the brief texts
that present their institutes and highlight their most
distinctive traits: the uniqueness and originality of each
institution; the value of their collections; the innovative
or historic aspects of the buildings that house them
and of the exhibits themselves; the dedication to research,
studies, and documentation; the rigour with which
collections are handled and preserved; the attention given
to involving local communities, educational services,
and the public at large; and relations with the local
territory and urban systems.
In order to distinguish these quality museums, IBC
has created the QUALITY MUSEUM logo, through
a public competition reserved to young artists and
designers working in Emilia-Romagna. The logo, with
its visual identification system, is one of the main tools
to consolidate the image of Emilia-Romagna’s quality
museum system and to ensure maximum visibility
to the accredited museums, by graphically highlighting
their inclusion in this elite group.
Subsequent editions of the guide will include all the
additional museums that have qualified for the quality
designation. The procedure for accreditation remains
open to all of the region’s museums that want to submit
their candidacy, even in future years. The IBC’s Museums
and Cultural Heritage Service, assisted by a working group
made up of representatives from the museum world,
was responsible for bestowing the initial recognitions
and continues its monitoring and encouragement efforts
to develop the regional museum system to its fullest
potential.

137 Museums

in Emilia-Romagna
Region 2010-2012

The quality museums
2010-2012

Piacenza
97-98
99-100
101
92
Pianello
46
Val Tidone
Soragna
121
38-39-40
Mesola
102
70
41-42-42 bis
95
85-86
Rolo
Travo
96
Mirandola
43-44-45
87-88
117
Castell’Arquato
89-90
114
Novellara
91
84
Ferrara
Castelnovo
65
Salsomaggiore
Noceto
di Sotto
94
Parma
116
115
66
Terme
Carpi
35
Bobbio
Gattatico
Correggio
36
47
63
79
118-119
122
Cento
Ostellato
80
Bastiglia
92
120 San Martino
26
Collecchio 81
in Rio
64
46 76
Soragna
Pieve di Cento
Reggio Emilia
71-72
Campogalliano 73-74 Nonantola 32
121
Felino
38-39-40
Mesola
37
70
29
97-98
93 41-42-42 bis
Sant’Agata Bolognese 30
33
85-86
Rolo
82
34
Comacchio
Mirandola 99-100
Traversetolo
43-44-45
Modena
87-88
117
San Giovanni
in Persiceto
1
Argenta
97-98 89-90
114
Langhirano
67
84
Novellara
Piacenza
83
69
Bentivoglio
15-16
99-100
Ferrara
Castelnovo
Castelfranco Emilia
17-18
Noceto
65
Neviano degli
97-98
Parma
di Sotto
Formigine
2-3-4-5
Piacenza
116
115 101 66
Arduini
99-100
68
77
6-7-8-9
Budrio
103
Carpi
35
92
10-11-12
104
Gattatico
CorreggioPianello
78
36
47
Fiorano Spilamberto
19
46
Val Tidone
63
Piacenza
79
118-119
122
Soragna
13-14
Alfonsine
Berceto
Cento
OstellatoModenese
121
Castenaso
14 38-39-40
Mesola
80
bis
120 92
70
San Martino
102 Bastiglia
26
Bologna 31
46
41-42-42 bis
Collecchio 81
95
101
Soragna in Rio
64
76
85-86
Rolo
Travo
Pieve di
109
96 Cento
92 Mirandola
43-44-45
San Lazzaro
110-111
Reggio Emilia
71-72
121
87-88
117
Mesola
108
102
Campogalliano
38-39-40
73-74 Nonantola 32
Felino
Pianello
Castell’Arquato
70
di Savena
Massa
112
Val Tidone
89-90
114
41-42-42 bis 37
93
29
95
85-86
Soragna
Sant’Agata Bolognese 30
Rolo
Novellara
91
84
33
Ferrara Lombarda Lugo
avo
Mirandola
43-44-45
25
121
38-39-40
82
96
87-88
117
102
34 Castelnovo
Comacchio
105
Ravenna
21-22
70
Traversetolo
Modena
San Giovanni
65
41-42-42 bis
Castell’Arquato
Salsomaggiore
Noceto
di Sotto
94 89-90
in 114 Persiceto
1
Parma Argenta
95
66
Pianoro
85-86
20 23 Rolo
Langhirano
Novellara
Travo
116
96
115
97-98
Bagnara Mirandola
43-44-45
91
84
67
Terme
Ferrara
87-88
117
83
69
99-100
Carpi
24 35
Bobbio
Castelnovo
Bentivoglio
15-16
65
Gattatico Castell’Arquato Correggio
89-90
36 114Dozza
di Romagna
47
Imola
Salsomaggiore
Noceto Parma Castelfranco Emilia di Sotto
17-18
Novellara
91
84 63
Neviano degli
Formigine
116
115
66 79
122
Monterenzio
Ferrara
Terme
2-3-4-5
118-119
Cento
Piacenza
Castelnovo
Ostellato
Arduini
68
77
Carpi
80
35
120
65 107
Salsomaggiore
Noceto Bastiglia
Parma
di Sotto 26
Gattatico
Correggio
6-7-8-9
Budrio
103 San Martino
Collecchio 94 81
36
75
64
47
116
115113
66
Termein
Rio
76
Faenza
106
79
122 10-11-12
63
104
Fiorano Spilamberto
19
118-119
Cento
71-72
Pieve di Cento
101
Carpi
55-56
35
80
13-14
Bobbio
Reggio Emilia Alfonsine
Montese Campogalliano
Ostellato
Modenese
73-74 Nonantola 32
92
Riolo
36
47
120
Castenaso Bastiglia
Gattatico
Correggio
63
Cervia
37
92
San Martino 14 bis
Felino
26
29
Terme
57-58
Pianello
79
122
Collecchio 81
Bologna
93
in Rio
6431
76
Sant’Agata 46 Bolognese 30
118-119
33
Cento
53
Ostellato
82
Val Tidone
80
Soragna
Bastiglia 34
Comacchio
Soragna
Pieve di Cento
Reggio Emilia
71-72
54
Campogalliano
Modena
120 San Martino
Forlì
26
73-74 Nonantola 32
109
Felino
San Lazzaro
Traversetolo
San Giovanni
121
64
27
76 121
102
Cesenatico
38-39-40
29
38-39-40
110-111
Mesola
Collecchio 81
37
in 97-98 Persiceto
1 in Rio
Argenta
93
70
108
di Savena
70
Sant’Agata Langhirano Bolognese 30
Massa 41-42-42
112
bis
33
28
67
71-72
49 Pieve di
51
Cento
41-42-42 bis
95
85-86
83
69 95
99-100 Reggio Emilia 85-86 Campogalliano
Rolo
Travo
52Mirandola
43-44-45
Porretta Terme
96
73-74 Nonantola 32
Felino
Bentivoglio
15-16
82
Rolo
Comacchio
Modena
Lombarda
34
Traversetolo
Mirandola
San Giovanni 43-44-45 Lugo
96
87-88
117
25
Ravenna
Castelfranco Emilia 93
87-88
17-18
117
29
123
Bertinoro 30
Castell’Arquato
Sant’Agata Bolognese
33
Neviano in Persiceto degli
21-22
105 1
Formigine Argenta
ato
Cesena
62
89-90
Langhirano114
67
82 Piacenza
2-3-4-589-90
114
34
Novellara 83
69
Arduini
Traversetolo
Novellara
Bellaria 132
91
84
Modena
Bentivoglio
15-16
68
77
6-7-8-9
Budrio
San Giovanni
91
84
Pianoro
20 23
Ferrara Bagnara
103
Savignano sul Rubicone Igea Marina
Ferrara
Castelnovo
in Persiceto
1
133
Argenta
Castelnovo
Langhirano
10-11-12
104
78 24 Castelfranco Emilia
17-18
65
134
101 Salsomaggiore
Noceto
67
Fiorano Spilamberto
19
Neviano degli
65
Salsomaggiore
Noceto
Formigine
Dozza
di Romagna
Parma
di Sotto
Imola
Parma
di Sotto
94
2-3-4-5
83
13-14
69
116
115
Alfonsine 66
Bentivoglio 60
135 15-16
116
Arduini
115
66
Terme
Berceto Monterenzio 68
77
6-7-8-9
Budrio Modenese
Terme
103
Castenaso
14 bis
92 Castelfranco Emilia
136 17-18 Rimini
Carpi
35
107
Pianello
Carpi Longiano
35
Bobbio 10-11-12
Neviano degli
104
78
Bologna 31
Formigine
Gattatico
Correggio
Val Tidone
Gattatico
Correggio
2-3-4-5
Fiorano Spilamberto 36
19 47
Arduini
Soragna
63 Santarcangelo
36
130
The 13-14
79
68
77
San Lazzaro
118-119
122109
79 quality museums
75
122
63
113
Alfonsine
6-7-8-9di
Romagna 110-111 Budrio
121
131
Berceto
118-119
Modenese
Faenza
106
Cento
Castenaso
14 102
Cento
80
bis
55-56 Ostellato
78
80
108
70
Montese 120
di Savena
120
95
59 San
Bastiglia 10-11-12
Fiorano Spilamberto
19
San Martino
Bastiglia
26
Riolo Bologna 31
85-86Martino
Massa
129 112
Riccione 26
64
13-14
50 Poggio Rolo
Travo
Collecchio 81 96
in Rio
76
Alfonsine
Collecchio 81
in Rio
64
76
Terme
57-58
Cervia
Berceto
109 53
Modenese
Lombarda Lugo
Mirandola 124
Galeata 87-88
71-72
14 bis 117
Castenaso
Pieve di Cento
San Lazzaro
110-111 25
Berni Pieve di Cento
Reggio Emilia
71-72
54
Reggio Emilia
Ravenna
Campogalliano
108 Castell’Arquato
21-22
61 89-90Campogalliano
105
73-74 114 Bologna
Borghi Nonantola
31
di Savena
32
73-74 Nonantola 32
Felino
Forlì
Massa 37
Felino 112
Pianoro
Novellara 137
Cattolica
93
27
29
Cesenatico
91 93
84 20 23
29
109
Sant’Agata Bolognese 30
33
28
Lombarda Lugo
Bagnara
Santa Sofia
Castelnovo
Sant’Agata San Lazzaro Bolognese 30
25
Ravenna 82
Verrucchio 128
108
82
34
49
51
2010-2012
Comacchio
21-22
105
24
di Sotto
65
Salsomaggiore Traversetolo
Noceto Dozza
di Romagna Modena
di Savena
Traversetolo
Modena
San Giovanni
52
94
Imola
48
Parma
San Giovanni
Massa
Porretta Terme
123
116
115
66
2
in Persiceto
1
1
Pianoro
Argenta Bertinoro
20 23
Langhirano Terme
in Persiceto
2567
Montescudo
Lombarda Lugo
Langhirano
67
46 Cesena
62
Bagnara
Monterenzio
69
Carpi
35
83
Bentivoglio
15-16
Bellaria
Bobbio
83
Bagno di Romagna
Gattatico 107 69
Correggio
125Bentivoglio21-22
15-16105
24
Dozza
di Romagna
132
36
Mesola
Imola 75
Castelfranco Pianoro Emilia
79
122
126
63
113
17-18
Neviano degli
Formigine
118-119
20 23
121
Castelfranco Emilia
38-39-40
17-18
Savignano sul Rubicone Igea Marina 133
Neviano degli
70 Formigine
134
Faenza
106 127
Bagnara
Monterenzio
Cento
41-42-42 2-3-4-5 bis
80
120 San Martino
Mondaino Bastiglia
2-3-4-5
Arduini
55-56
68
77
24
Montese
107
Dozza
di Romagna
85-86
Arduini
60
135
Riolo
26
Rolo
Collecchio 81
in Rio
64 Montegridolfo
Cervia 6-7-8-9 Imola Budrio
Mirandola
68
77
43-44-45 6-7-8-9
Budrio
103
136 Rimini
76
78
Terme
57-58
87-88
117
75
10-11-12
104
78 The numbers on the map address the numbers of the museum cards
113
106
71-72 10-11-12
Pieve di Cento
FioranoReggio
Emilia Spilamberto
Monterenzio
53
Faenza
19
89-90
114
Fiorano Spilamberto
19
Longiano
Santarcangelo
130
13-14
Alfonsine
Campogalliano 73-74 Nonantola 32
Felino
13-14 54
55-56
107
84 Berceto
Novellara
Modenese
Montese
Riolo Berceto
Modenese
Forlì
Castenaso
Ferrara
Castenaso
di Romagna
131
14 75
93
Cesenatico 14 bis
29
bis
27
Cervia
BolognaSant’Agata
31 Bolognese
113
Terme
57-58
Castelnovo
Bologna 31
59
Faenza 30
28
129
Riccione
53
65
Montese 82
49
54
Traversetolo
Modena 51
Parma
di Sotto
66
109
50 Poggio
52
San Giovanni
San Lazzaro
Riolo
116
115
San Lazzaro
Porretta Terme 110-111
124
Galeata
Forlì
Langhirano
Bertinoro
in
123
Cesenatico
Persiceto
27
108
Berni
di Savena
Terme
Carpi
35
di Savena
Cesena
62 67
Gattatico
Correggio
36
28
47
61 Massa
Borghi
112
137
Cattolica 49 51
83
69
Bellaria
63
Lombarda
132
Bentiv
122
Lugo
52
Castelfranco 25Emilia
For
118-119
27
Savignano sul Rubicone
Porretta Terme 25
Santa Sofia
Ravenna Verrucchio 128
123
Igea Marina 133
Bologna
Ferrara
Forlì-Cesena
Modena
Parma
Piacenza
Ravenna
Reggio Emilia
Rimini

Bologna

Istituzione Villa Smeraldi
Museo della
Civiltà Contadina
Istituzione Villa Smeraldi
Museum of Peasant History and Life
address
phone + 39 051/891050 fax +39 051/898377
e-mail
web
Picking grapes with a wicker
basket
Villa Smeraldi seen from its pond
Section on farmhouse kitchens
Detail of the section “Timber,
leaves, wine”
Via Sammarina, 35
Loc. San Marino di Bentivoglio
segreteria.museo@provincia.bologna.it
Bentivoglio
40010 BO
www.museociviltacontadina.provincia.bologna.it
Since 1973, Villa Smeraldi, surrounded by a marvellous park,
has housed the collections of the Museum of Peasant History
and Life that have been put together thanks to the Gruppo della
Stadura Association: thousands of testimonies of life and work
in the Bologna countryside, donated by farmers and former
farmers. The permanent exhibition “Farmers in the Bologna
plain (1750-1950)” presents the issue of city-countryside relations
from the rural point of view, and illustrates the history of the
agricultural landscape in the Bologna area, the main crops,
rural craftsmen, families, domestic life, and the colonial court.
For over twenty years, the museum has provided educational
services for schools and adults. Since 1999, the museum is run
by the Istituzione Villa Smeraldi, established by the Province
of Bologna with the support of the municipalities of Bologna,
Castel Maggiore, and Bentivoglio.
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Casa Carducci
address
phone +39 051/4292820 fax +39 051/347592
e-mail
web
In Elvira Carducci’s salon:
the guéridon with legs made
of willow wood. The table
top displays portraits of the
poet’s relatives and
a metal calendar
Carducci’s bust, sculpted
by Paolo Testi and located
on the studio’s bookcase
shelf
The facade of Casa Carducci
2
Piazza Carducci, 5 Bologna
40125 BO
casacarducci@comune.bologna.it
www.casacarducci.it
The institute is many things at once: historic home with garden
and Monument to Giosuè Carducci erected by Leonardo Bistolfi,
library, archive, museum-home, collection of Carducci-era
artefacts, documentation centre on the work of the writer (who
was the 1906 Nobel laureate for literature), and a crucial stop for
students of 19th and 20th century literature.
The apartment on the second floor of the building, where Giosuè
Carducci lived from 1890 until his death (1907), maintains its
original furnishings and decorations. The library, with over
35,000 books, documents his wide-ranging interests in literature
and history, and features the best of Italy’s publishing output
from the 14th to the 19th centuries, while the archives contain
Carducci’s poetry, prose, and letters.

MAMbo
Museo d’Arte Moderna
di Bologna
MAMbo
Bologna Museum of Modern Art
address
phone +39 051/6496611 fax +39 051/6496600
e-mail
web
Museum entrance
The MAMbo’s exterior
The Collection. For a history
of the Modern Art Museum
Via Don Minzoni, 14 Bologna
40121 BO
info@mambo-bologna.org
www.mambo-bologna.org
The MAMbo – Bologna Museum of Modern Art is the region’s
leading centre for the contemporary arts: it supports cuttingedge,
innovative artistic research, and contributes to blazing
new paths for contemporary arts with experimentally-minded
exhibitions and numerous events involving scholars and the
general public. Through its permanent collection, the museum
traces the history of Italian art from the post- World War II
period until the present day, as seen through the prism of the
former Bologna Modern Art Gallery. Located in the heart of
the Manifattura delle Arti cultural district, today the MAMbo
is the main headquarters of the Bologna Modern Art Gallery
Institution, which also includes the Morandi Museum, Casa
Morandi, Villa delle Rose, the Museo per la Memoria di Ustica
and the Sandra Natali Artists Residence.
3

Musei Civici d’Arte Antica:
Collezioni Comunali d’Arte
Civic Museums of Ancient Art:
Municipal Art Collections
address
phone +39 051/2193998 +39 051/2195367 fax +39 051/232312
e-mail
web
Francesco Hayez, Ruth,
19th century
Galleria Vidoniana
Amico Aspertini, Nursing
Madonna, first quarter of
the 16th century
Vitale da Bologna, Saint
Peter and a pilgrim, about
1345
4
Piazza Maggiore, 6 Bologna
40121 BO
museiarteantica@comune.bologna.it
www.comune.bologna.it/iperbole/MuseiCivici
Since 1936, the former quarters of the papal legate display works
from the 13th to the early 20th centuries (Vitale da Bologna,
Francia, Tintoretto, Gentileschi, Nuvolone, Cagnacci, Burrini,
Crespi, Gandolfi, Hayez, Savini, and Morelli), furnishings and
decorations, and Aemilia Ars lace.
The museum houses the legacy of the former Gonfaloniere
gallery and donations to the Senate of Bologna (17th-18th
centuries). Its core collection includes 18 paintings by Donato
Creti donated to the Senate of Bologna in 1744 and works by
Pelagio Palagi and from his collection, purchased in 1860 and
currently parcelled out among several of Bologna’s institutes. It
boasts splendid views over Piazza Maggiore and the surrounding
city, and is a source for the city’s heraldry, historical iconography
and information on the architectural restoration that took place
between the 19th and 20th centuries.

Musei Civici d’Arte Antica:
Museo Civico
d’Arte Industriale
e Galleria Davia Bargellini
Civic Museums of Ancient Art:
Civic Museum of Industrial Arts
and Davia Bargellini Gallery
address
phone +39 051/236708 fax +39 051/232312
e-mail
web
Antonio Vivarini, Madonna
with Child, second half of
the 15th century
Gala carriage, 18th century,
with early 19th century
adaptations
View of the painting
collection
Strada Maggiore, 44 Bologna
40125 BO
museiarteantica@comune.bologna.it
www.comune.bologna.it/iperbole/MuseiCivici/
The museum was opened in 1924 in the 17th century Palazzo
Bargellini. The seven exhibition halls still reflect their original
arrangement, which was meant to bring to life an 18th century
furnished apartment in Bologna; they display the Davia Bargellini
painting collection, which includes works such as Vitale da
Bologna’s Madonna dei Denti, Simone dei Crocefissi’s Pietà,
Jacopo di Paolo’s Saint John the Baptist and Michele di Matteo’s
Evangelist, along with paintings by Prospero and Lavinia Fontana,
Giuseppe Maria, and Luigi Crespi. Sculpture from Bologna is
represented by statuettes by Giuseppe Maria Mazza and Angelo
Gabriello Piò, and crèche figures in the 18th and 19th centuries.
There is an important collection of applied arts and “curios from
old Bologna” of various origins, such as wrought iron works and
an 18th century painted and glided carriage.
5

Musei Civici d’Arte Antica:
Museo Civico Medievale
Civic Museums of Ancient Art:
Civic Museum of the Middle Ages
address
phone +39 051/2193916 +39 051/2193930 fax +39 051/232312
e-mail
web
French manufacture,
Polyptych with Madonna
and Child, mid-14th century
Details of halls 6 and 7
Pier Paolo Dalle Masegne,
Fragments of the arch of
Giovanni da Legnano, dead
in 1383
Inner courtyard of Palazzo
Ghisilardi
6
Via Manzoni, 4 Bologna
40121 BO
museiarteantica@comune.bologna.it
www.comune.bologna.it/iperbole/MuseiCivici
The halls of the 15th century Palazzo Ghisilardi feature abundant
evidence of Medieval life in Bologna, including the great statue
of Boniface VIII by Manno Bandini da Siena (1301); the large 14th
century English cope with stories from the life of Christ and the
Virgin Mary, one of the best examples of opus anglicanum; and
engraved tombstones of learned scholars and professors.
There is a broad selection of French and Italian ivory objects,
precious Murano glassworks, valuable arms, and extensive,
otherwise rare material documenting life at the Bentivoglio
court.
Large sections of the museum are dedicated to Renaissance
bronze and baroque sculpture from Bologna, such as a model
for Giambologna’s Neptune, and rare examples of illuminations
from the 13th to 16th centuries made in Bologna.

Museo Civico Archeologico
Archaeological Museum
address
phone +39 051/2757211 fax +39 051/266516
e-mail
web
Head of the Lemnan Athena
statue, a copy of Phidias’
original statue, late 1st century
BC/early 1st century AD
Atrium of the Museum,
formerly the Church of Santa
Maria della Morte
Pre-history section
Limestone bas-relief depicting
Nubian prisoners, from
Saqqara, tomb of Horemheb,
18th dynasty, reign of
Tutankhamun, 1332-1323 BC.
museo civico
a�Cheologico
bologna
Via dell’Archiginnasio, 2 Bologna
40124 BO
mca@comune.bologna.it
www.comune.bologna.it/museoarcheologico
Archaeological Museum of Bologna is located next to Piazza
Maggiore in the 15th century Palazzo Galvani, formerly known as
Ospedale della Morte (Hospital of Death). Its patrimony is made
up first and foremost by the extensive collections of material
documenting Bologna’s archaeology from pre-history to the
Roman era, highlighted by numerous Etruscan grave goods
from the Villanovan and Felsinian eras.
Major collections are on display in the Etruscan-Italic, Greek,
Roman, and Egyptian sections. The latter features over 3,500
items, including masterpieces such as the bas-relief from
the tomb of the Pharaoh Horemheb, and is one of the most
important such collections in Europe.
The museum also has a large numismatic collection, with over
100,000 coins and medals.
7

Museo Civico
del Risorgimento
Civic Museum of Risorgimento
address
phone +39 051/225582 +39 051/347592 fax +39 051/225583
e-mail
web
Anonymous, Giuseppe Garibaldi,
post 1880
Faustino Joli, Colonel of the
Bologna Civic Guard, about 1849
Carlo Ademollo, Ugo Bassi in
Comacchio prison, about 1867
Propaganda poster for the
National Loan, 1917-1918
8
Piazza Carducci, 5 Bologna
40125 BO
museorisorgimento@comune.bologna.it
www.comune.bologna.it/museorisorgimento
The Civic Museum of Risorgimento focuses on the history of
Bologna between 1796 and 1918, in light of national events, with
references to the city’s cultural, social, economic, and political
life.
Napoleonic Age is illustrated by the valuable weapons of the King
of Naples Joachim Murat, whose memory is linked to Bologna;
Restoration plots are evidenced in documents of the Carbonari
secret society; the crucial years of Risorgimento under Garibaldi
are documented with weapons, uniforms, banners from the
wars of independence, Ugo Bassi’s mementos and items from
the battle of August 8, 1848. The exhibitions are completed by
sections on Bologna’s urban and economic development
in the decades after unification, and on World War I.

