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VISITITALY WHAT TO SEE MUSEUMS PIEDMONT

Museums of Piedmont

Visititaly recommends the complete list of museums to visit in Piedmont, the most important attractions for spending a day with friends and family. The museum circuit of the Piedmont region is widely distributed throughout the territory, in fact one municipality out of three hosts a museum structure. Visiting a museum is an effective learning method, used effectively both by schools to improve their educational offer and by tourists wishing to learn about the history and culture of the region. Discover the galleries, art galleries, permanent exhibitions, collections and collections, plaster casts, foundations and all the places linked to culture that characterize the Piedmont region and its territory. If you have visited a museum and would like to share your experience with others, please report ithere!

Asti - Museums

Arazzeria "Scassa"

The “Scassa” tapestry was founded in 1957. It is located in the Charterhouse of Valmanera. Inside it exhibits a wide range of tapestries and a laboratory for the restoration of ancient tapestries. The museum is available to the public. At the gates of Asti monastery built by the Vallombrosan monks and then passed to the Carthusians who inhabited it until the Napoleonic era, abandoned and partly destroyed it was restored and destined to host the Museum. Scassa Tapestries.

Asti - Museums

Casa Natale di Vittorio Alfieri

The Palace that dates back to the Middle Ages is recognized as the accommodation of the family of the poet Vittorio Alfieri at the end of the 17th century. The building was transformed into a museum at the end of the twentieth century, where a civic library was built with the contribution of Count Leonetto Ottolenghi. After the Count gave the palace to the Municipality of Asti, two rooms on the main floor were restored on the initiative of the Municipality and the bust of Vittorio Alfieri was placed in the courtyard.

Entracque - Museums

Museo di Arte Sacra

The museum is located in a large room near the parish church, and in it we find several works. It exhibits paintings representing scenarios of the past related to religion, from the 17th and 18th centuries. We also see urns, processional podiums of Saint Anthony and the Rosary, sculptures of saints and sacred furnishings. Old liturgical books, codes, cups and candle holders are shown in the stained glass windows. Part is reserved for old sacred liturgical garments, such as robes, copes and planets.

Nizza Monferrato - Museums

Museo "Bersano" delle Contadinerie e Stampe antiche del vino

The museum of “Bersano” collects an important testimony on the processing of wine and life in the ancient Piedmontese farmhouses accompanied by a collection of iconographies from the 16th century to the present day. Among the objects that are found we can name for example hoes, buckets, paioli, sectaci etc. In the museum you can also see very rare labels of all kinds; hand-painted with caricatures and also printed.

Asti - Museums

Pinacoteca Civica

The Civic Art Gallery of Asti is located, together with the Museum, in the historic Palazzo Mazzetti, which until 1442 had been a strong house owned by the Asti family of the Turco. Since 1940 the Palace has been the seat of the Civic Art Gallery which includes valuable collections. Among the important works, we must remember the tables of San Martino Alfieri dating back to 1400 and 1500, Michelangelo Pittatore, Giancarlo Aliberti, Guglielmo Caccia, and the section dedicated to Genoese painters from 1600. The property also houses a precious collection of antique fabrics.

Bistagno - Museums

Gipsoteca "G. Monteverde"

The Gipsoteca “G. Monteverde” was born from a nucleus of collections coming from the collections of Giulio Monteverde, donated to the Municipality of Genoa in 1919 by his daughters. The thirty works on display are organized in chronological order. In the first room there is the self-portrait of the artist created in 1917, the same year as his death. They are works of great value that attract thousands of tourists every year and all interested in the art of chalk.

Villar Pellice - Museums

Ecomuseo di Archeologia Industriale "E.Crumière"

The Ecomuseum of Industrial Archaeology “E.Crumière” was built in 1995 by the collaboration between the Municipality of Villar Pellice, the Mountain Community Val Pellice and the Cooperative Nuova Crumière. The factory was transformed into a museum to avoid the degradation of a typical architecture of a village and in this way to allow the recovery of the materials of the factory that rebuild life economic of the company.

Alba - Museums

Museo Civico Archeologico e di Scienze Naturali "F. Eusebio"

The “Federico Eusebio” Civic Archaeological and Natural Science Museum was founded in 1897 by Federico Eusebio, to present the historical-archaeological collection. Since 1976 it occupies the same headquarters and has been enriched with sections illustrating the natural history of the territory. The set-up made it possible to integrate with the findings of the last 25 years. Practically we can say that it presents a large picture of the prehistory of the Roman city.

Asti - Museums

Complesso Monumentale di S. Pietro in Consavia

The Monumental Complex of St. Peter in Consavia is a Catholic church in Asti, consisting of four buildings dating from the twelfth century to the fourteenth century. Within the monumental complex, the museum preserves an archaeological section that includes materials from the Roman period that constituted the funeral kit of burials of the I, II and III centuries AD; a section Egyptian comprising wooden sarcophagi with related mummies, canopic vases, fragments of hieroglyphic inscriptions and a paleontological section dedicated to fossils of the recent tertiary.

Cuneo - Museums

Museo Ferroviario

The Railway Museum is located at the train station of Cuneo. In the Royal Hall, the family waiting room, you can see photos and vintage newspapers, you can look at the boards with the different types of caps used by railway workers, the series of tickets, licenses and travel cards. Outside, you can admire an old car from 1943, containing documents relating to the railway line. The Calvano knight is the owner of the Museum and deals, at his own expense, with any restorations.