Museo del Patrimonio
Industriale
Museum of Industrial Heritage
address
phone +39 051/6356611 fax +39 051/6346053
e-mail
web
Cam wheel patented by
Bruto Carpigiani used on
the ACMA 749 machine
from 1954
The Galotti Furnace,
home of the Museum
Technical and scientific
instruments from the
Aldini-Valeriani collection
in the Hoffmann furnace
Via della Beverara, 123 Bologna
40131 BO
museopat@comune.bologna.it
www.comune.bologna.it/patrimonioindustriale
The Museum of Industrial Heritage is housed in the former
Galotti brick furnace, built in 1887 on the Navile Canal and
restructured by the Bologna municipal administration. It
focuses on studying and popularizing the productive history
of the city and its territory, from the Bologna of water and silk
of the 15th to 18th centuries to the current mechanics and
mechatronics district. The exhibition features five sections,
and uses machines, plastic relief maps, functioning models,
exhibits, scientific instruments, interactive features, slide shows,
and videos to illustrate the people, companies, technologies,
professional training efforts, techniques, and technological and
product innovations that shaped Bologna’s industrial heritage.
9

Museo di Palazzo Poggi
Palazzo Poggi Museum
address
phone +39 051/2099398 fax +39 051/2099402
e-mail
web
Hall of light. Inspired by Pittoni-
Valeriani, Allegorical monument to
Sir Isaac Newton, 1727-29
View of the Hall of Anatomy with
Ercole Lelli’s eight statues, second
half of the 18th century
Blowfish from Ulisse Aldrovandi’s
16th century collection
10
Via Zamboni, 33 Bologna
40126 BO
museopoggi.organizzazione@unibo.it
www.museopalazzopoggi.unibo.it
The Palazzo Poggi Museum is the University of Bologna’s main
museum. Decorated by paintings by Pellegrino Tibaldi, Nicolò
Dell’Abate and Prospero Fontana, the Museum displays the
University’s most ancient collections: original items from Ulisse
Aldrovandi’s Theatre of Nature (16th century) and laboratories
and instruments from the Bologna Institute of Science, founded
by Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, who worked in Palazzo Poggi during
the 18th century.
Along with a collection of anatomical wax figures, furnishings
and clay models from the schools of obstetrics, the Museum
also displays ancient maps, 10 original model ships, and models
of fortified towns and artillery pieces from the 16th to 18th
centuries.

Museo Ebraico
Jewish Museum
address
phone +39 051/2911280 +39 051/6569003 fax +39 051/235430
e-mail
web
Detail of synagogue ceremonial
objects
Section: Jewish identity
Section: The Jews in Bologna
The bookstore
Via Valdonica, 1/5 Bologna
40126 BO
info@museoebraicobo.it
www.museoebraicobo.it
The Jewish Museum of Bologna was established 1999 to
preserve, study, and promote the rich Jewish heritage that
has deep roots in Bologna and Emilia-Romagna.
The exhibition features numerous historic exhibits, which
use various multimedia tools (videos, CD-ROMs, illustrated
panels…) to trace the several-thousand-year history of Jewish
culture. The museum aims to promote the value of Jewish
culture and identity from its origins to the present day, and pays
particular attention to the Jewish presence in Emilia-Romagna
in ancient times, through documents and artwork.
Additionally, in its first ten years of activity, the museum has
increasingly taken on the functions of a cultural centre, and has
organized numerous initiatives targeting a very broad audience.
11

Museo Europeo
degli Studenti
European Museum of Students
address
phone +39 051/2088545 fax +39 051/2088525
e-mail
web
Being a student in the 19th
century: meritocracy
Student self-government: the
symbols of power, 13th to 17th
centuries
Germany, about 1890, exhibit
of a student’s room
The political activism of students:
from Napoleon to 1968
12
Via Zamboni, 33 Bologna
40126 BO
as.meus@unibo.it
www.archiviostorico.unibo.it/museostud/
This is the first-ever museum dedicated to the students who,
eight centuries ago in Bologna, established shared rules of
co-existence and self-government, and created rituals and
ceremonies that became the building blocks of their identity.
The museum aims to promote knowledge on how students
changed over the centuries, by illustrating their characteristics
and evolution throughout Europe: student mobility, student
associations, daily life, the value of meritocracy, sports, the late
admittance of women to universities, political activism, and the
original aspects of student culture (newspapers, music, theatre,
celebrations).
The museum displays photographs, diplomas, medals, posters,
and postcards, and features an extensive multimedia apparatus.

Museo Internazionale
e Biblioteca della Musica
International Music Museum and Library
address
phone +39 051/2757711 fax +39 051/2757728
e-mail
web
Lute, 16th century
Hall 8: Music books and
instruments 18th and 19th
centuries
Hall 5: Music books and
instruments 16th and 17th
centuries
Hall 3: Friends of Father Martini
Strada Maggiore, 34 Bologna
40125 BO
museomusica@comune.bologna.it
www.museomusicabologna.it
The International Music Museum and Library was inaugurated
in 2004 in Palazzo Sanguinetti. The exhibition includes nine
halls, which trace six centuries of European music history, with
numerous paintings, ancient music instruments, and a broad
selection of immensely valuable historical documents.
The museum is not only a repository of classical music heritage,
but also a place to cross-pollinate, research, and promote ideas;
indeed, it is available for off-beat cultural events that
fall outside the traditional museum mould. It is an open,
lively, multi-functional place, visited by scholars and amateurs,
citizens and tourists, adults and children, with a single common
denominator: love for music in all its forms and expressions.
13

Museo Morandi
Morandi Museum
address
phone +39 051/2193338 +39 051/2193294 fax +39 051/203403
e-mail
web
Giorgio Morandi, Still Life, 1956
(V. 985)
Museum entrance
View of the exhibits
14
Piazza Maggiore, 6 Bologna
40124 BO
mmorandi@comune.bologna.it
www.mambo-bologna.org/museomorandi/
The Morandi Museum, housed in Palazzo d’Accursio in Piazza
Maggiore, hosts the largest and most remarkable public
collection dedicated to Giorgio Morandi (Bologna 1890-1964).
The collection was established thanks to a major donation
from the artist’s sister Maria Teresa, which added to a large
body of works already held by the Bologna Modern Art Gallery.
The Museum’s holdings are increased by works from private
collections that have been generously granted on temporary
loans. The museum’s halls trace all the phases and techniques
of the Master’s artistic career. The museum promotes a
temporary exhibitions programme, which aims to compare
and contrast Morandi’s activity with that of other leading 20th
century artists. It also collaborates with important institutions in
Italy and abroad to promote Morandi’s work.

Casa Morandi
Morandi Museum Home
address
phone +39 051/6496611 fax +39 051/6496600
e-mail
web
Detail of the replica of Morandi
studio
Multi-purpose room
Detail of the replica of Morandi
studio
Via Fondazza, 36 Bologna
40125 BO
casamorandi@comune.bologna.it
www.mambo-bologna.org/museomorandi/casamorandi/
Casa Morandi was opened to the public in 2009 after the
completion of conservation restoration efforts carried out by the
Municipality of Bologna with the support of Unindustria Bologna,
which converted the home where Morandi lived and worked from
1910 to 1964 into museum dedicated to preserving and studying
his legacy. The museum-home complements the exhibits of the
Morandi Museum, and introduces the public to the atmosphere
that reigned in Morandi’s workshop, a replica of which is featured
here with original furniture and tools used by the artist, still in
their original positions. A careful selection of photographs, books,
and various documents traces the salient moments in Morandi’s
life, while audio and video installations, multi-media technologies,
a library, and a multi-purpose room for cultural activities help
contribute to keeping the figure and work of the great master alive
and current.
14 - bis

Museo Civico Archeologico
e Paleoambientale
Civic Archaeological and
Paleo-Environmental Museum
address
phone +39 051/6928306 +39 051/6928279 fax +39 051/6928289
e-mail
web
Detail of a Villanovian burial site
The 14th century Torrione della
Canapa
Ash urn from the Villanovian era
Tools for spinning and weaving
hemp
15
Via Mentana, 32 Budrio
40054 BO
musei@comune.budrio.bo.it
www.comune.budrio.bo.it
The Museum documents the Villanovian civilization with funeral
urns, jewels, and tools from the Castenaso and Budrio areas.
This large section, which provides an overview of daily life
during that period, is introduced by extensive material from the
Palaeolithic and from the Bronze and Iron Ages. The exhibition
ends with a detailed and rich archaeological and educational
section on the Roman period. The museum thus illustrates how
the relationship between man and the environment changes over
time, and how the settlement patterns, economic activities, daily
life, and burial rites of local civilizations evolved.
During festivals and celebrations, visitors can see how hemp
is spun and woven in the Torrione della Canapa.

Museo dei Burattini
Museum of Puppets
address
phone +39 051/6928306 +39 051/6928279 fax +39 051/6928289
e-mail
web
One of the Museum’s puppets
One of the Museum’s rooms,
with exhibits and display cases
Traditional puppets
Veronesi’s puppets
Via Garibaldi, 29 Budrio
40054 BO
musei@comune.budrio.bo.it
www.comune.budrio.bo.it
Puppets and puppet theatres, backdrops and props, costumes
and accessories: everything that a puppeteer might need is
on display in the Museum. The Via Garibaldi location displays
over 100 puppets from the first half of the 20th century by the
puppet-makers Amilcare Gabrielli, Arturo Veronesi and Umberto
Malaguti, all from Bologna.
The Casina del Quattrocento’s reserve collections display the
extraordinary collections of glove and string puppets, Sicilian
“pupi”, shades, toy houses, stage sets, stage props, and
documents collected by the puppeteers Vittorio Zanella and Rita
Pasqualini. The museum keeps the puppet-makers’ tradition
alive through exhibitions, plays, performances, and workshops.
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Museo dell’Ocarina
e degli Strumenti Musicali
in Terracotta
Museum of the Ocarina and
Terracotta Musical Instruments
address
phone +39 051/6928306 +39 051/6928279 fax +39 051/6928289
e-mail
web
A historic ocarina from Budrio
The Museum’s entrance
The historical section
Some historic ocarinas from
Budrio
17
Via Garibaldi, 35 Budrio
40054 BO
musei@comune.budrio.bo.it
www.comune.budrio.bo.it
The ocarina, a small terracotta flute, has given Budrio worldwide
fame. Korea and Japan are envious of this small town in the
Bologna countryside, where the ocarina was invented. In the
mid-19th century, Giuseppe Donati hand-built the very first
ocarina.
Through instruments built by Giuseppe Donati, Cesare Vicinelli
and Alberto Mezzetti, the Museum tells the tale of this musical
instrument’s fortunes. Photographs, sheet music, and records
illustrate the ocarina folk bands that gave life to a rich musical
repertoire from the 19th century to the present day. Wide
attention is given to contemporary producers of ocarinas and
other terracotta musical instruments in Budrio and throughout
the world.

Pinacoteca Civica
Domenico Inzaghi
Domenico Inzaghi
Civic Art Gallery
address
phone +39 051/6928306 +39 051/6928279 fax +39 051/6928289
e-mail
web
Dosso Dossi (attributed),
Democritus, 1497-1548
Follower of Guercino, Saint Cecilia,
1640-66
Paolo Carracci, Annunciation,
oil on canvas 1600-24
The art gallery’s halls in the
ancient Palazzo della Partecipanza
Via Mentana, 32 Budrio
40054 BO
musei@comune.budrio.bo.it
www.comune.budrio.bo.it
How is it possible that Budrio’s Civic Art Gallery can display
precious paintings by heavyweight artists as Vitale da Bologna,
Tommaso Garelli, Dosso Dossi, Bartolomeo Passerotti, Lavinia
Fontana, Alessandro Tiarini, Giuseppe Maria Crespi and
Alessandro Guardassoni? Most of the gallery’s heritage comes
from a donation made by Captain Domenico Inzaghi to his fellow
citizens of Budrio in 1824. This wide-ranging collection of 14th
to 19th century paintings from Bologna and the Emilia region is
increased by a rich collection of drawings and prints from the
bequeathment and subsequent purchases. The art gallery is
housed in Budrio’s historic Palazzo della Partecipanza, which
also houses the Teatro Consorziale. The museum’s branch in
Torrione del Risorgimento features exhibits on life in Budrio in
the 19th century.
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MUV - Museo
della civiltà Villanoviana
MUV Museum of the Villanovan Civilization
address
phone +39 051/780021
fax
e-mail
web
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Via Tosarelli 191
Loc. Villanova
Stele of swords, 7th century B.C.
Casa Sant’Anna, home of the
Museum
Grave goods from the Marano
burial site (7th century B.C.)
muv@comune.castenaso.bo.it
www.comune.castenaso.bo.it
Castenaso
40055 BO
The MUV Museum of the Villanovan Civilization is located in
Villanova di Castenaso, right where in 1853 Count Giovanni
Gozzadini, a leading figure on the 19th century cultural scene in
Bologna, found the first archaeological remnants related to this
culture, which he named Villanovan. Items on display include the
extensive grave goods from the Marano burial site (7th century
B.C.), with eight sandstone and limestone funerary steles, the
most noteworthy of which is the stele of swords, reflecting the
orientalizing style of ancient Greece. It is rectangular in shape,
surmounted by a disk and adorned with complex bas-relief
decoration. Soundscapes, video installations, and interactive
stations accompany visitors on a journey through the life and
rites of the Villanovan culture, and introduce the figures of Count
Giovanni Gozzadini and his wife Maria Teresa, who actively
participated in her husband’s archaeological adventures.

Museo della Rocca di Dozza
Rocca di Dozza Museum
address
phone +39 0542/678240 fax +39 0542/678240
e-mail
web
Room for women. Ceiling fresco
Historic kitchen
Gallery on the piano nobile
Rocca di Dozza
Piazza Rocca, 6A
rocca@comune.dozza.bo.it
Museo
della Rocca
Dozza
40060 BO
www.comune.dozza.bo.it; www.fondazionedozza.it
The Museum is an integral part of the Rocca di Dozza fortress,
which was built in the Middle Ages and transformed by Caterina
Sforza into a fortified castle; during the Renaissance, two
powerful senatorial families, the Campeggi and the Malvezzi,
turned it into a nobleman’s residence.
The fortress is now a museum-home that offers three different
tours: the Medieval and Renaissance fortress, the Renaissance
residence, and the 17th century residence. The valuable painting
collection, furniture, and historic objects once belonging to the
Malvezzi-Campeggi liven up the nine rooms of the piano nobile
and the historic kitchen.
The Museum also houses the contemporary art collection of the
Muro Dipinto (Painted Wall) Study and Documentation Centre,
an art show launched 1960 that has turned Dozza into a “painted
city”. The ancient wine cellar hosts the Emilia-Romagna Regional
Enoteca.
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Museo di San Domenico
Collezioni d’Arte della Città
San Domenico Museum
City Art Collections
address
phone +39 0542/602609 fax +39 0542/602608
e-mail
web
Detail of the former
convent library’s decorations
Second cloister
Gallery of the second cloister
View of the main dormitory of the
former convent of San Domenico
with the new museum exhibit
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Via Sacchi, 4 Imola
40026 BO
musei@comune.imola.bo.it
www.museicivici.comune.imola.bo.it
The former convent of San Domenico is strategically located in the
heart of the city. This 13th century building was rebuilt many times
before acquiring its current aspect. The compound houses several
museums, including the city’s art collections, which feature six
hundred items including paintings, sculptures, pottery, drawings,
liturgical furnishings, coins, and medals: a veritable illustrated history
of Imola’s figurative culture from the Middle Ages to the present. The
building also houses the Scarabelli Museum of Natural History and
Archaeology (currently being renovated), which was established in 1857
thanks to the studies and research of the geologist and palaeontologist
Giuseppe Scarabelli; it hosts archaeological finds from the lower
Palaeolithic from the Imola hills, and Bronze Age finds from two local
villages. The only hall in the archaeological section currently open to
the public is the one dedicated to the Villanovan era in Imola, with
finds from the Pontesanto necropolis. Finally, the museum also hosts
historical material from the Museum of Risorgimento.

Palazzo Tozzoni
address
phone +39 0542/602609 +39 0542/35856 fax +39 0542/602608
e-mail
web
The library
The entrance stairway
The salon on the piano nobile
Barocchetto apartment, alcove
Via Garibaldi, 18 Imola
40026 BO
musei@comune.imola.bo.it
www.museicivici.comune.imola.bo.it
The building that belonged to the Counts of Tozzoni, whose lives
were often intertwined with the city’s history, was donated to
the Municipality of Imola in 1978 and is an excellent example of
a museum-home. Visits begin with the imposing stairway and
continue over three richly furnished and decorated floors. A
major painting collection and numerous applied art objects are
on display in the rooms, while the cellar features an ethnographic
exhibit.
The interplay between the rooms and their furniture highlights
the way they were used both as everyday living quarters and
status symbols.
The library, with its many books printed between the 16th
and 19th centuries, is an integral part of the building, as are
the extensive archives, which preserve family, political, and
patrimonial documents from the 16th century to the present day.
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Rocca Sforzesca
Rocca Sforzesca Fortress
address
phone +39 0542/602609 +39 0542/23472 fax +39 0542/602608
e-mail
web
Detail of the fortress walls
Rocca Sforzesca, view of the
eastern walls
Jug bearing the Alidosi eagle from
the keep’s well, late 14th century
Main hall: the collection of arms
23
Piazzale Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, 1 Imola
40026 BO
musei@comune.imola.bo.it
www.museicivici.comune.imola.bo.it
Imola’s Rocca Sforzesca Fortress is a splendid example of
fortified architecture built between the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance. Founded in the 12th century, some of its original
features include its portal with a lancet arch, a keep with
dungeon, the evocative ground floor rooms, a terrace that
overlooks the entire town, and the ancient tower. Between
1472 and 1484, the Sforzas entrusted their military architect
Dainesio Maineri with renovating the fortress to reflect the
defensive needs of the time. Once it lost its status as a military
fortification, it was turned into a prison between the 16th and
19th centuries. Its halls display a collection of melee weapons,
firearms, and defensive weapons, as well as the ceramic pottery
that was found in the fortress during restoration efforts, which
shed light on daily life between the 16th and the 19th centuries.

Museo Civico Archeologico
Luigi Fantini
Luigi Fantini
Civic Museum of Archaeology
address
phone +39 051/929766 fax +39 051/929766
e-mail
web
Wooden house frame
Main facade of the museum
Replica of a house and its furniture
Outdoor archaeological
and educational park
Via del Museo, 2 Monterenzio
40050 BO
museomonterenzio@yahoo.it
www.archeologia.unibo.it
The Monterenzio Museum of Archaeology, which was
inaugurated in July 2000, owes its existence to the successful
archaeological research carried out at Monte Bibele and
Monterenzio Vecchio: it is noteworthy for displaying a wide range
of material from the 4th and 3rd centuries BC documenting the
migration and settlement of Celts from France in Italy. Weapons
and parure items are precisely matched by items from France,
Germany, and the Danube area. The presence of Etruscan
engravings, Celtic and Magna Graecia coins, and Ligurian
material proves to the ethnic complexity of the pre-Roman
community in this part of the Apennines.
The museum also features a conservation-restoration laboratory,
a classroom, and an outdoor archaeological and educational
park. The Monte Bibele archaeological area – 15 km from the
museum – can be visited and features information panels.
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Museo di Arti e Mestieri
Pietro Lazzarini
Pietro Lazzarini Museum of Arts and Crafts
address
phone +39 051/776927 +39 051/6529105 fax
e-mail
web
Weights and measures
Mules carrying lumber
Weaving work
25
Via del Gualando, 2 Pianoro
40065 BO
info@museodiartiemestieri.it
www.museodiartiemestieri.it
+39 051/776927
The Pietro Lazzarini Museum of Arts and Crafts, housed in a late
19th century barn, studies and collects material documenting the
rural and artisanal culture of the Savena, Idice and Setta valleys,
in the Apennine foothills of Bologna province. The displays, which
revolve around dioramas, aim to reflect the traditions, lifestyles,
and dialect of the Pianoro community. The museum’s exhibits are
centred on the daily work of men and women, and are organized
thematically: the rural home, artisanal activities, farm work,
games, and puppet theatres.
The museum, inaugurated in 2007 and managed by Associazione
Territorio e Civiltà dei Mestieri, provides educational services and
opportunities for re-discovering the local area’s cultural identity.

Pinacoteca Civica
Civic Art Gallery
address
phone +39 051/6862611 fax +39 051/974308
e-mail
web
Antonio Alberghini, Saint George,
early 20th century
The entrance to the Art Gallery
Giuseppe Zola, Landscape with the
finding of Moses, about 1700-10
Wu Hao, from the Efrem Tavoni
graphic art collection
Piazza Costa, 10 Pieve di Cento
40066 BO
cultura@comune.pievedicento.bo.it
www.comune.pievedicento.bo.it
Since 1980 the Civic Art Gallery has been housed in the former
hospital overlooking Piazza Andrea Costa. This building
maintains its 18th century appearance, and also houses the
public library, the ancient book collection of the Scolopi, and the
town’s historical archives.
The material on display is quite varied and includes: several 14th
and 15th century statues, some splendid miniature antiphonaries
from the 14th century, a vast collection of glassworks, and an
extensive painting collection subdivided into two sections, one
for ancient art, and the other for 20th century art.
Some of the artists whose works are represented in the ancient
art collection include Scarsellino, Zallone and Zola; the 20th
century section features works by Antonio Alberghini, Alberto
Martini, Norma Mascellani, Pirro Cuniberti and Sepo.
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Museo delle Moto
e dei Ciclomotori
DEMM
Museum of DEMM
Motorcycles and Scooters
address
phone +39 335/7214996 fax +39 0534/24440
e-mail
web
Display of DEMM Scooters
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Via Mazzini, 230A Porretta Terme
40046 BO
iat@comune.porrettaterme.bo.it
www.comune.porrettaterme.bo.it
The Museum of DEMM Motorcycles and Scooters owes its
existence to the passion and dedication of DEMM Vice-President
Giuliano Mazzini, who along with his son Mosè embarked on
a lengthy, painstaking process to recover, restore, and valorise
the glorious motorcycle company’s documents, prototypes, and
models. The displays feature about 100 motorcycles that took
part in various Italian racing competitions over a twenty-year
period beginning in 1954. Foremost among them is the so-called
Siluro, which set 24 world records in 1956. The Museum also
displays sectioned engines, exploded view diagrams of engines,
and engines used for industries, automobiles, and motorcycles,
along with technical and historical information.

Museo etnografico
LabOrantes
LabOrantes
Museum of Ethnography
address
phone +39 0534/29351 +39 335/7214996 fax +39 0534/29351
e-mail
web
Detail of a shoe
The mountain home
Votive offerings room
Via Manservisi, 5
Loc. Castelluccio
iat@comune.porrettaterme.bo.it
www.comune.porrettaterme.bo.it
Porretta Terme
40046 BO
The LabOrantes Museum is housed in a wing of the Manservisi
Castle. The name LabOrantes combines the Latin words for the
two main core collections: testimonies of mountain work, and
folk religion objects.
The collection of everyday and working tools was begun by the
Pro Loco Il Faggio association to ensure that tools commonly
used by peasants and artisans from mountain communities
would not be lost.
The collection of sacred furnishings was begun to preserve
sacred and folk art objects, particularly the votive offerings
(ex voto) from the Madonna del Faggio Sanctuary and sacred
furnishings from the Castelluccio parish oratory. Noteworthy
items include a 17th century crèche figures and many votive
offerings painted on wooden tablets.
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Museo Archeologico
Ambientale - Sede
di San Giovanni in Persiceto
Museum of Environmental Archaeology
San Giovanni Persiceto
address
phone +39 051/6871757 fax +39 051/823305
e-mail
web
R. Merlo, Centuriazione, 2004
Renaissance sector
Exhibits
Simulated archaeological dig,
educational workshop
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Porta Garibaldi
Corso Italia, 163
maa@caa.it
www.museoarcheologicoambientale.it
San Giovanni
in Persiceto
40017 BO
The Archaeological and Environmental Museum is a network of
museums located in the municipalities of the western Bologna
plain, which municipalities have formed a union called Unione di
Terre d’Acqua. The San Giovanni in Persiceto venue is housed in
the former Porta Garibaldi district prison, which was built in 1830
on the ruins of the ancient medieval gate to the city, and whose
original structure has remained intact. The exhibits illustrate the
main archaeological and archeo-botanical finds in the Persiceto
area from the Iron Age to the Renaissance, with a particular focus
on the Middle Ages, highlighting the results of archaeological digs
conducted at an important 10th century castrum discovered near
Crocetta di Sant’Agata Bolognese. The displays are enhanced by
numerous information panels, images, dioramas, drawings, and
text. Significant attention is paid to the environmental issues
that help explain the relationship between humans and the local
environment during the centuries.

Museo del Cielo
e della Terra
Museum of Earth and the Sky
address
phone +39 051/827067 fax +39 051/827067
e-mail
web
Bombus terrestris on Tagetum
Bora Naturalistic Area
Insect Laboratory: observation
equipment
Astronomic Area: The Observatory
Vicolo Baciadonne, 1 San Giovanni
in Persiceto
40017 BO
info@museocieloeterra.org
www.museocieloeterra.org
The Museum of Earth and Sky is the Bologna metropolitan area’s
Museum of Science. It includes an astronomic area (Planetarium
and Observatory); the historical and educational phisics
laboratory “Tecnoscienza”; the Bora ecological reclamation area,
the historic “Ulisse Aldrovandi” Botanical Garden; and the Insect
Laboratory, an innovative “living museum” where live insects can
be observed. It also runs educational activities in the naturalistic
areas of the Museum System Terred’acqua (San Giovanni in
Persiceto, Sant’Agata Bolognese, Calderara di Reno, Crevalcore,
Sala Bolognese, Anzola dell’Emilia)
The Museum has many different goals: promoting science
education through hands-on workshops for family and cultural
events; scientific research; and establishing a local presence
thanks to the support of volunteer associations.
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Museo della Preistoria
Luigi Donini
Luigi Donini Museum of Prehistory
address
phone +39 051/465132 fax +39 051/465132
e-mail
web
Skull of Crocuta crocuta spelaea
(Cave Hyaena)
Model of Bison priscus
from the last Ice Age
The Preistopark: life-size model
of Mammuthus primigenius
A cave from the Gessi Bolognesi
(room 1)
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Via F.lli Canova, 49 San Lazzaro
di Savena
40068 BO
museodonini@libero.it
www.museodellapreistoria.it
The Museum of Prehistory stands out thanks to its original
contents and the deep links it establishes with the local
territory’s outstanding natural and archaeological heritage,
such as the Gessi Bolognesi, the Farneto cave and the
Villanovian necropolis at Caselle. It is divided into three main
sections - Origins of the territory (geology, palaeontology,
and karst topography of the Gessi Bolognesi area), Origins and
evolution of man (from the Palaeolithic to the Bronze Age), The
Villanovan civilization (Giovanni Gozzadini and the discovery of
the Caselle necropolis) - which feature both original material and
life-size, three-dimensional replicas of past landscapes, giving
visitors a window into the past with great effectiveness and
immediacy.
The park adjacent to the museum hosts the Preistopark,
an educational journey through the extinct megafauna of the
Apennines during the last Ice Age.

Museo Archeologico
Ambientale - Sede di
Sant’Agata Bolognese
Museum of Environmental Archaeology
Sant’Agata Bolognese
address
phone +39 051/6871757 fax +39 051/823305
e-mail
web
M. Magoni, Terramare, 2010
The façade of the museum
Exhibits
via Terragli Ponente, 2 Sant’Agata Bolognese
40019 BO
maa@caa.it
www.museoarcheologicoambientale.it
The Museum of Environmental Archaeology is a network of
museums located in the municipalities of the western Bologna
plain, which municipalities have formed a union called Unione di
Terre d’Acqua.
The Sant’Agata Bolognese venue provides an exhaustive
archaeological and paleo-environmental overview of the Bronze
Age in the area between Panaro and Samoggia.
The archaeological finds on display, exhibited in an evocative
setting, come from the main Terramare sites in the Sant’Agata
Bolognese and San Giovanni in Persiceto areas.
Illustrations, replica objects, and information panels help visitors
– especially children and school groups – better understand the
items on display.
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Ferrara

Ecomuseo:
Museo della Bonifica
Eco-museum:
Museum of Wetland Draining
address
phone +39 0532/808058 fax +39 0532/808001
e-mail
web
Water pump
Aerial view of Saiarino pumping
station
In the foreground: the hydrologist
Giovan Battista Aleotti a.k.a.
L’Argenta
Turbine room
Via Saiarino, 1 Argenta
44011 FE
museiargenta@comune.argenta.fe.it
www.comune.argenta.fe.it
The Argenta Eco-Museum is a trust between the Municipality of
Argenta, the Reno River Reclamation Consortium of Bologna, the
Po Delta Regional Park, and local communities. The Museum of
Wetland Draining, completed in 2002, is a wonderful example
of industrial archaeology and an active work site. The exhibition
begins in the Saiarino pumping station: starting from the sluice
gate on the Lorgana canal, through an “archaeological walkways”
featuring machines used in the early 20th century, and to the
main pumping room – the heart of the station – where six pumps
are still functioning, in the Art Nouveau building.
The visit ends in the electric power plant, where thermal energy
was once produced with boilers, and where electricity is still
generated today, as it was in the past.
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Ecomuseo:
Museo delle Valli
Eco-museum:
Museum of the Valli d’Argenta
address
phone +39 0532/808058 fax +39 0532/808001
e-mail
web
Lily pond with white lotus
The children’s atelier
Exterior of the museum
Anthropology section
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Via Cardinala, 1C
Loc. Campotto
museiargenta@comune.argenta.fe.it
www.comune.argenta.fe.it
Argenta
44010 FE
The Museum of the Valli d’Argenta is the organizational hub of
the Argenta Eco-Museum and the gateway to the Val Campotto
Nature Reserve, the sixth station on the Po Delta Park tour.
It also coordinates the Museum of Wetland Draining and
the Argenta Civic Museum, as well as the local cultural and
environmental heritage.
It won the Museum of the Year award from the Council of Europe
in 1992 and it was renovated in 2007.
The Museum has two sections: the anthropology section on
the ground floor describes the relationship between man and
water, typical jobs of the Valli d’Argenta, and the area’s geomorphological
evolution. The natural history section focuses
on the four habitats of the nature reserve: water lily ponds,
reedbeds, wet meadows, and flooded woodlands; the “Hall of
Senses” traces the passing of the seasons in the nature reserve.

Galleria d’Arte Moderna
Aroldo Bonzagni
Aroldo Bonzagni
Modern Art Gallery
address
phone +39 051/6843390 +39 051/6843334 fax +39 051/6843398
e-mail
web
Lucio Fontana, Spatial Concept
(The wait - Year 2022), 1959
Main hall dedicated to the works
of Aroldo Bonzagni
Aroldo Bonzagni, Molinari with
violin, 1918
Palazzo del Governatore,
home of the Gallery
Piazza Guercino, 39 Cento
44042 FE
cultura@comune.cento.fe.it
http://bonzagni.comune.cento.fe.it/
The museum dedicated to the Cento-born artist Aroldo Bonzagni
(1887-1918) was established thanks to the dedication of Elva
Bonzagni. Aroldo Bonzagni was described as “an elegant yet
gutsy painter, a diligent and discerning draughtsman, capable of
fine social and political satire, and the successful inventor of the still
almost new genre of advertising”.
The exhibition follows a chronological order, starting with
Bonzagni’s paintings and continuing with those of the painters
who knew him and shared with him the cultural climate of the
first decades of the 1900s, such as Dudreville, Balla, Russolo,
Sironi, Bucci, Carpi, Dudovich, and Wildt. It then showcases
works from the 1950s and 1960s by Sassu, Annigoni, Cantatore,
Treccani, Guttuso, Birolli, Morlotti, Pomodoro, Fontana,
Capogrossi, and Reggiani, and ends with recent avant-garde
artists.
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Pinacoteca Civica
Il Guercino
Guercino Civic Art Gallery
address
phone +39 051/6843287 +39 051/6843334 fax +39 051/6843398
e-mail
web
Guercino, Sibyl, about 1620
Main hall with works by Guercino
Palazzo del Monte di Pietà, 1782,
which houses the Art Gallery
Guercino, Extracting hemp from the
retting pit, 1615
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Via Matteotti, 16 Cento
44042 FE
cultura@comune.cento.fe.it
http://guercino.comune.cento.fe.it/
The Art Gallery was built in the Palazzo del Monte Pietà (1782)
in 1839 to house the works of art that were recovered after the
Napoleonic requisitions; the Museum features the world’s
largest collection of masterpieces by Giovanni Francesco
Barbieri, also known as Guercino (1591-1666) and his followers.
The halls trace the Maestro’s artistic evolution: from the
impetuous, dramatic, chiaroscuro painting of his youth to the
classical painting of his adulthood, with aristocratic, idealized
images.
Caravaggio’s Cardsharps, from Sir Denis Mahon’s collection, was
recently exhibited here.
The Art Gallery also features masterpieces of Emilian Baroque
art and Nordic mannerism. Particular attention is given to the
sculptures of the Cento-born artist Stefano Galletti, who worked
throughout Italy in the second half of the 19th century.

Casa Museo
Remo Brindisi
Remo Brindisi Museum-Home
address
phone +39 0533/315805 +39 0533/315829 fax +39 0533/315814
e-mail
web
Mario Schifano, Untitled
Atrium of the Museum-Home
Arturo Martini, Woman sunbathing
Via Pisano, 45 Comacchio
Lido di Spina
44029 FE
musei@comune.comacchio.fe.it
www.comune.comacchio.fe.it; www.centri-contemporaneo-er.it
The Remo Brindisi Museum-Home, on the Lido di Spina
waterfront, was built between 1970 and 1973 by Remo Brindisi
as a summer home, art studio, rendezvous, and museum for
his collection.
Its rigorous exterior aspect conceals a glass, steel, and lightfilled
space that bears the distinctive mark of Nanda Vigo’s
project: the interplay and contrast with its surrounding
environment – the pine groves, the sea, and the beach.
The Museum-Home tells many tales: the life and work of Remo
Brindisi and his passion for collecting, which reached its apex
for his Milan-based contemporaries from the 1950s and 1960s,
including the great American and French artists who exhibited in
the most avant-garde galleries. The culture the Museum-Home
expresses remains lively and stimulating.
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Castello Estense
di Ferrara
Ferrara’s Castello Estense
address
phone +39 0532/299233 fax +39 0532/299279
e-mail
web
Ducal Chapel – Mirror Apartment,
about 1590
The Castello Estense – The Lion’s
Tower is in the foreground
The Hall of Games – Mirror
Apartment – Frescoes by S. Filippi,
a.k.a. Il Bastianino, - L. Settevecchi,
L. Da Brescia, about 1570
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Piazza Castello, 1 Ferrara
44121 FE
castello.estense@provincia.fe.it
www.castelloestense.it
Ferrara’s Castello Estense was built starting in 1385 by the
Marquis Nicolò III. The Este family – the feudal lords of the city –
built a huge fortress whose first floor was transformed, starting
in the late 15th century, first for Eleanor of Aragon and then for
the dukes Alfonso I, Ercole II and Alfonso II, into a sumptuous
palace with balconies, terraces, hanging gardens, and niches,
whose walls were decorated with works by great artists such
as Tiziano, Bellini, Dosso Dossi, Garofalo and Bastianino.
Today the Castle, whose layout was designed by Gae Aulenti,
is a UNESCO World Heritage Site dedicated to promoting
culture and illustrating the history of the Este family, the city of
Ferrara, and its surrounding. The more than fifty rooms are all
accessible to the disabled, and the Castle also features a café and
bookstore.

Museo Civico
di Storia Naturale
Civic Museum of Natural History
address
phone +39 0532/203381 fax +39 0532/210508
e-mail
web
Turritella fossils on host rock
Bivalve fossils on clastic rock
substrate
A hall in the “Earth’s
Environment” section
Via De Pisis, 24 Ferrara
44121 FE
museo.storianaturale@comune.fe.it
www.comune.fe.it/storianaturale/
Ferrara’s Civic Museum of Natural History, established in 1872,
has been in its current location since 1937. It has extensive
zoological, mineral, and geo-paleontological collections from
throughout the world. The “Earth’s Environment” section,
inaugurated in 1999, illustrates the various spatial and temporal
aspects of environmental diversity using models, dioramas,
and interactive displays. The museum runs an ecological station,
established in 1987, a specialized library open to the public,
and a very active education section. The museum publishes two
scientific journals and an online newsletter. It also features
a small bookshop and a café.
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Museo d’Arte Moderna
e Contemporanea
“Filippo de Pisis”
“Filippo de Pisis”
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
address
phone +39 0532/243415 fax +39 0532/205035
e-mail
web
Filippo de Pisis, The great flowers
in Massimo home, 1931
Achille Funi, Self-portrait with
mother and sister, about 1924
Roberto Melli, Composition
of objects, 1934
Filippo de Pisis, Portrait of Allegro,
1940
40
Corso Porta Mare, 9 Ferrara
44121 FE
artemoderna@comune.fe.it
www.artecultura.fe.it
The “Filippo de Pisis” Museum was re-designed in 1998, after
the works of De Pisis formerly belonging to Manlio and Franca
Malabotta were donated to his hometown of Ferrara: about
200 pieces of extraordinary quality along with those already
belonging to the Gallery give life to the largest and most
important public collection of De Pisis’ works. Along with the
De Pisis collection, the museum also displays works by the most
important artists who were born or lived in Ferrara in the 20th
century - Aroldo Bonzagni, Achille Funi, Mimì Quilici Buzzacchi,
Roberto Melli, Arrigo Minerbi, Enzo Nenci, Giuseppe Virgili and
Annibale Zucchini – and by other artists, such as Mario Sironi
and Carlo Carrà, who were not from Ferrara.

Museo
della Cattedrale
Museum of the Cathedral
address
phone +39 0532/244949 fax +39 0532/203064
e-mail
web
Cosmè Tura, Saint George slays the
dragon, 1469
Maestro dei Mesi, September,
about 1225-30
Jacopo della Quercia, Madonna
of the Pomegranate, 1403-06
G. Vendramin, Antiphonary II, c.
4v, Nativity, 1477-82
Via San Romano Ferrara
44121 FE
diamanti@comune.fe.it
www.comune.fe.it/museocattedrale
Established in 1929 in order to document the history of the city’s
main place of worship, the Museum of the Cathedral is the result
of joint efforts by the Cathedral Chapter and the Municipality of
Ferrara. It is regulated by an agreement, which is an exemplary
model of public-private management. In 2000, the museum
moved to its new premises in the former San Romano church.
Its collections feature material from the Early Middle Ages to the
19th century, some of which is owned by the clergy, and other by
the municipality. Highlights include sculptures by the Maestro
dei Mesi, Jacopo della Quercia’s Madonna of the Pomegranate,
the extraordinary organ shutters painted in 1469 by Cosmè Tura,
and an important series of 24 illuminated songbooks, including
some by Giovanni Vendramin.
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Museo
dell’Ottocento
Museum of the 19th century
address
phone +39 0532/243415 fax +39 0532/205035
e-mail
web
Angelo Conti, Allegory of the night,
1861
Gaetano Turchi, Torquato Tasso in
Sant’Anna, 1838
Giuseppe Mentessi, Venice.
San Marco Square in the evening,
1887-90
Gaetano Previati, Assumption,
about 1907
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Corso Porta Mare, 9 Ferrara
44121 FE
artemoderna@comune.fe.it
www.artecultura.fe.it
The Museum is located on the piano nobile of Palazzo Massari,
in several large rooms decorated with late 17th century frescoes
by Maurelio Scannavini and Giacomo Parolini. The Museum
traces the evolution of art in Ferrara over the course of the 19th
century: from the historical and literary painting of artists such
as Giovanni Pagliarini, Gaetano and Girolamo Domenichini,
Alessandro Mantovani, Massimiliano Lodi, and Gaetano Turchi,
who represented painting in the period prior to Risorgimento, to
the rooms dedicated to famous end-of-the-century painters such
as Gaetano Previati and Giuseppe Mentessi, whose works made
them stars of the Italian and European art scenes.

Museo
Giovanni Boldini
Giovanni Boldini Museum
address
phone +39 0532/243415 fax +39 0532/205035
e-mail
web
Corso Porta Mare, 9 Ferrara
44121 FE
artemoderna@comune.fe.it
www.artecultura.fe.it
Giovanni Boldini, Marina in Venice,
1909-10
Giovanni Boldini, The sisters
Lascaraky, 1869
Giovanni Boldini, Woman in black
who watches the “Pastel of Emiliana
Concha de Ossa”,about 1888
Giovanni Boldini, The lady in pink,
1916
Dedicated to one of the most important Italian painters of the
second half of the 19th century, the Boldini Museum is located
in a true museum-home, Palazzo Massari, where all
the works, furniture and objects from the artist’s Paris
apartment and studio recreate the atmosphere of his home
studio. The extensive collection encompasses every aspect and
phase of Boldini’s artistic production: from works from his youth
and years in Florence, his Paris paintings from the 1860s and
1870s, the large official portraits that gave him worldwide fame,
and his most intimate experiments, including exquisite still lifes,
splendid views of Venice, landscapes, and enchanting interior
scenes.
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Palazzina
Marfisa d’Este
address
phone +39 0532/244949 fax +39 0532/203064
e-mail
web
Loggia degli Aranci
The Facade
Girolamo da Carpi, Leonardo da
Brescia, Landscapes of Francesco
d’Este’s dominions, Grotta’s Hall,
after 1559
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Corso Giovecca, 170 Ferrara
44121 FE
arteantica@comune.fe.it
www.comune.fe.it/marfisa
The Palazzina Marfisa d’Este is an extraordinary example of
an aristocratic residence form the Este era. The building was
commissioned by the Marquis Francesco d’Este, son of Alfonso I
and Lucrezia Borgia, and construction began in 1559. It is located
near the Prospettiva della Giovecca portal, in the heart
of Ferrara’s Renaissance district. In 1578 the building was
inherited by the Marquis’ daughter Marfisa, a lover of the arts
and patron of the poet Torquato Tasso. Marfisa lived here until
her death in 1608. The municipality acquired the building in 1861,
and the museum itself was inaugurated in 1938. Today, as back
then, the museum’s main strengths lie in its sequence of halls
decorated with grottesche, the ancient furniture, the gardens, and
the galleries designed to be fundamental decorative elements, in
keeping with the building traditions and aesthetic choices typical
of aristocratic homes in the second half of the 16th century.

Palazzo Bonacossi
e Museo Riminaldi
Palazzo Bonacossi and Riminaldi Museum
address
phone +39 0532/244949 fax +39 0532/203064
e-mail
web
Litoteca, 1763
Anton von Maron, Portrait of the
Cardinal Gian Maria Riminaldi,
post1785
Doves of Pliny Mosaic, 18th century
Bacchanalia, pre 1781
Via Cisterna del Follo, 5 Ferrara
44121 FE
arteantica@comune.fe.it
www.comune.fe.it/bonacossi
Palazzo Bonacossi was built in the 15th century; Borso d’Este
assigned it to Diotisalvi Neroni, an exile from Florence.
An additional floor was added in the 16th century. In 1572, after
the building was acquired by the Este family, a series of gardens
was built that linked it directly with Palazzina Marfisa d’Este and,
through an exclusive passage on its southern side, with Palazzo
Schifanoia.
Palazzo Bonacossi still bears the name of the last family that
owned it, and today it houses the central offices of the Civic
Museums of Ancient Art, an art library, and the civic photo
archives. Palazzo Bonacossi also houses the Riminaldi Museum,
with a collection of marble sculptures, small bronze sculptures,
and exquisite furniture, mosaics, and paintings collected by the
Cardinal Riminaldi (1718-1789), one of the leading art collectors
in Ferrara in the 18th century.
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Palazzo Schifanoia
address
phone +39 0532/244949 fax +39 0532/203064
e-mail
web
Francesco del Cossa, Minerva’s
Triumph, March, about 1469
Francesco del Cossa, Taurus
and Deans, April, about 1469
Francesco del Cossa, Minerva’s
Triumph, March, about 1469
45
Via Scandiana, 23 Ferrara
44121 FE
arteantica@comune.fe.it
www.comune.fe.it/schifanoia
Palazzo Schifanoia, which was built starting in 1385 and enlarged
under Borso d’Este around 1470, is the only existing example
of an Este residence dedicated to leisure: indeed, the name
Schifanoia derives from the Italian “schivare la noia”, meaning
“escaping boredom”. The piano nobile features the famous
frescos depicting the Cycle of the Months painted between 1469
and 1470 by Francesco del Cossa, Ercole de’ Roberti and other
artists, one of the most renowned examples of Renaissance art.
Since 1898 Palazzo Schifanoia has housed the collections of
the Civic Museums of Ancient Art, which are displayed on a
rotation basis in the 15th century halls and the 14th century
wing of the building. Some of the most noteworthy items
include an interesting collection of Renaissance-era pottery, an
extensive numismatic collection, some extraordinary illuminated
manuscripts, and a collection of ivory and bronze bas reliefs.