Vercelli - Museums

Museo C. Leone

Museo Camillo Leone consists of two different buildings, the Alciati House erected in the fifteenth century and the Palazzo Longosco of the 18th century. The museum consists of thirteen rooms in which we can admire the archaeological collections from the Iron Age until the Risorgimento period of the Vercelli notary, Camillo Leone. In the halls there are also frescoes from the early sixteenth century with mythological scenes. Also interesting are the collections of vases that come from the Apulian necropolis.

Oleggio - Museums

Museo di Arte Religiosa

The Museum of Religious Art takes its name from the founder priest Father Augusto Mozzetti. The priest strongly wanted to set up the same museum in 1970 in order to preserve and enhance the works of art of the Olegese territory arrived from the churches in the surroundings and that belong to the period from the 15th to the 19th century. The property is located inside the Church of Saints Peter and Paul. The museum offers a rich history, art and devotion of the country.

Avigliana - Museums

Dinamitificio Nobel

An extraordinary example of industrial archaeology of the early twentieth century, the Nobel Dynamitificio was built in 1873 on a hill on the edge of the town of Avigliana. Equipped with electricity and an internal railway connected to the Avigliana station, it was equipped with a chemical laboratory and produced, in addition to explosives, chemical intermediates, by-products of processing main, fertilizers and varnishes. During the Last World War the plant was the scene of bombing and partisan actions, and closed its doors in the 1960s. The Nobel Dynamitificio Museum, inaugurated in 2002, is a piece of the collective memory of the territory and testifies to the social and productive transformations that occurred over the years. Unique in its kind, it offers an interactive set-up with videos, documents, explanatory panels, vintage photographs and tools used in the production of explosives. In addition, the Museum provides a visit route that, touching the anti-aircraft shelter for workers, tunnels and burst rooms, allows the visitor to immerse himself totally in the reality of the factory, touching the dangerousness and life difficulties of the workers.

Bardonecchia - Museums

Museo Civico Etnografico

Do you want to know the testimonies of the material culture of the old mountain village of Bardonecchia? Since 1954 there is the Ethnographic Civic Museum, housed in the nineteenth-century building once the seat of the municipal house. It offers an insight into the daily life and culture of mountain people, and illustrates the rhythms of the agricultural and pastoral economy that characterized the country before the advent of mass tourism. It collects objects, furniture, furnishings and tools, as well as a small section of sacred art. It is also possible to observe the local women's costume and the precious lace made in a ring, a traditional workmanship that is still practiced by some local women. Also on display are objects and work tools, photographs and vintage postcards depicting views of the time that was.

Novalesa - Museums

Museo archeologico dell'Abbazia

In the millennial abbey of Novalesa since 2009, the Archaeological Museum exhibits most of the finds that emerged from the excavation campaigns conducted from 1978 to today, as well as two sections dedicated to monastic history and to restoration of the book. The first room is dedicated to the restoration of the book, art still practiced today in the laboratory attached to the abbey, and illustrates the types of writer supports, the evolution of writing, the techniques of engraving and press, and restoration. The same room also houses the section dedicated to the history of monasticism and monastic life. In the third room there is the largest number of artifacts, grouped according to chronology: fragments of statues, funeral inscriptions, parts of sarcophagi and architectural elements, everyday objects and fragments of fresco pictorial decorations assigned to the intervention of Tolosan Anthoyne de Lhonye.

Vaie - Museums

Museo laboratorio della Preistoria

Located in the heart of the historic center of Vaie, the Museum Laboratory of Prehistory offers the visitor the collection of experimental reconstructions and casts of the finds of Vayes. The thematic path, completed by a series of illustrative panels, presents aspects of everyday life in Prehistory, with particular attention to materials, technologies and uses. To learn about prehistoric materials, tools and procedures, numerous workshops are active designed for children and adults, also for people with special needs. In addition, demonstration days and internships for adults take place during the year.

Moncenisio - Museums

Ecomuseo Terre al Confine

The small town of Moncenisio hosts at the ancient “common house” the Ecomuseum Terre at the Border, which illustrates the daily life and the environment of border territories such as those of the Val Cenischia and the Cenischia crossing Moncenisio. The ecomuseal route includes, in addition to the exhibition room, also an external itinerary that touches the common oven, the sink, the mill, the sundials painted on the facades of the huts. In addition, in the area of the Great Lake, some panels illustrate the history of the Fell Railway, which at the end of the nineteenth century connected Susa to St. Michel de Maurienne through the Moncenisio pass.

Salbertrand - Museums

Ecomuseo Colombano Romean

The Colombano Romean Ecomuseum in Salbertrand, in the Gran Bosco Natural Park, collects the memories of land and water of the community. The route includes: the hydraulic mill, which tells 800 years of exploitation of water, from feudal milling rights to the production of electricity; the school of the past and a set-up ethnographic; the common oven of the Oulme hamlet; the ancient charcoal maker and the lime furnace; the nineteenth-century ice box with the adjoining supply pond; the smoke-sauna built thanks to a project European conducted by the Politecnico di Torino; the site dedicated to the Glorious Return of the Waldenses. The tour also includes the splendid parish church of St. John the Baptist and the chapel of the Annunziata di Oulme. Ancient buildings and artifacts present themselves to the visitor as examples of a past today to be discovered. For school groups and organized groups there are thematic accompaniments carried out by specialized guides and educational courses have been devised. In addition, since 2006, the cultural association Ar.Te.Mu.Da animates guided tours to the ecomuseum with theatricalized accompaniments.

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