Museo del Bosco
e del Cervo della Mesola
Museum of the Mesola
Forest and Red Deer
address
phone +39 0533/993358 fax +39 0533/993358
e-mail
web
The Mesola Red Deer
Mesola’s Castello Estense
View of the hall dedicated
to the Mesola Red Deer
Replica of some typical Po Delta
habitats
Piazza Umberto I Mesola
44026 FE
iat@comune.mesola.fe.it
www.comune.mesola.fe.it
Mesola’s Castello Estense (1578-1583), built as a summer
residence and hunting lodge for Alfonso II d’ Este, houses the
Museum of the Mesola Forest and Red Deer, which, starting
from the origins and evolution of the Po Delta, describes and
crosses its various ecosystems, with particular attention to areas
that fall within station n. 1 “Volano Mesola-Goro”.
The Red Deer Museum occupies a significant portion of the
Centre, and includes studies, panels, and dioramas that help
visitors understand, from a scientific point of view, the evolution
of this genetically, morphologically, and behaviourally unique
animal.
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Museo Civico
del Territorio
Civic Museum
of the Local Territory
address
phone +39 0533/681368 fax +39 0533/681368
e-mail
web
Panel on the evolution of Planet
Earth and its transformations
Museum entrance
View of the ground floor
View of the first floor
47
Strada del Mezzano, 14 Ostellato
44020 FE
mdtost@libero.it; museodelterritorio@atlantide.net
www.comune.ostellato.fe.it; www.atlantide.net/museodelterritorio
The Ostellato Civic Museum illustrates the evolution of Planet
Earth and mankind, and traces the history of the relationship
between humans and the natural environment, made of mutual
influences and transformations. The exhibition, designed
especially from the former Corte Valle barn, begins on the
ground floor with a section on the evolution of the land and
of mankind in the Po Plain, and continues on the first floor
with a section on the history of the Po Delta and the changes
in its landscape. A particularly excellent section deals with
the Etruscan era and the town of Spina, beautifully evoking its
everyday life. Interactive stations with maps, photos, videos,
and text provide an important learning tool. A wide array
of educational activities targeting children and adolescents
includes guided tours, experimental workshops, and creative
games.

Forlì-Cesena

IDRO
Ecomuseo delle Acque
di Ridracoli
IDRO
Eco-museum of Waters of Ridracoli
address
phone +39 0543/917912 fax +39 0543/903733
e-mail
web
Dam overflow
Museum exterior
The Ridracoli dam
Borgo di Ridracoli Bagno di Romagna
47021 FC
ladigadiridracoli@atlantide.net
www.atlantide.net/idro
Located within the Foreste Casentinesi National Park, with
the scenic backdrop of Ridracoli Lake, Idro has been open to
the public since summer 2004. The Eco-museum features a
headquarters and three thematic stations: a technology station
dedicated to dam construction techniques, a natural history
station on the National Park’s habitats, and a landscape station
dedicated to studies on the local territory. The headquarters
includes halls on the local landscape and aquatic habitats,
including a spectacular 3D video hall where the 3D movie “The
water of the oracles” is screened. The Museum also features a
library, bar, and well-stocked museum shop. Additionally, visitors
can rent canoes, go trekking, ride an electric boat, or grab a bite
to eat at the café.
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Fondazione
Museo Interreligioso
di Bertinoro
Bertinoro Interreligious
Museum Foundations
address
phone +39 0543/446600 fax +39 0543/446557
e-mail
web
Decorations in the Hall of Islam
Hall of Judaism
Hall of Islam
Francesco Messina, Adam’s tears,
1929
Rembrandt, Christ before Pilate,
1636
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Via Frangipane, 6 Bertinoro
47032 FC
musint.bertinoro@libero.it
www.museointerreligioso.it
The Interreligious Museum, housed in the dungeons of
Bertinoro’s 11th century Rocca Vescovile is the only museum
in Italy dealing with relations and dialogue between Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam. The art collection includes works by
Rembrandt, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Francesco Messina, and Giacomo
Manzù, as well as precious editions of sacred texts and fine
pieces by Christian, Jewish, and Muslim jewellers. Visitors to
the Museum’s dungeons will embark on a fascinating journey
to discover beauty and art, the true language of dialogue
between the three Abrahamic religions and the peoples of the
Mediterranean.

Museo e Biblioteca
Renzi
Renzi Museum and Library
address
phone +39 0541/939028 fax +39 0541/939028
e-mail
web
Replica of a proto-historic village
Roman lapidarium
Exhibit on proto-history
Renzi Museum exterior
Via Matteotti, 27
Loc. San Giovanni in Galilea
museorenzi@libero.it
www.museorenzi.it
Ente Morale Museo
e Biblioteca Renzi
Borghi
47030 FC
The Renzi Museum, located in the gorgeous Medieval burg
of S.Giovanni in Galilea, is one of Italy’s oldest museums. It is
housed in the compound that belonged to the Malatesta dynasty
between the 13th and 17th centuries. It was founded
by Francesco Renzi and inaugurated in 1879; a few years later the
renowned archaeologist, Senator Giuseppe Fiorelli, facilitated its
establishment as a charitable trust with the title of Renzi Museum
and Library (Royal Decree of March 5, 1885). Recently restored
and re-arranged, it displays valuable collections of proto-historic
material (Proto-Villanovian and Villanovian cultures), along
with material from the Roman era, the Middle Ages, and the
Renaissance, in addition to majolica pottery, seals, and fossils.
The exhibits are enhanced by illustrated panels
and spectacular dioramas.
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Museo Archeologico
Archaeological Museum
address
phone +39 0547/355727 fax +39 0547/355721
e-mail
web
Polychrome majolica, second half
of the 15th century
Replica of a bronze age hut
The exhibition
Bronze lamp, early 1st century AD
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Via Montalti, 6 Cesena
47521 FC
iat@comune.cesena.fc.it
www.cesenacultura.it
Cesena’s Archaeological Museum, housed in the magnificent
Malatesta Library, was inaugurated in 1969. It displays some
of the most important archaeological finds from Cesena and
its surroundings, ranging from the first prehistoric settlements
to the Roman era, Cesena’s rebirth in the Middle Ages, and the
Malatesta era.
Since 1999 the museum has been hosting educational
workshops that provide historic and artistic information on the
city’s various eras. The students and adults involved reproduce
some of the objects typical of the various historic periods
described in the museum, and improve their manual skills and
creativity. On the occasion of the re-designing of the museum in
2009, a plastic replica of a hut from the late Bronze Age (middle
of the third millennium BC) village of Provezza was added to the
displays.

Pinacoteca Comunale
Municipal Art Gallery
address
phone +39 0547/355727 fax +39 0547/355721
e-mail
web
Giovan Battista Salvi, a.k.a. Il
Sassoferrato, Praying Virgin Mary,
17th century
Hall 3
Contemporary Art Section
Antonio Aleotti, Madonna in
a throne with Child, Anthony
the Abbot and Saint Gabriel the
Archangel, 1511
Ceramic art by Angelo Biancini
Via Aldini, 26 Cesena
47521 FC
iat@comune.cesena.fc.it
www.cesenacultura.it
The collection of paintings owned by the municipality was
acquired in the 19th and 20th centuries, but it has only recently
found a stable home – after a series of moves since 1883 – in
the former San Biagio monastery. The Art Gallery’s substantial
patrimony includes over 300 paintings and sculpture from the
15th to the 20th centuries, with works by Aleotti, Piazzetta,
Sassoferrato, Veronesi, Guttuso, Schifano, and Biancini.
For many years now, the Art Gallery has offered afternoon
classes for kids and lively educational workshops for students
and families, whose activities involve adults and children and
encourage them to use their senses to expresses themselves
through various techniques and languages. In remembrance of
these experiences, visitors craft various different objects, thus
establishing an interactive relationship with the museum.
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Casa Museo
Marino Moretti
Marino Moretti Museum-Home
address
phone +39 0547/79279 fax +39 0547/79121
e-mail
web
Marino Moretti in 1909
Detail of the writing desk
Exterior of the museum-home
The writing desk with folder, ink
bottles, pens, and nibs.
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Via Moretti, 1 Cesenatico
47042 FC
casamoretti@cesenatico.it
www.casamoretti.it
In his 1978 will, Marino Moretti left his books and autographed
papers to the Cesenatico Municipal Library. His sister Ines, in
keeping with his wishes, donated his house on the canal to the
Municipality of Cesenatico in 1980, so that the writer’s library
and archives could be preserved in their original location, for
purposes of “research, teaching, and education”.
The Moretti Museum-Home was established to fulfil these two
wishes, and has become an important centre of research on 20th
century literature.
The institute promotes cultural and research activities along with
the conservation and promotion of its patrimony. Additionally,
Casa Moretti, whose original furnishings have been scrupulously
preserved, is a museum-home open to visitors interested in
Marino Moretti, the man and the writer.

Museo della Marineria
dell’Alto e Medio Adriatico
Maritime Museum of the
Upper and Middle Adriatic
address
phone +39 0547/79205 fax +39 0547/79254
e-mail
web
Interior of the museum’s land
section
Via Armellini, 18 Cesenatico
47042 FC
museomarineria@cesenatico.it
www.museomarineria.eu
The Maritime Museum is closely linked to the canal port,
designed by Leonardo da Vinci, which runs through the town’s
historic centre and houses the museum’s floating section, which
was inaugurated in 1983 and features eleven traditional Adriatic
vessels, three of which are still in operation in order to maintain
traditional sailing techniques alive. The land section was opened
in 2005. Housed in a pavilion designed to recall ancient arsenals,
it features evocative exhibits on traditional sailing in the upper
and middle Adriatic. The displays are centred on two fully
equipped traditional vessels (locally known, respectively,
as trabaccolo and bragozzo). The first floor illustrates ship design
and construction, while the second floor is dedicated to life
at sea, fishing, sailing, and magic and religious symbols.
Several short videos can be viewed, including 3D animations
and vintage films.
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Armeria Albicini
Albicini Armory
address
phone +39 0543/712606 fax +39 0543/712618
e-mail
web
Albicini Armory, Trophy of arms
Albicini Armory Halls
55
Corso della Repubblica, 72 Forlì
47121 FC
servizio.pinacoteca.musei@comune.forli.fc.it
www.cultura.comune.forli.fc.it
The museum’s holdings are for the most part made up of
weapons collected by the Marquis Raffaello Albicini. The
collection, with items from the 15th to the 19th century, includes
almost every type of pole weapon – falchions, partisans,
billhooks, corsecas, halberds, quarrels, and lances – and
numerous examples of body armour, foremost among which are
parts of the tournament armour that once belonged to Brunoro
Zampeschi, Lord of Forlimpopoli, in the second half of the 16th
century. There are also horse bridles, chainmail armour, morning
stars, and war hammers, along with numerous swords, including
a horseman’s longsword, Venetian schiavona swords, “paloscio”
hunting knives, and cup-hilt rapiers. Since 1958, an annex to
the armoury displays a collection of weapons and musical
instruments from the former Belgian Congo donated by Virginia
Pedriali.

Musei San Domenico
San Domenico Museums
address
phone +39 0543/712659 fax +39 0543/712658
e-mail
web
Antonio Canova, Hebe, 1816-17
Art gallery, hall 12
Museum exterior: the cloister
Piazza Guido da Montefeltro, 12 Forlì
47121 FC
museisandomenico.forli@comune.forli.fc.it
www.cultura.comune.forli.fc.it
The prestigious San Giacomo Apostolo compound, a former
convent in San Domenico that has recently been renovated and
restored, is the new home of the Art Gallery and Civic Museums.
Works currently displayed therein are from the 12th to 18th
centuries. The right wing of the compound houses the most
ancient works: the Tryptych by the Maestro di Forlì, paintings
by Beato Angelico, the funeral monument of Beato Marcolino
by Antonio Rossellino, Palmezzano’s large Crucifixion; the left
wing houses works by Palmezzano, Baldassarre Carrari, and
Francesco Zaganelli and paintings ranging from 16th century
paintings from Romagna to Mannerism. Canova’s Hebe was
transferred here in January 2009, on the occasion of exhibition
titled Canova: the classic ideal between painting and sculpture.
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Museo Etnografico
Romagnolo Pergoli
Pergoli Museum
of Ethnography in Romagna
address
phone +39 0543/712606 fax +39 0543/712618
e-mail
web
Tavern, wall decorations
Tavern
Kitchen
“Rust” printing press
57
Corso della Repubblica, 72 Forlì
47121 FC
servizio.pinacoteca.musei@comune.forli.fc.it
www.cultura.comune.forli.fc.it
The origins of the Museum date back to the Esposizioni
Romagnole Riunite fair held in Forlì in 1921, which intended
to showcase Romagna’s agricultural, artisanal, and industrial
output and contribute to the region’s economic and moral
recovery. An exhibition on ethnography in Romagna was thus
staged, which included replicas of typical homes and artisans’
workshops; in 1922 this exhibition was converted into a museum.
The section on the first floor of Palazzo del Merenda is still
largely unchanged since then, and features a kitchen, small
dining room, master bedroom, tavern, and canteen, along with
some traditional artisans’ workshops such as a “rust” printing
press, a luthier’s workshop, and a blacksmith’s workshop.
The halls display furniture from Romagna, folk pottery, and a
collection of “caveje” (decorated steel poles typical of Romagna)
and wedding outfits from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Pinacoteca Civica
Melozzo degli Ambrogi
Melozzo degli Ambrogi
Civic Art Gallery
address
phone +39 0543/712606 +39 0543/712609 fax +39 0543/712618
e-mail
web
J. Sablet, First steps, second half
of the 18th century.
Palazzo del Merenda, salon
Corso della Repubblica, 72 Forlì
47121 FC
servizio.pinacoteca.musei@comune.forli.fc.it
www.cultura.comune.forli.fc.it
The Art Gallery dates back to 1838, when it received the
municipal administration’s remaining artwork after the
Napoleonic purges. In 1922 it was transferred to its current
location, which had been designed by Giuseppe Merenda
and built in 1722 as a hospital for the infirm. The central hall
displays large paintings by Francesco Albani, Andrea Sacchi,
Guido Cagnacci, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri also known as
Il Guercino, Carlo Maratta and Carlo Cignani. Some of the
Museum’s most important collections include: the collection of
paintings donated by Piancastelli in 1938; the Pedriali collection,
with some paintings by the Flemish masters and the large Oxen
cart by Fattori; the Righini donation, with etchings and three
oil paintings by Giorgio Morandi; and Giuseppe Verzocchi’s
collection dedicated to work, and made up of 70 paintings
commissioned in 1949 to the leading 20th century Italian artists.
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Museo Civico
Mons. Domenico Mambrini
The Monsignor Domenico Mambrini
Civic Museum
address
phone +39 0543/981854 +39 0543/975428 fax +39 0543/981021
e-mail
web
Nursing Madonna, 15th century
Grave goods from the 4th or
5th century, from the Mevaniola
necropolis
Bas-relief depicting the meeting
between Saint Ellero and
Theodoric
Monastery of the Order of Friars
Minor in Pianetto, 16th century,
home of the museum
59
Via Pianetto Borgo Galeata
47010 FC
museomambrini@libero.it
www.museocivicomambrini.it
The Museum is housed in the Monastery of the Order of
Friars Minor in Pianetto, near the ancient Roman town and
archaeological site of Mevaniola. The historical-artistic section
features a rather heterogeneous collection of historic and artistic
works, the most notable of which include two late-17th century
Vanitas and a coat of arms in pietra serena sandstone attributed
to Desiderio da Settignano. The archaeological section begins
in the hall dedicated to the collection of Monsignor Domenico
Mambrini and continues with halls dedicated to the historical
and archaeological sites near Galeata (Mevaniola, Theodoric’s
Villa, and the Abbey of Saint Ellero). The Museum has a varied
programme of events (conferences, conventions, exhibitions,
and guided tours), workshops, and educational activities for
schoolchildren and adults, which provide a dynamic way to
approach archaeology and ancient art.

Fondazione
Tito Balestra Onlus
Tito Balestra Foundation
address
phone +39 0547/665850 +39 0547/665420 fax +39 0547/667007
e-mail
web
Ground floor hall, Giorgio Amelio
Roccamonte, Desert flowers, 1972-73
Maccari hall
Hall dedicated to Tito
Piazza Malatestiana, 1 Longiano
47020 FC
info@fondazionetitobalestra.org
www.fondazionetitobalestra.org
The Foundation bears the name of the poet Tito Balestra
(1923-1976), whose relationships with the leading artists of
his time, based on friendship and mutual respect, allowed
him to accumulate this collection of extraordinary works,
a comprehensive overview of 20th century visual culture.
The Museum is located in Longiano’s Malatesta Castle: this
perfectly restored fortress houses the marvellous collection
– one of Emilia-Romagna’s richest – of figurative art, which
includes over 2,300 works by the leading 20th century Italian
artists – from Rosai to Maccari, from Sironi to Morandi – and a
valuable collection of graphic art by foreign artists such as Goya,
Chagall, Matisse. The Foundation also organizes temporary
exhibitions, particularly on the relationship between the highest
art, literature, and poetry. The Museum is noteworthy for its
educational activities.
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Galleria d’Arte
Contemporanea
Vero Stoppioni
Vero Stoppioni
Contemporary Art Gallery
address
phone +39 0543/975428 +39 0543/981854 fax +39 0543/970345
e-mail
web
Mattia Moreni, La Mistura,
1976-84
Gallery interior
Santa Sofia sculpture garden
61
Viale Roma, 5A Santa Sofia
47018 FC
cultura@comune.galeata.fo.it
www.comune.santa-sofia.fo.it
The Art Gallery dedicated to Vero Stoppioni was inaugurated in
1990 to house the paintings collected during the various editions
of the Campigna Award. It is housed in an early-20th century
building, whose architecture harmoniously complements the
contemporary art works.
The collection showcases some of the most significant Italian
artistic currents from the 1950s to the present day: Neo-realism,
Pop Art, Informal Art, Abstract Art, Nouvelle Figuration, up to the
latest trends.
The Gallery reserves a special place for Mattia Moreni, who
participated in various editions of the Campigna Award and
established a close relationship with Santa Sofia.
An outdoor sculpture garden associated with the Stoppioni
Gallery features works by renowned artists. It is located along
the Bidente river.

Museo Archeologico
del Compito
Don Giorgio Franchini
The Don Giorgio Franchini
Archaeological Museum
address
phone +39 0541/944851 fax +39 0541/944851
e-mail
web
Marble female statue, 2nd century
AD
Portion of the floor of a Roman
country villa, made up of small
brick tiles, 1st century AD
Fluted column segment, 1st
century AD
Via San Giovanni, 7 Savignano sul Rubicone
47039 FC
info@museodelcompito.com
www.museodelcompito.com
Founded in early 1930s thanks to Don Franchini, parish priest for
S. Giovanni in Compito, since 1998 the museum is housed in its
own building, next to the rural church. The ancient Romanesque
church was built in the 7th century where the ancient Roman
site of Ad Confluentes once stood, where the Via Emilia crossed
the hill road between Sarsina and Ravenna. This ancient site is
also mentioned in the Itinerarium Burdigalense under the name
mutaio Competu, attesting to the presence of a horse-changing
post. The remains of large columns also indicate that a religious
building or rural sanctuary (from the early Roman Empire) was
located there; indeed, the presence of the rural church shows
that the site has been in continuous use as a place of worship.
There are also some interesting proto-historic items, including a
group of 12 furnaces from the 7th century BC, which testify to the
human presence in the area in the pre-Roman era.
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Modena

Museo
della Civiltà Contadina
Museum of Peasant History and Life
address
phone +39 059/800912 +39 059/904866 fax +39 059/815132
e-mail
web
L25 Landini “hotbulb” tractor.
“The priest”: a wooden bed
warmer, with “nun” for the hot
coals
Detail of the cereal sorter
Piazza Repubblica, 51 Bastiglia
41030 MO
museo@comune.bastiglia.mo.it
www.comune.bastiglia.mo.it
The Museum of Peasant History and Life – established by
the municipal administration in 1977 – is housed in a historic
building. It displays and valorises collections regarding the
contemporary rural culture of the Modena plain, as well as other
items related to the history of Bastiglia, the 15th century Conca
on the Naviglio canal, and the ancient Estense mill. It aims to be
an ecomuseum. The museum chooses to use evocative displays,
which deal with working and cultivating the soil, the processing
of agricultural and dairy products, private life and childhood
in the rural world, and the role of artisanal work in the rural
economy. The Agricultural Machinery Pavilion is associated with
the museum; it displays large agricultural machinery, such as
historic tractors (including a FIAT prototype), and a big threshing
machine.
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Museo
della Bilancia
Balance Scale Museum
address
phone +39 059/527133 fax +39 059/527084
e-mail
web
Steelyard for weighing barrels,
detail of the shaft
Gallery of platform scales
and large scales
Detail of the interactive
multimedia displays designed
with fuse*creative_lab
Museum exterior
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Via Garibaldi, 34A Campogalliano
41011 MO
infomuseo@museodellabilancia.it
www.museodellabilancia.it
The Balance Scale Museum, the only one of its kind in Italy,
documents the history of weighing and measuring from the
Middle Ages to the present day. It displays balance scales,
platform scales, steelyards, and a wide array of documents
including posters, catalogues, original prints, and photographs
of vintage equipment. The Museum is an integral part of the
productive system of the area, for which it serves both as historic
archive of sorts and as a hub for historic, technical, and scientific
knowledge. Since 1991 it is also a National Documentation
Centre, which is authorized to collect, organize, and disseminate
documentation that will help broaden the scope of research
on balance scales.

Musei
di Palazzo dei Pio
Museums of Palazzo dei Pio
address
phone +39 059/649360 fax +39 059/649361
e-mail
web
E. Ximenes, Bust of Giuseppe
Garibaldi, about 1890
Antonin Mercié, David vainqueur,
1872-99
The City Museum
Palazzo dei Pio, Renaissance
facade
Piazza dei Martiri, 68 Carpi
41012 MO
musei@carpidiem.it
www.palazzodeipio.it/imusei
The Museums of Palazzo dei Pio comprise the Museum of
Palazzo dei Pio and the City Museum.
The Museum of Palazzo dei Pio is dedicated to Palazzo dei
Pio’s art, architecture, and history, the Pio family’s rule, and
the Renaissance court. It houses the most important of the
museum’s collections, which blend in with the surroundings in
which they are displayed: paintings, xylographs, ancient wooden
pieces, and decorated ceramic pottery.
The City Museum documents the history of the Carpi area, and
of the establishment and development of the town itself, from
the first Terramare settlements (16th century BC) until the last
century, and traces its environmental, social, economic, cultural,
and urban development.
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Museo Monumento
al Deportato politico
e razziale nei campi
di sterminio nazisti
Museum and Monument of Political and Racial
Deportees to Nazi Extermination Camps
address
phone +39 059/649978 +39 059/688272 fax +39 059/688483
e-mail
web
Hall 2: graffiti on drawing by
Alberto Longoni
View of hall 11
Hall 11: quote from “Letters of
European Resistance Fighters about
to be Executed”
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Piazza dei Martiri, 68 Carpi
41012 MO
fondazione.fossoli@carpidiem.it
www.fondazionefossoli.org
The Museum and Monument of Political and Racial Deportees
occupies a special place in Italian and international memorial
architecture. Inaugurated in 1973, it embodies a commitment
to keeping alive the memory of the victims of deportation, as
documented by the Fossoli concentration camp.
The museum has 13 halls occupying a large space on the ground
floor of Palazzo dei Pio. Displays are spare: the graffiti on the
walls and the symbolic images in the reliquaries blend in with the
rigorous architectural structure, creating a highly evocative visual
impact.
Several renowned artists contributed to the creation
of the museum: the BBPR studio for architectural planning and
restoration, Albe and Lica Steiner for the exhibits themselves,
Guttuso for selecting the artwork, and Nelo Risi for selecting
texts.

Museo Civico
Archeologico
“Anton Celeste Simonini”
“Anton Celeste Simonini”
Civic Museum of Archaeology
address
phone +39 059/959367 fax +39 059/950366
e-mail
web
Detail of the decoration of a
ceramic mug, 8th century BC.
Epitaph, Age of Augusts
Terracotta female head, first half
of the 1st century BC.
Fragment of blown glass wall,
Imperial Age
Corso Martiri, 204 Castelfranco Emilia
41013 MO
museocivico@comune.castelfranco-emilia.mo.it
www.comune.castelfranco-emilia.mo.it
Castelfranco Emilia’s Civic Museum of Archaeology was
established in 1999 to house the material from the civic
collection and from local archaeological digs.
The Museum, located in Palazzo Piella, traces the history of
human settlement in the Castelfranco area from proto-history –
the emergence of the Terramare culture during the Bronze Age
– until the establishment of the Borgo Franco in the 13th century,
the precursor to the modern town of Castelfranco. Of particular
importance is the aes signatum deposit discovered in 1897: the
embossed cast lumps of bronze it contained date back to the
6th century BC. The museum also stages exhibitions and hosts
conferences, publishes the journal Pagani e Cristiani. Forme e
attestazioni di religiosità nel mondo antico in Emilia (Pagans and
Christians. Forms and attestations of religiousness in ancient
Emilia) and has an educational program targeting local schools.
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Museo della Ceramica
Museum of Ceramic Pottery
address
phone +39 0536/833412 fax +39 0536/832728
e-mail
web
Ludovico Asirelli, Graffa, 1971
Roman hall, replica of pottery kiln
Replica of Bronze Age cup
Contemporary hall: tile displays
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Via del Castello, 12
Loc. Spezzano
cultura@fiorano.it
www.fiorano.it/turismo/cultura/museo.shtm
Fiorano Modenese
41042 MO
The Museum of Ceramic Pottery uses a technological approach
to describe the thousands of years of history of ceramic
pottery. Instruments, ceramics, and kilns, reconstructed using
experimental archaeology techniques, trace the history of
decorations and production techniques, while the contemporary
section documents, through the eyes of the main protagonists,
ancient industrial skills and the first steps of mechanization.
The Museum, which is fully integrated into the local
manufacturing district, displays serially-produced ceramic tiles
from the pre-World War II period to the present day.
Its Contemporary Collection features works of art, design,
and architectural ceramics crafted for the Ceramics Biennials.
Every day, the museum’s Manodopera project collects and
preserves documents, objects, videos, photographs and other
items that help reconstruct the history of the world of ceramics.

Museo e Centro
di documentazione
del Castello
Museum of the Castle
and Documentation Centre
address
phone +39 059/416145 fax +39 059/416143
e-mail
web
“Time”
The registry of depositions
The clock room
The Castle of Formigine
Piazza Calcagnini Formigine
41043 MO
castello@comune.formigine.mo.it
www.comune.formigine.mo.it
Thanks to its over 800 years of history, the Castle of Formigine is
a formidable “time machine”. The Museum and Documentation
Centre is dedicated to this extraordinary voyage from the Middle
Ages to the present day. It traces the history of the castle and
its inhabitants, whose most important aspects were uncovered
by archaeological studies carried out by Venice’s Ca’ Foscari
University, including the discovery of the ancient church of S.
Bartolomeo, the cemetery, and the late-Medieval burg, all of
which preceded the establishment of the castle. The narrative of
the museum, which is located in the “rocchetta”, is inspired by
the very places in which it is set.
The scientific, yet captivating displays are made possible by the
sensitive environments created by Studio Azzurro, which can be
activated by a visitor’s mere presence or movement.
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Museo Civico
di Mirandola
Civic Museum of Mirandola
address
phone +39 0535/609985 +39 0535/609995 fax +39 0535/609998
e-mail
web
Detail of the archaeological
collection
Guercino (attribuited), Madonna
with Child, 1750-60
Portraits of Pico family
Carabini Hall
70
Piazza Marconi, 23 Mirandola
41037 MO
cultura@comune.mirandola.mo.it
www.castellopico.it
The Civic Museum of Mirandola is housed in the Pico Castle,
the prestigious home of the aristocratic family who ruled the city
for 400 years, from 1311 to 1710. The exhibits are organized in
twelve sections, which trace a varied portrait of the city’s historical
and artistic heritage. The museum includes an archaeological
collection; a collection of coins and medals belonging to the Pico
family; artwork created for religious institutions; portraits of Pico
and Este family members along with those of illustrious citizens
of Mirandola in the 18th and 19th centuries, a section dedicated
to the philosophers Giovanni and Giovan Francesco Pico; a room
devoted to music; works that were donated (paintings, ancient
furniture, and an extensive collection of prints depicting the local
area) or the local Monte di Pietà pawnbroker; and a collection of
weapons from the 15th and 16th centuries.

Galleria Civica
di Modena
Modena Civic Gallery
address
phone +39 059/2032911 fax +39 059/2032932
e-mail
web
Katharina Grosse, Another man
who has dropped his paintbrush,
2008
Laura Renna, Moquette Area
Progetto, 2007
Adrian Paci, The Princess, 2003
Palazzina dei Giardini, Modena per
la Fotografia exhibition 2003
Corso Canalgrande, 103 Modena
41121 MO
galcivmo@comune.modena.it
www.galleriacivicadimodena.it
The Civic Gallery (Palazzina dei Giardini and Palazzo Santa
Margherita) is one of Italy’s most authoritative centres of
culture. It organizes temporary exhibitions, conferences, and
meetings on issues and people related to contemporary art and
photography. It is also active in terms of collection, through
the acquisition, conservation, management, and promotion
of three important collections: the Contemporary Drawing
Collection, with over 4,000 drawings from 20th century Italian
artists; the Contemporary Photography Collection, with over 3,500
photographs from leading international photographers; and the
Don Casimiro Bettelli Collection, on loan from the Archiepiscopal
Curia of Modena, which features about 800 works, drawings,
and graphic art by internationally renowned artists from the
second half of the 20th century.
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Museo Civico
Archeologico Etnologico
Civic Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology
address
phone +39 059/2033100 fax +39 059/2033110
e-mail
web
Ceremonial feather headdress,
Munduruku Indians
Central Amazon basin, first half
of the 19th century
Carinated bowl, Sant’Ambrogio,
Middle Bronze Age 1450-1350 BC
Hall of archaeology
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Largo Porta Sant’Agostino, 337 Modena
41121 MO
museo.archeologico@comune.modena.it
www.comune.modena.it/museoarcheologico
The Civic Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology was founded
in 1871. Its 19th century origin is showcased in the current layout,
which has maintained the 19th century furniture and decorations
essentially unchanged, a particularly remarkable feature on the
Italian museum scene.
The largest collection concerns the Terramare culture, ancient
inhabitants of the Po Plain during the Bronze Age. There are
also extensive Etruscan and Roman collections, including fine
furnishings and decorations from wealthy patrician domus. The
Roman Lapidarium in the atrium of the Palazzo dei Musei is an
extension of the Roman section.
The extra-European ethnography section includes items
testifying to cultures that are now extinct or nearly so, with
material from New Guinea, Pre-Colombian Peru, Asia, South
America, and Africa.

Museo Civico d’Arte
Civic Art Museum
address
phone +39 059/2033100 +39 059/2033101 fax +39 059/2033110
e-mail
web
Antonio Begarelli, Crucified Christ,
1540-50
The prestigious textile collection
donated by Luigi Alberto Gandini
The “Giuseppe Graziosi”
Gypsotheque on the ground
floor of Palazzo dei Musei
Largo Porta Sant’Agostino, 337 Modena
41121 MO
museo.arte@comune.modena.it
www.comune.modena.it/museoarte
The Civic Art Museum was established in 1962 when the 19th
century museum was divided into two distinct institutes,
one focusing on archaeology, the other on history and art.
Founded in 1871, since 1886 the Museum has been housed the
18th century Palazzo dei Musei. The collections, built through
prestigious donations, acquisitions, and locally-recovered
artwork, documents numerous aspects of Modena’s history
and culture from the 12th to the 20th centuries through a wide
array of works. Quite remarkably, the basic layout of the 19th
century museum has survived to this day, thanks to museum
conservation efforts carried out in the 1980s. The museum is
also active locally through the conservation and valorisation of
municipally-owned art, and is also responsible for coordinating
the Modena UNESCO site, which includes the Duomo, the
“Ghirlandina” Tower, and Piazza Grande.
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Museo della Figurina
Trading Card Museum
address
phone +39 059/2033090 +39 059/2032940 fax +39 059/2033087
e-mail
web
Kunstschau Wien, letter seal, 1908
Section on modern trading cards
John Lennon, trading card from the
series The Beatles, 1964
Glass display case for temporary
exhibition
74
Corso Canalgrande, 103 Modena
41121 MO
museo.figurina@comune.modena.it
www.museodellafigurina.it
The Trading Card Museum was established by the Panini Trading
Card Company, thanks to the enthusiastic collecting efforts
of Giuseppe Panini, who founded the museum along with his
brothers Benito, Franco Cosimo, and Umberto. As part of an
attempt to document the origins and development of trading
cards, he collected hundreds of thousands of small colour prints,
which over time formed an extraordinary collection in both
quantitative and qualitative terms, which was donated to the
Municipality of Modena in 1992.
Since 2006, the Museum’s original displays have aimed to recreate
a sort of “trading card wonderland”, featuring not only
trading cards from the mid-19th century to the present day,
but also matchboxes, letter seals, banknotes, menus, miniature
calendars, and much more.

Raccolta di
Cose Montesine
Collection of Things from Montese
address
phone +39 059/980095 +39 320/4397331 fax
e-mail
web
Chestnut Hall
American Soldiers 10a Mountain
Division Hall
231st Infantry Division of the
Wehrmacht Army Hall
Main entrance of the Museum
Via Trebbo,1
Loc. Iola di Montese
info@sulleormedeinostripadri.it
www.sulleormedeinostripadri.it/museo
Montese
41055 MO
Established in 1992, the Museum of Iola di Montese is housed
in the 17th century parsonage of the adjacent parish church. The
museum was founded thanks to the efforts of the parish priest at
the time, the Il Trebbo cultural group, and local inhabitants. It is
currently housed on three floors, with 15 rooms, each devoted to a
specific theme, hosting over 4,000 objects and documents.
The collections, which include donated and salvaged items,
document the history of this part of the Apennines from the
17th to the mid-20th centuries: art made by peasants, the World
War II era, archaeological finds, geological items, and a series of
helmets, pole weapons, rifles, and pistols from the 17th and 18th
centuries, when the area was ruled by the Counts of Montecuccoli.
The museum’s setting in a local stone house, its depictions of the
history of our ancestors under different points of views and over a
lengthy time span, and its proximity to pristine natural landscapes
make for a relaxing and unusual cultural outing.
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Museo di Nonantola
Nonantola Museum
address
phone +39 059/896555 +39 059/896656 fax +39 059/896556
e-mail
web
Fragment of polychrome graffita
pottery bowl with bird illustration
Gold leaf, Bronze Age,
Terramara settlement of Redù
Palm-shaped terracotta antefix with
stylized plant elements, Roman era
Notice from the Mayor
of Nonantola, 1874
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Via Marconi, 11 Nonantola
41015 MO
archivio@comune.nonantola.mo.it
www.comune.nonantola.mo.it
The Nonantola Museum is housed in the Torre dei Bolognesi,
one of the town’s most important monuments, which dates
back to 1307. The Museum’s four floors tell the tale of the town,
following an inverted chronological order that starts from the
contemporary era and ends with the Bronze Age, focusing on
three key threads: the evolution of the town, changes in the
landscape, and the development of the local community.
A wide range of material is on display: archaeological finds,
documents, photographs, everyday objects, all of which originate
from the Nonantola area. The exhibition ends on the top floor,
which looks out over Nonantola and its constant activity and
changes.

Museo dell’Aceto Balsamico
Tradizionale
Museum of Traditional Balsamic Vinegar
address
phone +39 059/781614 fax +39 059/7861913
e-mail
web
Traditional Balsamic Vinegar
drawn from a wooden cask
Villa Fabriani attic: Consortium
vinegar cellar
Labelled bottle from 1785
“La Botte”Hall
Via Roncati, 28 Spilamberto
41057 MO
info@museodelbalsamicotradizionale.org
www.museodelbalsamicotradizionale.org
The Museum of Traditional Balsamic Vinegar, the only museum
in the world dedicated to this product, which enjoys Protected
Designation of Origin, was inaugurated in 2002 in Spilamberto
thanks to the founder of the Traditional Balsamic Vinegar
Consortium, Simonini, under the patronage of the President of
the Republic and with the support of the Regional and Provincial
administrations and the Chamber of Commerce. The museum
aims to promote a product that is intimately tied to the culture
of Emilia. Its halls evoke the aroma and taste of this unique
product. Visitors will discover the complexities involved in
its preparation, perfected with experience and over time, and
will be able to learn about processes that had hitherto been
jealously guarded family secrets. A visit to the museum ends in
the Consortium’s vinegar cellar, where the Consortium’s master
vinegar makers host tastings for visitors.
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Parma

Museo
Martino Jasoni
Martino Jasoni Museum
address
phone +39 0525/61807 +39 0525/629220 fax +39 0525/60293
e-mail
web
Località Corchia Berceto
43042 PR
casacorchia@comune.berceto.pr.it
www.museojasoni.it
Martino Jasoni, “Carlon” Mill, 1929
Exterior of the Jasoni Museum,
Casa Corchia
Hall of American watercolour
paintings
Martino Jasoni, Self-portrait with
hat, 1930-40
The Martino Jasoni Museum owes its existence to the
Municipality of Berceto and the Jasoni family’s desire to promote
the works and life history of Martino Jasoni (1901-1957). The
artist’s works and life experience are used to spark a debate
ranging from artistic experiences, existential experiences,
and emigration issues.
Located in one of Parma province’s most charming burgs,
Casa Corchia, the home of the museum, displays about 60
works (oil and watercolour paintings) from the Jasoni collection.
The exhibition includes both works from Jasoni’s stay in the
USA – during his artistic training in New York under the guide of
John Sloan at the Art Students League – and from his return to
Corchia after 1924.
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Museo
Ettore Guatelli
Ettore Guatelli Museum
address
phone +39 0521/333601 fax +39 0521/332098
e-mail
web
Detail of the wall of hammers
View of the central hall
Small tractor, built entirely with
discarded material
79
Via Nazionale, 130
Loc. Ozzano Taro
info@museoguatelli.it
www.museoguatelli.it
Collecchio
43044 PR
About 60,000 everyday objects cover the walls of the Ettore
Guatelli Museum in Ozzano Taro. They are arranged in simple
geometric patterns, and create a highly evocative visual impact,
through an original approach to museography that eschews
realistic intentions.
The museum is the fruit of the collection and arrangement
efforts of its author Ettore Guatelli (1921-2000), who devoted
much of his life to this task. After his death, the Ettore Guatelli
Museum Foundation took over the museum’s management.
This private foundation, which also receives considerable public
funding, has made it possible to develop and carry out extensive
teaching, research, conservation, and promotion efforts, as well
as visitor services.

Museo del Pomodoro
The Tomato Museum
address
phone +39 333/2362839 fax +39 0521/821139
e-mail
web
Luciani basin used to make tomato
paste, about 1938
Detail of a Migliavacca measuring
cup for correctly measuring the
dose of tomato paste for cans, 1950
Tomato cans from the Pezziol
Collection, 1938
Museum entrance
Corte di Giarola
Via Giarola, 11
info@museidelcibo.it
www.museidelcibo.it
Collecchio
43044 PR
Hosted in a historic food processing plant, the museum traces
the history of the tomato from its arrival from the Americas in
the 16th century to the first timid attempts to use it in cooking,
its varieties and cultivation techniques, and its extraordinary
diffusion in the Parma area in the 19th century, leading to the
establishment of a major canning and processing industry.
Vintage photos and documents, rare videos, interactive screens
and models, packages and can openers, curios, and recipes from
great chefs help illustrate the history of this so-called “red gold”
until its final triumph as a mainstay of Italian cuisine.
The Tomato Museum – which also organizes workshops for
schools – is part of the Food Museums Network dedicated to the
typical products of the province of Parma.
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Museo del Salame
di Felino
The Felino Salami Museum
address
phone +39 0521/831809 +39 0521/821139 fax +39 0521/821139
e-mail
web
Big sausage machine, about 1925
The entrance to the castle that
houses the museum
Interior of the large hall dedicated
to the art of making pork products
81
Strada al Castello, 1 Felino
43035 PR
info@museidelcibo.it
www.museidelcibo.it
The museum is housed in the magnificent cellar of the majestic
Castle of Felino overlooking the verdant landscape of Val
Baganza. The museum’s exhibits trace the history of the various
pork products made with black Parma pigs, including their
home production and use in gastronomy, using vintage images,
ancient tools, and videos featuring touching testimonies and
depicting production techniques, from those used in ancient
times to current quality-focused technologies. Naturally, visitors
to the museum will be able to taste the “king of salamis”.
The Felino Salami Museum – which also organizes workshops
for schools – is part of the Food Museums Network dedicated to
the typical products of the province of Parma.

Museo del Prosciutto
e dei Salumi di Parma
The Parma Ham and Salumi Museum
address
phone +39 0521/864324 fax +39 0521/821139
e-mail
web
Parma Ham branding
demonstration
Display cases with ham-making
tools
Museum interior with the typical
structure of the hangars used to
age hams
The section on salting
Via Bocchialini, 7 Langhirano
43013 PR
info@museidelcibo.it
www.museidelcibo.it
The former Foro Boario, located at the foot of the Parma hills,
with their vineyards and the towers of Torrechiara castle, houses
the Parma Ham museum, which documents this prestigious
pork product using historic documents, instruments, machines,
and videos. The exhibits encompass the art of making products
from its origins to modern techniques, and discuss breeds
of pig, the role of salt, the ancient roots of today’s delicacies,
and the role of the Parma Ham Consortium in protecting
product quality. The visit ends with a taste of the incomparable
sweetness of Parma Ham.
The Parma Ham Museum – which also organizes workshops for
schools – is part of the Food Museums Network dedicated to the
typical products of the province of Parma.
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Museo Uomo-Ambiente.
Il territorio nel tempo
Museum of Man and the Environment.
The local territory over time
address
phone +39 333/4504976
fax
e-mail
web
83
Via Borgo, 2
Loc. Bazzano
Detail of the cellar: wooden spoon
From hemp to cloth: the hall
of rope
Wine culture: the hall of vines
museo@museouomo-ambiente.it
www.museouomo-ambiente.it
Neviano degli Arduini
43020 PR
The Museum of Man and the Environment is located inside a
13th century tower home. Its activities are run by the Il Camino
Cultural Group, whose idea of a museum project includes not
only the display of objects representing rural culture, but also
the local territory, landscape, and population. The current
exhibits focus on the processing of hemp and on wine
culture. They engage the visitor’s senses as well as promoting
knowledge.
The workshops for kindergarten and elementary school children
allow them to be fully immersed in the museum visit, which
involves the five senses all at once. Additionally,
the museum organizes numerous local cultural events.

Castello della Musica:
Museo del disco
Museo di liuteria
Castello della Musica:
Museum of Vinyl Records
Museum of Lutherie
address
phone +39 0521/823978 +39 0521/622134 fax +39 0521/622100
e-mail
web
Detail of the record collection
Castello della Musica - Rocca San
Vitale
View of the halls
of the Museum of Lutherie
Piazza Garibaldi, 1 Noceto
43015 PR
castellodellamusica@comune.noceto.pr.it
www.comune.noceto.pr.it
Two museums, the Museum of Vinyl Records and the Museum
of Lutherie, are housed in an enchanting Medieval manor,
which was re-named Castello della Musica (the Castle of Music)
in 2005. The Museum of Vinyl Records – located on the piano
nobile – displays 1,300 vintage 78-rpm records from the Bruno
Slawitz, which have recently been digitized, along with over
2,000 33-rpm LPs. It has facilities for videoconferences and
music listening stations.
The Museum of Lutherie gathers together the precious artisanal
instruments made by the master luthier Renato Scrollavezza and
introduces the School of Lutherie, established in Parma’s Arrigo
Boito Conservatory in 1975, and currently one of the leading
schools in this sector. It is located in the tower, from which a
splendid view of the town can be enjoyed.
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Castello dei Burattini
Museo Giordano Ferrari
Castle of Puppets
Giordano Ferrari Museum
address
phone +39 0521/031631 fax +39 0521/218876
e-mail
web
Knight with sword, 19th century
marionette
Marionette display case
Puppet display case
85
Via Melloni, 3A Parma
43121 PR
castellodeiburattini@comune.parma.it
www.castellodeiburattini.it
The Castle of Puppets/ Giordano Ferrari Museum was
established in 2002 by the Municipality of Parma, in order
to properly care for and display the collection of the Parmaborn
puppet-maker Giordano Ferrari. This initial collection
was increased by material donated from other collectors or
individuals working in the puppet sector, making the museum a
national reference point in its field.
The over 500 items on display are but a small fraction of the
museum’s holdings, which include, along with glove and string
puppets , a paper archive of primary importance available to
scholars upon request, as well as a book collection listed in the
OPAC of Parma libraries. The museum offers guided visits and
educational workshops in collaboration with the “I burattini dei
Ferrari” company.

Fondazione Museo
Glauco Lombardi
Glauco Lombardi Museum Foundation
address
phone +39 0521/233727 fax +39 0521/506329
e-mail
web
Anonymous, Bust of Napoleon
Bonaparte, first half of the 19th
century
Parisian manufacture (?), Gala
dress and mantle formerly belonging
to Duchess Marie Louise of
Habsburg, about 1830-4
Robert J. Lefèvre, Marie Louise,
Empress of the French, 1812
Hall of receptions
Strada Garibaldi, 15 Parma
43121 PR
glaucolombardi@libero.it
www.museolombardi.it
The museum was established thanks to the Colorno-born
collector Glauco Lombardi (1881-1970). It traces the history
of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza from the mid-17th century
to the mid-19th century, and focuses the attention of visitors
on the historic figure of the Duchess Marie Louise of Habsburg
(1791-1847).
Official art works from her sumptuous Imperial period as the
wife of Napoleon Bonaparte are flanked with personal objects,
valuable textiles, and various items from her long reign as
Duchess, allowing the exhibits to offer a fun and intriguing
peek into official and private life at a 19th century court. Ample
space is given to the Lyon-born architect Petitot, the master
typographer Bodoni, and the engraver Toschi; the extensive
documentation in the museum’s archives is also worthy of note.
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Museo Casa Natale
Arturo Toscanini
Museum of the Birthplace
of Arturo Toscanini
address
phone +39 0521/285499 fax +39 0521/285499
e-mail
web
Robert Hupka, Toscanini directing
“His life” Hall
“Images of a legend” Hall
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Borgo Tanzi, 13 Parma
43125 PR
info.toscanini@museotoscanini.it
www.museotoscanini.it
Arturo Toscanini was born on March 25,1867 in this house
in Oltretorrente, a working-class, music-loving, proud, and
politically restless neighbourhood whose character bore an
everlasting influence upon him.
The museum, which re-opened on January16, 2007, traces the
life and work of the great Maestro in a totally renewed setting,
which nevertheless maintains unchanged the atmosphere of his
native home. The museum is dedicated both to memory and
reflection, and includes historical documents, precious family
heirlooms, and modern multi-media.

Casa del Suono
House of Sound
address
phone +39 0521/031103 fax +39 0521/031106
e-mail
web
Detail of a McIntosh amp
Interior of the House of Sound
with the “sound lamp”
One of the museum’s niches
The white room
Piazzale Salvo D’Acquisto Parma
43121 PR
info.cds@casadelsuono.it
www.casadelsuono.it
The House of Sound focuses on the technological aspects of
sound. It is an avant-garde artistic and technological project
dedicated to everyone who listens to music and other sounds
broadcast by technological instruments.
The House of Sound features a valuable collection of sound
players (from phonographs to gramophones, from radios to tape
recorders, from CDs to the iPod) and looks to the future with its
innovative sound players and services dedicated to artistic and
scientific research, teaching, and education.
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Museo dell’Opera
Museum of the Opera
address
phone +39 0521/031170 fax +39 0521/031106
e-mail
web
Some of the baroque instruments
on display at the Museum of the
Opera
Main courtyard of Palazzo Cusani,
home of the House of Music
Museum hall
89
Piazzale San Francesco, 1 Parma
43121 PR
museo@lacasadellamusica.it
www.operamuseo.parma.it
The history of the opera in Parma began in 1628, with the
inauguration of Teatro Farnese: although back then opera
performances were special events reserved to a small elite,
the stage was being set for them to become public events,
and the most popular type of artistic performance for the next
300 years. Thus, public theatres were built in Parma as well,
the Teatro Ducale in 1687 and the Nuovo Teatro Ducale, currently
known as Teatro Regio, in 1829.
The Museum of Opera traces these four centuries of history
through a rich, fascinating store of images and documents,
as well as multi-media tools.

Pinacoteca
Giuseppe Stuard
Giuseppe Stuard Art Gallery
address
phone +39 0521/508184 fax +39 0521/218875
e-mail
web
Enrico Bandini, Portrait
of the sculptor Tommaso Bandini,
mid-19th century
Maestro della Misericordia,
Madonna in the throne with Child,
1360-70
Bernardo Bellotto, Riverside town,
about 1747
Borgo del Parmigianino, 2 Parma
43121 PR
pinacoteca.stuard@comune.parma.it
www.servizi.comune.parma.it/stuard/
Parma’s “Giuseppe Stuard” Art Gallery is just a few steps from
the Chamber of Saint Paul, Correggio’s youthful masterpiece.
It includes an archaeological section (5th to 15th centuries)
that regards the original Monastery of Saint Paul, but that also
reflects Stuard’s particular taste in collecting. Artists whose
works are on display include the 14th and 15th century Tuscans
Niccolò di Tommaso, the Maestro della Misericordia, and
Pietro di Giovanni di Ambrogio along with other noteworthy
artists such as Parmigianino, Francisco de Zurbaran, Orazio
Sammachini, Bartolomeo Schedoni, Giovanni Lanfranco, Felice
Boselli, Sebastiano Ricci, Giuseppe Baldrighi, Pietro Melchiorre
Ferrari, Alberto Pasini, Daniele De Strobel, and Amedeo Bocchi.
The art gallery is also the doorway to some of Parma’s other
important artistic monuments.
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Museo Naturalistico
del Parco dello Stirone
Natural History Museum
of the Stirone River Park
address
phone +39 0524/581139 +39 339/4188677 fax +39 0524/581139
e-mail
web
An Italian Barbel Barbus plebejus
Display of fossils from the park
Sparrowhawk with prey
Long-eared Owl and Robin
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Scipione Ponte, 1 Salsomaggiore Terme
43039 PR
museo@parcostirone.it
www.parks.it/parco.stirone; www.parchi.parma.it
The museum is located on the ground floor of the building that
houses the Park Visitor Centre. The displays are characterized
by glass cases illustrating the natural history of this protected
area: some highlight the great diversity of fossils to be found
along the Strione River, evidence of past geological areas, while
others focus on the park’s wildlife, particularly with regards
to identifying animal tracks and to acknowledging the key
role played by predators in the ecosystems. Three fascinating
dioramas provide detailed replicas of certain natural habitats,
such as the river itself during the four seasons, and life in the
thick of a reedbed. Three aquaria host native fish from the
Strione River.

Museo del Parmigiano
Reggiano
The Parmigiano Reggiano Museum
address
phone +39 0524/596129 fax +39 0521/821139
e-mail
web
Curd breaking rod
Cheese knives display
The large weighing scale and
the cheese seasoning “scalere”
scaffolding
Milk jug
Corte Castellazzi
Via Volta, 5
info@museidelcibo.it
www.museidelcibo.it
Soragna
43019 PR
In a land rich in castles and reminiscences of Giuseppe Verdi,
the thousand-year history and culture and the unparalleled taste
of the “king of cheeses” are showcased through vintage objects
and images in the historic Meli Lupi Castle, which for centuries
has been used to produce Parmigiano Reggiano. The exhibits
illustrate the way milk is turned into cheese, the way Parmigiano
Reggiano is aged and marketed, the key role played by the
Consortium in protecting product quality, and end with a tasting
of this peerless product.
The Parmigiano Reggiano Museum – which also organizes
workshops for schools – is part of the Food Museums Network
dedicated to the typical products of the province of Parma.
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Museo
Renato Brozzi
Renato Brozzi Museum
address
phone +39 0521/842436 fax +39 0521/344550
e-mail
web
The Maestro Renato Brozzi at work
Museum interior
Renato Brozzi, Luthier’s cup,
1922-23
Renato Brozzi, Study of ducklings
in the gardens of the Vittoriale degli
Italiani, 1931
93
Piazza Fanfulla, 4 Traversetolo
43029 PR
comune@comune.traversetolo.pr.it
www.comune.traversetolo.pr.it
The Museum dedicated to Renato Brozzi (1885-1963) displays
the works that the artist donated to his native town to document
his 60 years of activity. His artistic output was immense, both
in absolute numbers and in terms of techniques and materials
(pencil, charcoal, sanguine, pastel, chalk, watercolours,
gouache, and oil for illustrations; copper, bronze, silver, and
gold for sculptures and jewels). Some of his most famous works
include landscapes of the Po Plain and the Pontine Marshes,
his gallery of female portraits and nudes, and his collection of
preparatory studies for sculptures and applied art for public or
private patrons. His lengthy, close relationship with Gabriele
D’Annunzio, an exceptional patron, is particularly noteworthy.
Brozzi became one of his most careful and appreciated
portraitists, as testified by some of the most famous likenesses
of the poet known as “Il vate d’Italia” .

Piacenza

Museo della
Città di Bobbio
Museum of the City of Bobbio
address
phone +39 340/5578162 +39 340/5492188 fax +39 0523/960242
e-mail
web
Apotropaic face
Piazza Santa Fara Bobbio
29022 PC
info@cooltour.it
www.cooltour.it
Fresco in the former refectory of
the San Colombano monastery
15th century
The cloister
The Museum of the City aims to serve as an introduction to
the city of Bobbio, and to communicate ideas, concepts, and
impressions that can help re-create the town’s historic and
cultural context. Housed in the former refectory, kitchen, and
cellar of the San Colombano monastery, the Museum of the City is
an educational museum – featuring a few original items – with a
varied array of exhibits enhanced by audio-visual and multi-media
stations.
The museum is divided in three sections: the first traces the
life of Colombano, from his early days in Ireland to his arrival in
Bobbio, along with salient events in the city’s history; the second
section describes the history and activities of Bobbio’s prestigious
scriptorium, one of Europe’s most important in the Early Middle
Ages; finally, the third section is dedicated to monasticism.
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Museo Geologico
G. Cortesi
G. Cortesi Geological Museum
address
phone +39 0523/805303 +39 0523/803215 fax +39 0523/803215
e-mail
web
Cardium indicum
Latest findings from the
Quaternary floodplain
of the Arda torrent
Hall of cetaceans
Museum exterior
95
Via Sforza Caolzio, 57 Castell’Arquato
29014 PC
info@museogeologico.it
www.museogeologico.it
Although the Museum was established in 1961, it already existed
as a civic collection since the early 1900s. It is housed in the
16th century Ospitale Santo Spirito. At the provincial level, it
plays an important role in conserving, studying, and promoting
the local paleontological heritage, with particular regards to the
malacology of the Piacenzian stratotype, the fossil remains of
cetaceans from the Pliocene, and the large vertebrates of the
Quaternary in the Po Plain. Local collections are augmented
with items and collections from other geographic areas, along
with a significant amount of petrographic material collected
during research expeditions outside of Europe. The museum also
houses Environmental Education Centre that has an active local
education program (Green Classrooms).

Museo Luigi Illica
Luigi Illica Museum
address
phone +39 0523/804008 +39 0523/803215 fax +39 0523/803215
e-mail
web
La Tosca libretto, 1900
Theatre scripts with handwritten
notes
Original stage costumes worn
during a performance of Turandot
Via Sforza Caolzio, 59 Castell’Arquato
29014 PC
biblioteca@comune.castellarquato.pc.it
www.comune.castellarquato.pc.it
The Museum, located next to the former home of the multitalented
playwright and librettist Luigi Illica (1857-1919), features
four sections promoting opera music. The first traces Illica’s
fascinating life; the second displays theatre scripts – some
with handwritten notes, opera librettos, and sheet music (Illica
worked with Mascagni, Franchetti, and Puccini among others).
The third section displays photos of Illica and some of the main
performers in his operas, his piano and his typewriter, postcards,
letters, and other writings that help frame Illica in the context
of his time. Several original stage costumes are particularly
noteworthy. The last section features books, sheet music,
audio-visual material, records, and CDs that can be examined
or listened to in the adjacent multi-media room.
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Galleria d’Arte Moderna
Ricci Oddi
Ricci Oddi Modern Art Gallery
address
phone +39 0523/320742 fax +39 0523/320742
e-mail
web
97
Via San Siro, 13 Piacenza
29121 PC
info@riccioddi.it
www.riccioddi.it
Medardo Rosso, Ecce puer, 1906
Federico Zandomeneghi,
Place d’Anvers, 1880
Exterior of the Ricci Oddi Gallery
The Ricci Oddi Modern Art Gallery documents the evolution
of figurative art in Italy between the Romantic Era and the early
20th century, without overlooking some significant examples
from abroad. Ricci Oddi amassed an exemplary collection in
terms of its overall homogeneity and the quality of the individual
works. He was interested in regional schools – whose particular
characteristics he understood – and movements (Novecento
Italiano, Lombardy’s Scapigliatura, and Symbolism) and he
wanted the museum’s rooms to reflect this order. The museum
displays works by artists such as Fattori, Boldini, Hayez, De
Nittis, Carrà, Boccioni, Zandomeneghi and Medardo Rosso.
Particularly noteworthy is the building by the architect Giulio
Ulisse Arata, who designed it in order to showcase the collection,
with bright geometric spaces and an innovative natural lighting
from above.

Musei Civici
di Palazzo Farnese
Palazzo Farnese Civic Museums
address
phone +39 0523/492661 +39 0523/492658 fax +39 0523/492659
e-mail
web
Sandro Botticelli, Madonna
adoring the Child, about 1481-82
Palazzo Farnese, 1559,
view from the south-east
Simone De’ Crocifissi, Adoration
of the Magi, second half
of the 14th century
Calèche-barouche, 1828-30
Piazza Cittadella, 29 Piacenza
29121 PC
musei.farnese@comune.piacenza.it
www.musei.piacenza.it
Palazzo Farnese is a monumental compound that includes
Palazzo Ducale dei Farnese, designed by Jacopo Barozzi Barozzi,
also known as Il Vignola, and built in 1559, and the 14th century
Cittadella built for the Visconti dynasty. Vignola’s grand palace
is linked to the older Cittadella by a massive entrance keep;
today, it has for the most part been restored in order to house
the art collections of the Civic Museum. The Museums include
a historical section on Palazzo Farnese, a hall of arms, a section
on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, a section on the Fasti
Farnesiani, a section on glassworks and ceramics, an art gallery
(with Botticelli’s Tondo), the Museum of Risorgimento, the
Museum of Carriages – one of Italy’s most renowned thanks to
the size and quality of its collections – and the Archaeological
Museum (Prehistory section and the Etruscan Liver of Piacenza).
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Museo Civico
di Storia Naturale
Civic Museum of Natural History
address
phone +39 0523/334980 fax +39 0523/334980
e-mail
web
Red Squirrel in the Hillside Hall’s
tactile exhibit
Red Deer buck in the Mountain
Hall
Hedgehog in the Hillside Hall
Tawny Owl in the Mountain Hall
99
Via Scalabrini, 107 Piacenza
29121 PC
museoscienze@comune.piacenza.it
www.musei.piacenza.it/msn
Piacenza’s Civic Museum of Natural History is housed in the
Fabbrica del Ghiaccio (Ice Factory) at the former Piacenza
slaughterhouse, whose machinery has been left standing as an
example of industrial archaeology.
The recently inaugurated Museum’s core collection includes
rocks, plants, and local ornithological material, most of which
comes from Piacenza’s Regio Istituto Tecnico.
The displays are entirely devoted to the geological, floristic,
and faunal characteristics of the Piacenza area, with significant
examples of the local wildlife on display. Visits are enhanced by
multi-media tools and by the fact that visitors can handle many
of the items on display.

Museo di Ornitologia
Amatoriale
Museum of Amateur Bird Breeding
address
phone +39 0523/591522 +39 0523/593403 fax +39 0523/571613
e-mail
web
Male Ruff
Black Lark
Quail
Egyptian Plover
Via Caorsana, 94
Loc. Le Mose
museo@foi.it
www.museofoi.it
Piacenza
29122 PC
Inaugurated on October 16, 2010, the Museum is the
outgrowth of successful collaboration between the municipal
administration and executives from the Federazione Ornicoltori
Italiani - Onlus (FOI - Italian Bird Breeders Federation), whose
perseverance helped complete a project of great educational and
cultural value.
The museum is unique in its field, since it displays birds born to
amateur breeders belonging to FOI and the World Ornithological
Congress. Exquisitely beautiful cage birds, such as canaries and
exotic parakeets, are on display.
The museum has five different halls displaying over 1,700 birds,
while a large outdoor aviary features live cage birds and is also
used for rehabilitating injured wild birds.
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Museo Archeologico
della Valtidone
Archaeological Valtidone Museum
address
phone +39 0523/994111 +39 335/5941459 fax +39 0523/994123
e-mail
web
Bronze lamp-bearing tripod,
Imperial Roman Era
Museum exterior
Valeria Nardis funerary stele,
second half of the 1st century AD
Glass case with items from an
Imperial Era villa rustica near
Arcello di Pianello
101
Piazza Mensi, 54 Pianello Val Tidone
29010 PC
associazionepandora@virgilio.it
www.archeomuseovaltidone.it
The Archaeological Val Tidone Museum was inaugurated in
1999 and re-arranged in May 2009. It is located in the cellar of
the Pianello municipal fortress and traces the history of human
settlement in Val Tidone from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages.
It is the product of a successful synergy between all the relevant
institutions and volunteer organizations, since the items on
display, which are state-owned, are housed in three different
rooms that have been restored and made available by the
municipal administration. The exhibits are enhanced by an
information apparatus put together thanks to contributions
from the Emilia-Romagna regional government, the IBC, and the
Province of Piacenza. Access is free thanks to the dedication of
volunteers from the local Pandora Archaeological Association.

Museo Civico
e Parco Archeologico
Civic Museum and Archaeological Park
address
phone +39 333/2222739
fax
e-mail
web
Interior of the replica hut
Experimental Area: large replica of
a home with clay and wooden walls
and a reed roof
Archaeological Area: roofs of the
houses found at the Sant’Andrea
site, an example of prehistoric
dwellings
Museo: Piazzetta Trieste, 16
Parco: Strada al Mulino
Loc. Sant’Andrea
info@archeotravo.it
www.archeotravo.it
Travo
29020 PC
The Archaeological Park of the Neolithic Village of Sant’Andrea
was established in Val Trebbia in 2006, thanks to the joint efforts
of the Superintendence, Region, Municipality, Fondazione
di Piacenza e Vigevano and Associazione La Minerva.
The Park intends to promote the site of Sant’Andrea, where
ongoing research that began in the 1980s brought to light a
village extending over at least one hectare, a unique finding
in the context of northern Italian prehistory. The village features
an outdoor replica of a prehistoric village and real-life replicas
of three wood and straw homes.
The Civic Museum, housed in the Anguissola Castle – which
also houses, since 1997, the exhibition on “Val Trebbia from
the Palaeolithic to the Roman era” – displays stone, ceramic,
and bone artefacts from digs and research carried out by the
Associazione La Minerva’s volunteers.
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Ravenna

Casa Museo
Vincenzo Monti
Vincenzo Monti Museum-Home
address
phone +39 0544/869808 fax +39 0544/869808
e-mail
web
The Alfonsine nature reserve
Cradle room
Casa Monti exterior
Via Passetto, 1 Alfonsine
48011 RA
casamonti@comune.alfonsine.ra.it
www.atlantide.net/casamonti; www.racine.ra.it/casamonti
The birthplace of the neo-classical poet Vincenzo Monti in
Alfonsine was completely restored and re-opened to the public
in May 1998.
Today, this handsome 18th century home plays two different,
complementary functions: the upper floor is dedicated to
valorising the works of the poet Vincenzo Monti; it displays
objects that once belonged to the poet and his family, signed
letters, documents, and numerous valuable first editions of his
works. The ground floor hosts the Environmental Education
Centre and information point of the Po River Delta Natural
Park. Additionally, the home is the main venue for the “Pensiero,
narrazione, e voce” summer narration festival.
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Museo della Battaglia
del Senio
Museum of the Battle of the Senio
address
phone +39 0544/84302 fax +39 0544/84302
e-mail
web
Images of partisans
Display of clandestine printing
press in the partisans’ room
Museum exterior
104
Piazza Resistenza, 2 Alfonsine
48011 RA
museodelsenio@racine.ra.it
Established in 1981, the Museum of the Battle of the Senio
not only documents the assault on the Gothic Line, but also
focuses more broadly on the Romagna area during World War
II, intertwining military events with the history of the local
populations that were profoundly affected by them. It tells a tale
of armies, mechanized transport, and the local physical and
human environment, which reconstructs, in all its complexity,
the effects of modern total warfare on an area such as the
Romagna plain, crisscrossed by numerous waterways and
still today rich in marshland. The museum displays photos of
the armies, videos and recordings from the war, propaganda
material, and historic maps, all of which are fundamental in
order to understand the scope of wartime events and preserve
them from trite rhetoric.

Museo
del Castello
Castle Museum
address
phone +39 0545/905540 +39 0545/905505 fax +39 0545/76136
e-mail
web
Antique majolica mug
The painting collection in the
castle’s main hall
The cellar, with the archaeological
area, along its main axis
Piazza IV Novembre Bagnara di Romagna
48010 RA
museodelcastello@comune.bagnaradiromagna.ra.it
www.comune.bagnaradiromagna.ra.it
The Castle Museum re-evokes some of the key moments in the
history of the town and surrounding territory, starting with the
first permanent settlements of over 7,000 years ago, and ending
in the Early Middle Ages, when the establishment of a village
in Prati di S. Andrea marked the birth of the town of Bagnara.
During the Early Middle Ages, villages gave way to fortresses,
of which the keep is an emblematic reminder. Inside the keep,
the museum exhibits trace the history of the castle and of the
entire defensive system centred on the majestic 14th century
fortress, its walls, gate, and moats, and the events and changes
that took place there over the course of the centuries, thus
providing the means to understand the development of castles
in lower Romagna.
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MUSA
Museo del Sale
MUSA
Museum of Salt
address
phone +39 0544/977592 fax +39 0544/977592
e-mail
web
Cervia salt
MUSA, hall 2
Camillone saltpans
MUSA, hall 1
106
Via Nazario Sauro 24 Cervia
48015 RA
musa@comunecervia.it
www.turismo.comunecervia.it
Located in the “Torre” salt storehouse, MUSA preserves and
promotes an important aspect of local history. Established
thanks to the passion and dedication of the Civiltà Salinara
cultural group, which wanted to keep alive the memory of the
central importance of salt in the origins of Cervia, the museum’s
evocative layouts trace the history of salt, saltpan workers, and
the city itself.
The Camillone saltpans, MUSA’s outdoor section, remain Italy’s
only artisanal saltpans with multiple harvests. Here, saltpan
workers still produce Cervia’s precious “white gold” using the
same wooden instruments on display in the museum.
A visit to the museum is an exciting experience, in part because
visitors are greeted by the saltpan workers themselves, who are
quite happy to share their stories of life in the saltpans.

Museo Internazionale
delle Ceramiche
International Museum of Ceramics
address
phone +39 0546/697311 fax +39 0546/27141
e-mail
web
Viale Baccarini, 19 Faenza
48018 RA
info@micfaenza.org
www.micfaenza.org
Faenza, Bergantini workshop, 1531
Lucio Fontana, Spatial concept, 1957
Hall of the Faenza Renaissance
Interior courtyard
The International Museum of Ceramics, founded in 1908, has the
largest collection of ceramics in the world. It documents ceramic
pottery worldwide over a span of five millennia, with over 30,000
complete pieces and thousands of shards. It features over 8,000
square meters of display space, well-equipped depositories
accessible to scholars, a specialized library with over 60,000
volumes, and a photo archive of Italian majolica pottery. It hosts
a restoration laboratory and an educational workshop (set up by
the designer Bruno Munari) the latter targets schools of all levels
and teachers. The museum has a well-stocked bookshop, and
since 1913 it publishes Faenza, an international journal devoted
to majolica and glazen earthenware.
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Casa Museo
Francesco Baracca
Francesco Baracca Museum-Home
address
phone +39 0545/24821 +39 0545/38561 fax +39 0545/38534
e-mail
web
S. Luchini, Portrait of Francesco
Baracca, 1919
SPAD VII 1917 Aircraft from
Baracca’s squadron
Schwarzlose anti-aircraft gun in
Veneto, 1918
Pilots from the 91st Squadron
including Fulco Ruffo di Calabria
and Baracca himself
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Via Baracca, 65 Lugo
48022 RA
museobaracca@comune.lugo.ra.it
www.museobaracca.it
The Baracca Museum displays one of the world’s few examples
of the SPAD VII aircraft, built in France in the Blériot plant in
1917, one of the airplanes in the squadron led by the Italian
aviation ace. One side of the fuselage bears a Griffin, the
emblem of the legendary 91st Squadron, while the other bears
the Cavallino Rampante (Prancing Horse), which, after Baracca’s
death, was donated by his family to Enzo Ferrari as the logo for
his automobiles.
In the atrium, a Ferrari F399, driven by Schumacher in 1999,
symbolically unites two legends of the 20th century, and reminds
visitors of the Lugo-based origins of the Ferrari brand. The
museum also displays over 500 mementos, photographs, letters,
and videos.

Museo
Carlo Venturini
Carlo Venturini Museum
address
phone +39 0545/985831 fax +39 0545/985837
e-mail
web
Punic votive steel, 3rd century BC
Exterior of the cultural centre,
home of the museum
Hall of minerals
Viale Zaganelli, 2 Massa Lombarda
48024 RA
cultura@comune.massalombarda.ra.it
www.comune.massalombarda.ra.it
Inaugurated in 1990, since 2007 the Venturini Museum has been
housed in the eponymous Cultural Centre, which also houses
the municipal library. The physician and diplomat Carlo Venturini
looms large in the city’s history, not just because the library
was founded thanks to his book collection, but also because
his collection, donated at the end of the 19th century, is the
most interesting face of the local artistic and cultural heritage,
and provides an excellent illustration of the events, criteria,
and ideology that motivated 19th centuries antique collectors.
The collection is quite varied and heterogeneous: it combines
coherent collections of archaeological, artistic, natural history,
and numismatic material with the strange objects and curios
typical of 19th century amateur collections.
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Museo d’Arte
della Città di Ravenna
Art Museum of the City of Ravenna
address
phone +39 0544/482477 +39 0544/482356 fax +39 0544/482450
e-mail
web
Tullio Lombardo, Giudarello
Giudarelli’s burial monument,
detail, post 1525
Domenico Baccarini,
Head of a woman, 1903
The quadriportico of the 16th
century monastery
Giosetta Fioroni, Giosetta’s house,
post 2002
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Via di Roma, 13 Ravenna
48121 RA
ufficio.stampa@museocitta.ra.it; info@museocitta.ra.it
www.museocitta.ra.it
The Art Museum of the City of Ravenna, which has had
Institution status since 2002, is housed in the monumental
compound known as Loggetta Lombardesca.
The first nucleus of the civic art gallery dates back to 1829,
with the acquisition of works belonging to suppressed religious
corporations, which made up the Gallery of the Academy,
which would eventually be re-arranged by Corrado Ricci and
feature over 300 works from the 14th to the 20th centuries.
The re-structuring of many rooms on the building’s ground
floor and first floor made it possible to recover extensive
exhibition space for the art gallery’s permanent collections and
for staging international exhibitions. In 2004, the International
Documentation Centre on Mosaics was established to promote
the study and valorisation of mosaics.

NatuRa
Museo Ravennate di Scienze
Naturali Alfredo Brandolini
NatuRa
Alfredo Brandolini
Natural Science Museum in Ravenna
address
phone +39 0544/528710 +39 0544/529260 fax +39 0544/528710
e-mail
web
Flamingos in the Valli di
Comacchio
Detail of the collection
Museum exterior
Detail of an exhibit
Via Rivaletto, 25
Loc. Sant’Alberto
infonatura@comune.ra.it
www.natura.ra.it
Ravenna
48123 RA
NatuRa, the “Alfredo Brandolini” Natural Science Museum in
Ravenna and the Po Delta Park Visitor Centre at the “Pineta
San Vitale e Pialasse di Ravenna” station is housed in the
Palazzone di Sant’Alberto, an ancient tavern from the Este
era that embodies the area’s historic, cultural, and natural
characteristics.
Located next to the southern Valli di Comacchio, the Museum
hosts a rich ornithological collection documenting the local
avifauna from the early 20th century until the present day, along
with valuable natural history and ethnographic material. A visit
to the museum can be paired with guided tours of the local area
on foot, by bicycle, or by electric bus. The museum has a wellequipped
learning room, a hall for temporary exhibitions, and a
children’s workshop featuring creative games, which is always
open during museum hours.
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Piccolo Museo di Bambole
e altri Balocchi
The Little Museum
of Dolls and Other Toys
address
phone +39 331/2663331 fax +39 0544/422240
e-mail
web
Bread kneading trough and roll,
1935
Museum interior
Dolls and salon, 1945
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Via Fantuzzi, 4 Ravenna
48121 RA
info@museodellebambole.it
www.museodellebambole.it
The Little Museum of Dolls and Other Toys is located in the back
of a historic building in the heart of Ravenna.
It is a new wonderland, where visitors can travel back to
childhood games when all good things were possible.
It is filled with celluloid, papier-mâché and ceramic dolls busily
sewing, admiring themselves in a mirror, or taking tea, along
with dollhouses, stuffed animals, and rocking horses. Lenci dolls
- as sophisticated and elegant as the city that gave them birth,
Turin - are also on display.
A library of children’s classics, which is open to visitors, includes
many books from the same era as the dolls (1860-1950). This
little relic of a long-lost childhood is completed by notebooks,
reading books, school books, and red and blue pencils, pens,
and nibs.

Museo del Paesaggio
dell’Appennino Faentino
Museum of the Faenza Apennines Landscape
address
phone +39 0546/71025 fax +39 0546/71025
e-mail
web
Keep of the Riolo fortress,
1388-92, detail of the herringbone
brickwork
Riolo fortress, southern side
Documentation Centre for the
Vena del Gesso Romagnola
Regional Park – Arch of memory –
recently inaugurated at the Rocca
di Riolo Terme
Piazza Mazzanti Riolo Terme
48025 RA
roccadiriolo@atlantide.net
www.atlantide.net/roccadiriolo
The Riolo Terme fortress, built in the 14th century to defend
the Senio valley, is a magnificent example of military fortification
reflecting the offensive techniques of the Late Middle Ages. It
houses the Museum of the Faenza Apennine Landscape’s unique
and evocative displays, with visual exhibits, soundscapes, and
relief maps depicting the unique aspects of local history.
The museum is a true study centre promoting discoveries
and activities related to a constantly changing landscape.
The new multi-media exhibit “The Mysteries of Caterina”,
dedicated to the life, loves, and times of Caterina Sforza, has
recently been inaugurated in the Sala del Pozzo. The interactive
displays help visitors interact with the Lioness of Romagna
herself.
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Reggio Emilia

Museo della Maschera
del Carnevale
Centro di documentazione
e ricerca
Museum of Carnival Masks
Documentation and research centre
address
phone +39 0522/485736 fax +39 0522/683603
e-mail
web
Guatteri workshop (attr.), Young
woman, coloured satin mask,
1810-1933
Guatteri workshop (attr.), Iron
press, with mould and die, used
for the hot pressing of masks,
1810-1933
Guatteri workshop (attr.), Human
faces, mould and die, 1810-1933
Piazza IV Novembre, 1 Castelnovo di Sotto
42024 RE
cultura@comune.castelnovo-di-sotto.re.it
www.comune.castelnovo-di-sotto.re.it
The Museum was inaugurated in 2007 inside the historic
municipal fortress.
At its core is an exceptional collection of masks, ancient metal
moulds, and original chalk models purchased by the municipal
administration in 1997, and increased by a donation of masks by
Eugenio Gabrielli.
This unique patrimony includes 222 items and owes its existence
to the artisanal mask factory founded by Prospero Guatteri
in Castelnovo. The works are displayed in educational exhibits
which use Carnival traditions to trace the history of Carnival
masks and the work required to create them.
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Museo Civico
Il Correggio
Il Correggio Civic Museum
address
phone +39 0522/691806 fax +39 0522/633017
e-mail
web
Cornelius Mattens, Waterfowl and
heron hunt, about 1585
18th century hall
Andrea Mantegna, Christ the
Redeemer
Hall of Tapestries
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Corso Cavour, 7 Correggio
42015 RE
museo@comune.correggio.re.it
www.museoilcorreggio.org
The “Il Correggio” Museum is housed in the 16th century
Palazzo dei Principi and provides a broad overview of historic,
artistic, and cultural traditions in the town of Correggio.
The permanent exhibitions take up eight rooms: the Hall of
Archaeology (pre-Roman, Roman, and medieval material), the
Renaissance Hall (works by Mantegna, Benzoni, Antonio Allegri
also known as Il Correggio, wooden sculptures), the Gallery of
the 16th Century, the Hall of Tapestries (late 17th century Flemish
tapestries by Mattens, 18th century English terrestrial and
celestial globes), the Hall of the 17th Century (Preti, Cignani, Il
Galanino, coins from the Correggio mint), the Hall of the 18th
Century (Donnini, Callani), the Hall and Gallery of the 19th
Century (works by Asioli, Malatesta, Vela, Ferrari, Villa, Iesi and
engravings drawn from the works of Correggio).

Museo Cervi
Cervi Museum
address
phone +39 0522/678356 fax +39 0522/477491
e-mail
web
Alcide Cervi, 1960s
Cervi Family in front of Campi
Rossi house, end of the 1930s
View of the Cervi Museum
Via Fratelli Cervi, 9 Gattatico
42043 RE
museo@fratellicervi.it
www.fratellicervi.it
The Museum is located in the rural home the Cervi family
moved to in 1934.The Cervi Museum has become a landmark
for all who share the values of democracy and anti-fascism,
thanks to the example provided by this family of tenant farmers,
who participated in the Resistance and whose seven sons were
executed by a fascist firing squad in 1943.
The process that transformed the house into a museum began
in the 1950s, when thousands of visitors began to travel here to
pay their respects, and ended in 2001 with the inauguration of
the “Museum of the history of peasant movements and of antifascism
and the Resistance in the countryside”. The house was
restructured and refurbished, and it now illustrates the history
of the Cervi family along with some more general aspects of 20th
century history.
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Museo
Gonzaga
Gonzaga Museum
address
phone +39 0522/655426 fax +39 0522/652057
e-mail
web
Vases from the Jesuit spicery, 16th
century
Wall frieze, second half of the 16th
century
Hall with frescoes by Lelio Orsi
16th century
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Piazzale Marconi, 1 Novellara
42017 RE
e.ghidini@comune.novellara.re.it
www.comune.novellara.re.it
Novellara’s Gonzaga Museum preserves artistic and historic
memories of the Gonzaga family, which, from 1371 to 1728,
transformed Novellara into an ideal small town rich in
monuments and works of art. The museum’s exhibits are located
in the richly decorated rooms of the 16th century piano nobile
on the first floor of Novellara’s fortress. Particularly noteworthy
items include a cycle of frescoes by Lelio Orsi from the Casino
di Sopra, a valuable painting by the same artist depicting the
Annunciation, a Flemish tapestry commissioned by Alfonso I
Gonzaga in 1554 and the collection – amongst the largest in
Europe – of vases from the Jesuit spicery in Novellara, including
pieces in Venetian and Lodi majolica from the 16th and 17th
centuries.

Musei Civici:
Galleria Parmeggiani
Civic Museums: Parmeggiani Gallery
address
phone +39 0522/451054 fax +39 0522/456476
e-mail
web
Corso Cairoli, 1 Reggio Emilia
42121 RE
musei@municipio.re.it
www.musei.re.it
Cesare Detti, Venus with amorini
Detti hall
Flemish hall
Central hall
The Parmeggiani Gallery can be considered a museum-home
that displays the 19th century collection of paintings, furniture,
and textiles once belonging to the Spanish painter, collector, and
antiques dealer Ignacio Leon y Escosura; weapons and goldwork
from the Marcy workshop in Paris; and a collection of paintings
by the Spoleto-based painter Cesare Detti. Luigi Parmeggiani,
an anarchist converted to art and antiques, was responsible
for bringing these three collections together, after moving his
collection to Reggio Emilia, his native city, in 1924.
The Gallery is located in an eclectic, gothic Renaissance building
built by Luigi Parmeggiani to house his peculiar collection.
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Musei Civici:
Museo del Tricolore
Civic Museums: Museum of the Tritcolore
address
phone +39 0522/456033 fax +39 0522/456476
e-mail
web
Green, white, and red cockade,
1848
First section
119
Piazza Prampolini,1 Reggio Emilia
42121 RE
musei@municipio.re.it
www.musei.re.it
Pietro Soliani, The Genius of liberty,
1801
Portrait of Bonaparte, 1799
In 2004, the Museum of Tricolore (the Italian Flag) was
inaugurated in the rooms adjacent to the historic hall in Reggio
Emilia where the flag itself was born on January 7, 1797. The
Museum uses innovative historiographic criteria to document
the most significant events related to the history of the Italian
flag and its relationship with the history of Italian unification.
The first section of the Museum uses prints, paintings, weapons,
mementos, replicas, and audiovisual material to document the
political history of Reggio Emilia from the birth of the Repubblica
Reggiana, in 1796, to 1814.
The second section displays original documents and mementos
related to the historical events of Risorgimento up to 1897, the
year in which the first centenary of the Italian flag was celebrated
in Reggio Emilia, with Giosuè Carducci’s famous speech as its
crowning moment.

Musei Civici:
Palazzo S. Francesco
Civic Museums: Palazzo S. Francesco
address
phone +39 0522/456477 +39 0522/456816 fax +39 0522/456476
e-mail
web
Via Spallanzani, 1 Reggio Emilia
42121 RE
musei@municipio.re.it
www.musei.re.it
Palaeolithic Venus found in the
Neolithic village of Chiozza
Deer attacked by wolf, last decade of
the 9th century
Prospero Sogari a. k.a. Il Clemente,
The servant girl
Milio Campanarius, second quarter
of the 12th century
Since 1830, the Civic Museums of Reggio Emilia have been
housed in Palazzo San Francesco.
Their origin dates back to 1799, with the purchase of a collection
belonging to the scientist Lazzaro Spallanzani. The museums
currently have several different sections, including collections
related to archaeology (Chierici Museum, Portico dei Marmi
- Roman section, Roman Museum, Roman mosaics, Museum
of Prehistory and Proto-history), ethnography, art history
(Fontanesi Gallery, Portico dei Marmi-Medieval section,
Medieval mosaics) and natural history (Spallanzani collection;
zoological, anatomical, botanical, geo-mineralogical, and
paleontological collections).
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Museo
della Tarsia
Tarsia Museums
address
phone +39 0522/658011 fax +39 0522/666953
e-mail
web
Inlaid tabletop with geometric
motifs, late 19th century
Circular table-top saw used to cut
the veneers used for geometric
marquetery
Worktable with materials and
models related to the decoration
of inlaid tables
View of the section dedicated
to inlaid furniture made in Rolo
during the Neo-classical period
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Corso Repubblica, 39 Rolo
42047 RE
info@comune.rolo.re.it
www.museodellatarsia.it
In the 18th and 19th centuries the town of Rolo was an important
centre of production for marquetery and inlaid furniture.
Evidence of this tradition, which still lives on locally, is on
display in Rolo’s Tarsia Museum, whose identity rests on the
study of woodworking and the decorative techniques of wood
marquetery. The museum has five sections: the types of wood
used, the building of furniture, decorative and finish techniques,
the sale of products in Italy and abroad, and the exhibition
gallery. Along with interesting, historical inlaid furniture, the
museum also displays tools and small machines, teaching
models, posters, and original drawings of ancient workshops.

Museo dell’Agricoltura
e del Mondo Rurale
Museum of Agriculture and the Rural World
address
phone +39 0522/636726 fax +39 0522/695986
e-mail
web
Tower clock, 20th century
Display in section 2 “The rural
world and agricultural production”
Display in section 12 “A
landowning family: the Bertanis”
Museo dell’Agricoltura
e del Mondo Rurale
Corso Umberto I, 22 San Martino in Rio
42018 RE
museo@comune.sanmartinoinrio.re.it
www.museodellagricolturaedelmondorurale.it
The Museum of Agriculture and the Rural World is housed in
the Este fortress, a monumental building in the town centre set
in a vast park. It collects, preserves, studies, and promotes the
testimonies and life experiences of peasants, landowners, and
artisan in the middle and upper Po Plain east of Reggio Emilia
prior to agricultural mechanization and industrial production.
The museum is very active in working with schools, families, and
adults. School projects and educational exhibits are borne out of
a constant dialogue with all of the area’s educational institutions.
For adults and families, the Museum organizes evening classes,
visits, games, workshops, and Sunday afternoon tastings.
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Rimini

La Casa Rossa
di Alfredo Panzini
The Alfredo Panzini’s Red House
address
phone +39 0541/343746 +39 0541/341642 fax +39 0541/345844
e-mail
web
Casa Rossa
Le Vele (banners)
Detail of the exhibition
Via Pisino, 1
Loc. Cagnona
musei@comune.bellaria-igea-marina.rn.it
www.casapanzini.it
Bellaria Igea Marina
47814 RN
The Casa Rossa stands atop a sand dune; the sea and the hills of
Romagna could once be seen from its windows. The writer Alfredo
Panzini (Senigaglia 1863 – Rome 1939) spent much of his life in
this villa after purchasing it in 1909, and it became a hub for friends
and writers. For Panzini, it provided a privileged insight into the
rural world that seeped into his writing. Visitors to the museum
are welcomed by banners bearing Panzini’s words, and exhorting
them to sail on the seas of memory. Items on display include the
famous bicycle – the austere Opel - from La Lanterna di Diogene
and country outings. The home itself is a museum, with ceramic
tiles inscribed with the titles of Panzini’s best known works.
A Mediterranean garden still surrounds the Casa Rossa, while
beyond the ditch the outbuildings (which are now part of the
museum) formerly comprised the farmhouse of the sharecropper
Finotti, a stable for the horse, and a shed for the cart.
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Museo
della Regina
Regina Museum
address
phone +39 0541/966577 fax +39 0541/967803
e-mail
web
Greco-italic amphora from
archaeological digs at Nuova
Darsena, 3rd century BC
Archaeological section: dolia and
Oscar Dominguez’s installation
Die for mask of Dionysus
Marine section: traditional
ship (balance lug sails),
model of trabaccolo lugger
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Via Pascoli, 23 Cattolica
47841 RN
museo@cattolica.net
www.cattolica.net/retecivica/italiano/cultura
Inaugurated in April 2000, the Museum of the Regina has two
different sections: an archaeological section and a marine
section.
The former houses a collection of material found in the city’s
two main archaeological digs, with the recent addition of ceramic
pottery from the Nuova Darsena; this material is from the 3rd
century BC to the 3rd century AD. Medieval and post-medieval
notations and objects complete the story of the city’s history,
with the Via Flaminia as its common thread.
The thematically-oriented marine section takes into account
the technical characteristics and construction styles of
ships, the different approaches to sailing, and related ethnoanthropological
aspects. The natural harbour at the mouth of
the Tavollo River, the birth of the port, and its changes over time
provide a narrative backdrop.

Mostra permanente
delle Maioliche Mondainesi
Permanent exhibition of Mondaino majolica pottery
address
phone +39 366/2078470 fax +39 0541/982060
e-mail
web
Decorated majolica, first half of the
17th century
Majolicas with olive wreath
decorations, late 16th century
Replica of a 16th century majolica
factory
Majolica with central medallion
decorated with helmeted male
bust, second half of the 16th
century.
Via Secondaria Levante Mondaino
47836 RN
musei@mondaino.com
www.cultura.provincia.rimini.it
The longstanding pottery-making tradition that has
characterized Mondiano since the second half of the 15th century
is fully documented in this museum, which displays the fruits of
casual discoveries, targeted archaeological surveys conducted
near the city walls and at the Malatesta fortress, and searches
for discarded pottery in the talus slopes just outside of town.
An extensive collection of pottery fragments from the 14th to the
16th centuries confirms restores Mondiano’s rightful position as
a leader in the history of Italian majolicas. The visitor’s attention
is also drawn to the function of majolica objects and their
construction, through replicas of tools, sounds, and music in the
reconstructions of a majolica craftsman’s workshop and of a set
table.
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Museo Paleontologico
Museum of Palaeontology
address
phone +39 366/2078470 fax +39 0541/982060
e-mail
web
Detail of a fish fossil
View of the second hall
Some aspects of the exhibits, with
a replica of a pelagic scene in the
background
Fossil fish in its host rock
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Piazza Maggiore, 1 Mondaino
47836 RN
musei@mondaino.com
www.cultura.provincia.rimini.it
Set in the Malatesta fortress, the architectural backdrop for
the city’s museums, the Museum of Palaeontology travels
far back in time to the ancient marine landscapes and living
beings that characterized this area of the Apennines during the
uppermost Miocene (about 6 million years ago). It displays a
rich fossil heritage, including fish fossils, remains of leaves,
and bird fossils from the peculiar sedimentary rock known
as tripoli, with a typically mealy, laminar texture, created by
siliceous microorganisms deposited during the early Messinian.
The museum’s exhibits frame the valuable findings from the
Mondaino fossil deposit in geological and evolutionary terms,
within a broader regional context.

Museo della Linea
dei Goti
Line of the Goths Museum
address
phone +39 0541/855320 +39 0541/855054 fax +39 0541/855042
e-mail
web
Flyer Encouraging the local
population to fight alongside the
German Army, 1944
English armoured vehicles on the
Montegridolfo hills, September
1944
Propeller from a US bomber that
fell in the Adriatic Sea in spring
1944
Poster Threatening death for
partisan fighters, 1944
Via Borgo Montegridolfo
47837 RN
info@museolineadeigoti.it
www.museolineadeigoti.it
The museum uses the original name given by Hitler to the
defensive line between the Adriatic and Tyrrhenian seas built
by the Germans in 1943-44: Gotenlinie, or “Line of the Goths”,
later known as the Gothic Line
The Museum has two different sections: the first displays
war relics, most of which were donated by the citizens of
Montegridolfo, and a collection of the weapons used by the two
opposing armies. The sequence of events is illustrated by ample
photographic documentation.
The second section displays a collection of models of Allied
and German military vehicles. The wall display cases feature
propaganda posters from both sides from 1943 to 1945, grouped
according to theme and with detailed captions. Other display
cases feature newspaper headlines from the crucial events of the
war.
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Museo Etnografico
di Valliano
Valliano Museum of Ethnography
address
phone +39 0541/864014 fax +39 0541/984455
e-mail
web
Frescos showing influences from
the Umbria-Marche school,
mid-15th century
Sanctuary of S.Maria Succurrente
Museum interior
The cart restored by the Laboratorio
Il Calesse workshop
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Via Valliano, 23 Montescudo
47854 RN
info@comune.montescudo.rn.it
www.comune.montescudo.rn.it
The Museum of Ethnography in Valliano di Montescudo,
annexed to the magnificent 15th century Sanctuary of S.Maria
Succurrente, is set in an enchanting valley rich in centuries-old
olive trees. The museum depicts the country home as the heart
of the rural world and helps visitors discover the trades, ways,
and traditions of peasant history and life.
Activities promoted by the museum include the Il Calesse
educational workshop, a pilot project launched in 2006 by the
IBC: its activities focus on the preservation, restoration and in
situ maintenance of multi-material objects and tools, thanks to
the valuable help of local volunteers who, under the guidance of
professional conservators, bring back to their ancient splendour
the farming tools on display in the Museum’s extensive outdoor
exhibition.

Museo Mulino Sapignoli
Sapignoli Mill Museum
address
phone +39 0541/629701
fax
e-mail
web
Millstone detail
Museum exterior
New millstone hall
Via Santarcangiolese, 4631
Loc. Santo Marino
museo@comune.poggio-berni.rn.it
www.comune.poggio-berni.rn.it
Poggio Berni
47824 RN
The Sapignoli Mill Museum welcomes visitors with its opening
hall, featuring millstones that can still turn wheat into flour. The
voice of an old miller tells visitors how a typical day at the mill
unfolds, while photographs and other mementos help set the
atmosphere.
The Museum aims to help the general public appreciate the
ethnographic patrimony of milling traditions, to highlight
existential and professional experiences in this sector, and to
recover historical memories in the Poggio Berni area.
The Sapignoli Mill Museum can be considered a small cultural
hub, since it hosts the municipal library and the Museum of
Milling Arts, slated to be completed with outdoor exhibitions
featuring a perfectly preserved Fossa Viterba, which will be
accessible to the public.
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Galleria d’arte moderna
e contemporanea
Villa Franceschi
Villa Franceschi
Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery
address
phone +39 0541/693534 fax +39 0541/475668
e-mail
web
Enrico Baj -Untitled
Interior of Villa Franceschi, Hall 4
Educational workshop
130
Via Gorizia, 2 Riccione
47838 RN
museo@comune.riccione.rn.it
www.comune.riccione.rn.it
The Gallery, inaugurated in 2005, is housed in Villa Franceschi,
an elegant early 20th century beach house that has been
carefully restored and converted to museum use. It displays,
in perfect harmony with part of the original decor, the civic art
collection and the prestigious “Arcangeli Collection”, deposited
here by the Emilia-Romagna regional government. The works
are representative of important aspects and trends in Italian
figurative art during the second half of the 20th century, and
testify to Italy’s main artistic currents, particularly with regards
to those of the Po Plain. Thanks to the flexibility of its layout,
the Villa promotes a popular series of temporary shows and
exhibitions. It also regularly carries out educational workshops
and initiatives.

Museo
del Territorio
Museum of the Local Territory
address
phone +39 0541/600113 fax +39 0541/698182
e-mail
web
Diorama of the Pleistocene lake in
Conca River
Hemiskeleton of a Pleistocene
bison
Roman era grave goods
Roman burial amphora
Via Lazio, 10 Riccione
47838 RN
museo@comune.riccione.rn.it
www.comune.riccione.rn.it
The Museum, founded in 1989, collects noteworthy natural
history and archaeological material from Riccione and its
surroundings. Thanks to numerous habitat replicas, a visit to
the museum unfolds like a trip back in time, from the origins
of life on Earth to the first prehistoric human settlements, and
finally to the Roman era. Particularly noteworthy is the section
on the Pleistocene, documented by the skeletal remains of a
massive pre-historic bison, along with those of elephants, bears,
rhinoceroses, and giant elk living in the Riccione area thousands
of years ago. The Museum has a rich programme of events that
highlight its role as a “living deposit” of the memory of the entire
Riccione community. It is also engaged in continuous education
workshops with specific training courses.
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Museo degli Sguardi.
Raccolte Etnografiche
di Rimini
Museum of Glances.
Rimini Ethnographic Collections
address
phone +39 0541/751224 +39 0541/704421 fax +39 0541/704410
e-mail
web
132
Via delle Grazie, 12
Loc. Covignano
Peru, Moche culture, Vase
depicting an ancestor, 450-600 AD
Pre-Colombian textiles and pottery
Africa hall
musei@comune.rimini.it
www.museicomunalirimini.it
Rimini
47923 RN
The Museum of Glances, dedicated to the culture, ethnology,
and archaeology of Africa, Oceania, and Pre-Colombian America,
houses one of Europe’s most important collections in these
fields. Inaugurated in 1972 as the Museum of Primitive Arts/Dinz
Rialto Collection, in honour of its founder, it was housed in Castel
Sismondo until 2000 and subsequently moved to Villa Alvarado,
the former Missionary Museum of Graces, under the name of
Museo degli Sguardi (Museum of Glances)/Rimini Ethnographic
Collections, with Marc Augé as its scientific directors. The
“glances” are those of Westerners who, from their first meeting
to the present days, have looked to other cultures in various
ways. The museum’s multi-cultural outlook encourages
reflections on our relationship with the culture and art of other
peoples.

Museo
della Città
Museum of the City
address
phone +39 0541/793851 +39 0541/704421 fax +39 0541/704410
e-mail
web
Giovanni Bellini, Pietà, about 1460
Giovanni da Rimini, The Last
Judgement, about 1310
The Surgeon’s Domus
(2nd or 3rd century AD)
Monuments from the Roman
Republic in the Roman lapidarium
Via Luigi Tonini, 1 Rimini
47921 RN
musei@comune.rimini.it
www.museicomunalirimini.it
The Museum of the City is housed in the 18th century Jesuit
College. The garden hosts the Roman lapidarium, the original
core collection from the recently completed archaeological
section, which traces the history of human settlement in the
area from prehistory to late antiquity. The decorated geometric
floor mosaic, representative of the Roman era and late antiquity,
is the main highlight of the lapidarium. Other noteworthy items
include a rare polychrome glass painting and the largest known
set of surgical tools from antiquity, discovered in the Surgeon’s
Domus, the ideal continuation of a visit to the museum, as it
is only a short walk away. The medieval and modern sections
include works from the 14th century Rimini school, masterpieces
from the Malatesta era, paintings by 17th century artists
including Guercino, Cagnacci and Centino and ending with René
Gruau’s advertising artwork.
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Museo
dell’Aviazione
Museum of Aviation
address
phone +39 0541/756696 fax +39 0541/905148
e-mail
web
DC3-Dakota
View of the park
134
Via Santa Aquilina, 58
Loc. Cerbaiola
DC-3 Dakota formerly belonging
to the American actor Clark Gable,
who purchased it from the United
States Navy
info@museoaviazione.com
www.museoaviazione.com
Rimini
47923 RN
With its 100,000 square meters, the Aviation Theme Park is the
largest private structure of its kind in Italy and Europe. Along
with over fifty aircraft from various countries, it also displays
numerous crafts used by several different armed forces after
World War II.
The Pavilion houses the largest existing collection of flight suits
and pilot uniforms (from the early 20th century to the present
day), along with honours and medals conferred upon the leading
aviators of the time. The park also houses the Monument to the
Aviator and a Monument commemorating the Ramstein tragedy,
along with Italy’s fist model airplane museum.

MET
Museo degli Usi e Costumi
della Gente di Romagna
MET
Museum of Romagna Folk Customs and Traditions
address
phone +39 0541/326206 +39 0541/624703 fax +39 0541/622074
e-mail
web
Mill (part.)
Section ...and I will tell you who
you are
Welcome area
Symbols. Puppet and mask
Via Montevecchi, 41 Santarcangelo
di Romagna
47822 RN
met@metweb.org
www.metweb.org/met
The Museum of Romagna Folk Customs and Traditions defines
itself as a living entity pursuing research and knowledge on folk
culture. Its main interest lies in the various aspects that make up
folk traditions (symbolism, social relations, work, and rituals) in
southern Romagna.
A museum of exhibits and testimonies, whose task goes beyond
displaying objects and images to communicating ideas.
A museum of ideas’ display must illustrate a series of real facts,
relations, and solved and unsolved scientific problems.
In such a layout, objects become tools to prove ideas; they
lose some of their individuality and become part of the broader
framework of the culture of a people.
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MUSAS
Museo Storico Archeologico
MUSAS
Museum of History and Archaeology
address
phone +39 0541/625212 +39 0541/624703 fax +39 0541/622074
e-mail
web
Jacobello di Bonomo, Madonna
with Child and saints, 1385
The main products of
Santarcangelo’s furnaces
136
Via della Costa, 26 Santarcangelo
di Romagna
47822 RN
met@metweb.org
16th century hall: Luca Longhi,
Madonna with Child between Saint
Francis and Saint George, 1531
www.metweb.org/musas/
The Museum of History and Archaeology of Santarcangelo di
Romagna (MUSAS) was established 2005 in order to preserve
and promote the archaeological, historical, and artistic heritage
of the town and its surroundings.
The archaeological section is set up to reflect over a century
of archaeological and historical research which has confirmed
many times the fertility and high productivity of the local
countryside, which required markets both near and far in which
to sell excess production. The historic and artistic section
features works from the Middle Ages up to the 19th century from
Santarcangelo and its surroundings.

Museo Civico
Archeologico
Civic Archaeological Museum
address
phone +39 0541/670280 +39 0541/670222 fax +39 0541/679570
e-mail
web
Engraved throne from the “Lippi
89” tomb, late 8th century BC
Museum exterior
Throne room
Via Sant’Agostino Verucchio
47826 RN
iat.verucchio@iper.net
www.comunediverucchio.it/museo
The Verucchio Archaeological Museum displays a wide array of
grave goods found in the Early Iron Age (9th to 7th centuries BC)
necropoles of Verrucchio, representing the Villanovan civilization
in the Romagna area.
Thanks to the exceptional nature of the archaeological finds
(including wooden furniture, wool textiles, wicker baskets,
valuable amber jewel), this unique patrimony makes it possible
for several unusual issues to be tackled scientifically.
The exhibition has been designed in order to be accessible to as
broad a public as possible, at several levels of detail. Additionally,
the museum’s displays are constantly updated in order to reflect
the findings from its intensive research and study activities.
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The procedure to accredit museums on the
basis of quality standards and goals is regulated
by:
REGIONAL LAW 18/00 “NORMS REGULATING
LIBRARIES, HISTORICAL ARCHIVES,
MUSEUMS, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE”
REGIONAL COUNCIL DECREE 309/03
“APPROVAL OF QUALITY STANDARDS
AND GOALS FOR LIBRARIES, HISTORICAL
ARCHIVES, AND MUSEUMS PURSUANT TO
REGIONAL LAW 18/00 “NORMS REGULATING
LIBRARIES, HISTORICAL ARCHIVES,
MUSEUMS, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE”
REGIONAL COUNCIL DECREE 1888/08
“APPROVAL OF CRITERIA AND GUIDELINES
FOR ACCREDITING REGIONAL MUSEUMS
ON THE BASIS OF QUALITY STANDARDS
AND GOALS PURSUANT TO REGIONAL LAW
18/00 “NORMS REGULATING LIBRARIES,
HISTORICAL ARCHIVES, MUSEUMS, AND
CULTURAL HERITAGE”
The first accreditation of the museums was
adopted with
REGIONAL COUNCIL DECREE 2049/09
“FIRST ACCREDITATION OF THE MUSEUMS
OF THE EMILIA-ROMAGNA REGION ON
THE BASIS OF QUALITY STANDARDS AND
GOALS PURSUANT TO REGIONAL LAW
18/00 “NORMS REGULATING LIBRARIES,
HISTORICAL ARCHIVES, MUSEUMS, AND
CULTURAL HERITAGE – YEAR 2009”
REGIONAL COUNCIL DECREE 1662/10
“FIRST ACCREDITATION OF THE MUSEUMS
OF THE EMILIA-ROMAGNA REGION ON
THE BASIS OF QUALITY STANDARDS AND
GOALS PURSUANT TO REGIONAL LAW
18/00 “NORMS REGULATING LIBRARIES,
HISTORICAL ARCHIVES, MUSEUMS, AND
CULTURAL HERITAGE – YEAR 2010
REGIONAL COUNCIL DECREE 1837/11
“FIRST ACCREDITATION OF THE MUSEUMS
OF THE EMILIA-ROMAGNA REGION ON
THE BASIS OF QUALITY STANDARDS AND
GOALS PURSUANT TO REGIONAL LAW
18/00 “NORMS REGULATING LIBRARIES,
HISTORICAL ARCHIVES, MUSEUMS, AND
CULTURAL HERITAGE – YEAR 2011”
The working group for the accreditation of
regional museums on the basis of quality
standards and goals, as set out in Regional
Council Decree 1888/08, was established with
managerial decree 185/2010.
The working group has the following members:
Maura Grandi (Civic Museums of the
Municipality of Bologna, municipal delegate);
Angelo Andreotti (Ferrara Civic Museums of
Ancient Art, municipal delegate); Luciana Prati
(Civic Art Gallery of Forlì, municipal delegate);
Ilaria Pulini (Modena Civic Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology, municipal delegate);
Antonella Gigli (Palazzo Farnese Museums
of Piacenza, municipal delegate); Francesca
Masi (NatuRa Museum of Ravenna, municipal
delegate); Elisabetta Farioli (Civic Museums of
Reggio Emilia, municipal delegate); Maurizio
Biordi (Rimini Municipal Museums, municipal
delegate); Claudia Pedrini (Imola Civic
Museums, Bologna provincial delegate); Nerina
Baldi (Ecomuseum System of the Municipality of
Argenta, Ferrara provincial delegate); Vincenza
Bambi (Silvestro Lega Art Gallery of Modigliana,
Forlì Cesena provincial delegate); Manuela Rossi
(Civic Museums of Carpi, Modena provincial
delegate); Anna Mavilla (Brozzi Museum of
Traversetolo, Parma provincial delegate); Carlo
Francou (Piacenza Natural Science Museum
and Geological Museum of Castell’Arquato,
Piacenza provincial delegate); Eloisa Gennaro
(Museum System of the Province of Ravenna,
Ravenna provincial delegate); Gabriele Fabbrici
(Civic Museum of Correggio, Reggio Emilia
provincial delegate); Maria Luisa Stoppioni
(Regina Museum, Cattolica, Rimini provincial
delegate); Gilberta Franzoni (Director of the
Office for Cultural Institutes of the Province of
Bologna, UPI delegate); Gian Pietro Cammarota
(Bologna National Pinacotheque, delegate of the
Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities);
Enrico Bertoni (Bertinoro Interreligious
Museum Foundation FC, private museums
representative); Micaela Lipparini (Cultural
Department, regional delegate); Laura Carlini
(Director of the IBC Museum Service) and
the following IBC staff members: Valentina
Galloni; Marvet Michela Guarino; Fiamma
Lenzi; Giovanni Battista Pesce; Margherita
Sani; Iolanda Silvestri; Patrizia Tamassia; Valeria
Villani.

Photo credits
Unless otherwise indicated, the photos belong to the
museums or come from the Catalogue of Cultural
Heritage in Emilia-Romagna.
p. 1: Museo della Civiltà Contadina Archive;
p. 2: Costantino Ferlauto, IBC (left) and Andrea
Scardova, IBC (top, middle, right);
p. 3: Matteo Monti, MAMbo - Museo d’Arte
Moderna di Bologna;
p. 9: Rino Bertuzzi, Museo del Patrimonio
Industriale, Photo Archive;
p. 11: Matteo Monti;
p. 12: Raffaello Scatasta (top and left) and Pier
Paolo Zannoni (middle and right), MEUS;
p. 13: Studio Pym Nicoletti/Studio Cesari;
p. 14: Matteo Monti (left) and Bruno Bani (right),
Museo Morandi;
p. 14bis: Roberto Serra (top and left) and Matteo
Monti (middle and right), Casa Morandi;
pp. 15, 16, 17, 18:
Vittorio Bonaga, Pierluigi Mioli and Sergio
Orselli, Musei civici di Budrio;
p. 20: Federico Labanti;
p. 21: Andrea Scardova, IBC (middle) and Musei
Civici di Imola Archive;
p. 23: Marco Ravenna (top and left), Marcello
Bertoni (middle) and Sergio Orselli (right);
p. 25: Tomaso Mario Bolis (top and right) and
Mauro Bacci (left);
p. 26: Luciano Calzolai;
p. 27: Luciano Marchi;
p. 28: Stefano Semenzato;
p. 29: Fabio Lambertini (left and middle) and E.
Rizzoli (right);
p. 30: Antonio Marzocchi (top), Andrea Morisi
(left), Bettina Maccagnani (middle) and
Romano Serra (right);
p. 31: Museo della Preistoria Luigi Donini;
p. 32: Fabio Lambertini;
pp. 33, 34:
Sergio Stignani;
p. 37: Costantino Ferlauto, IBC (left) and Sergio
Orselli (top and right);
p. 38: Le Immagini multimedia – Ferrara;
p. 49: Salvatore Mirabella;
p. 53: Casa Moretti Photo Archive (top and right)
and Costantino Ferlauto, IBC (left and
middle);
p. 54: Costantino Ferlauto, IBC;
pp. 55, 57, 58:
Giorgio Sabatini;
p. 56: Giorgio Sabatini (top and left) and Luca
Massari (right);
p. 59: Anna Gamberini (top, left, middle) and
Tommaso Raffoni (right);
p. 60: Matteo Rossi - Viterbo Fotocine, Longiano;
p. 61: Roberto Nanni (right) and Costantino
Ferlauto, IBC (top and left);
p. 63: Gabriele Melloni, Modena Province;
p. 64: Giorgio Giliberti (top, left and right) and
Gianni Grappi (middle);
p. 66: Luigi Ottani, Modena Province;
p. 67: Paolo Terzi, Modena Province;
p. 68: Luigi Ottani;
p. 69: Franco Bertolani (top, left and middle) and
Alberto Lagomaggiore;
p. 71: Galleria Civica di Modena (top, middle
and right) and Maurizio Malagoli, Modena
Province (left);
p. 73: Paolo Terzi, Museo Civico d’Arte di Modena
Photo Archive;
p. 74: Maurizio Malagoli (left and right);
p. 75: Walter Bellisi;
p. 76: Paolo Terzi, Modena Province;
p. 77: Rocco Bizzarri (top) and Alessandra
Chemollo (left and right);
p. 78: Mauro Davoli (top and right) and Ernesto
Bernini (left and middle);
p. 79: Mauro Davoli;
p. 80: Luca Rossi;
p. 81: Fabrizio Dell’Aquila (top), Alessandro
Gandolfi (left) and Luciano Galloni (right);
p. 82: Edoardo Fornaciari (top), Alessandro
Gandolfi (right), Fabrizio Dell’Aquila (middle)
and Luciano Galloni (right);
p. 85: Costantino Ferlauto, IBC;
pp. 87, 88, 89:
Lucio Rossi;
p. 91: Enrico Turillazzi;
p. 92: Alessandro Gandolfi (top and middle), Luca
Rossi (left) and Fabrizio Dell’Aquila (right);
p. 93: Luca Trascinelli;
p. 98: Alessandro Bersani;
p. 101: Gianluigi Barani and Vittorio Dordoni by
curtesy of Ministero per i Beni e le Attività
Culturali – Soprintendenza per i Beni
Archeologici dell’Emilia-Romagna;
p. 103: Luciano Cavassa (top);
p. 104: Museo della battaglia del Senio Archive;
p. 105: Andrea Scardova, IBC;
p. 106: Sandro Capatti (top), Studio La Foto Cervia
(left and middle) and Circolo fotografico
24/36 (right);
p. 114: Marco Menozzi;
p. 115: Pietro Parmiggiani, Museo Il Correggio
Archive;
p. 116: Museo Cervi Archive;
p. 118: Musei Civici, Reggio Emilia Photo Archive
(top) and Luigi Ghirri (left, middle, right);
p. 119: Paola De Pietri, Claudio Cigarini (left) and
Claudio Cigarini (top, middle, right);
p. 120: Marco Ravenna (top), Carlo Vannini (left and
right) and Musei Civici, Reggio Emilia Photo
Archive (middle);
p. 123: Claudio Ballestracci;
p. 124: Roberto Macrì (top and middle) and Dorigo
Vanzolini (left and right);
p. 127: Terzo Maffei;
pp.128, 135, 136:
Emilio Salvatori.

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