Museums

Museo Bersano delle Contadinerie e Stampe Antiche del Vino

Nizza Monferrato

Museo Bersano delle Contadinerie e Stampe Antiche del Vino

The museum collects a considerable testimony on wine production and life in the ancient farmhouses of Piedmont (the objects include wine presses of the 17th and 18th centuries). This is accompanied by iconographies from …

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Museo Borsalino

Alessandria

Museo Borsalino

The Borsalino Museum is a dynamic and innovative space which accompanies visitors on their discovery of the Italian hat culture. An emotional journey which overlays and interlaces many levels: the history of an entrepreneurial …

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Museo Civico

Moncalvo

Museo Civico

The collection donated by Franco Montanari is located in the Town Hall and hosts paintings and sculptures of contemporary Italian and international artists (Renato Guttuso, Giorgio Morandi, Osvaldo Licini, Modigliani, Marc …

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Museo Civico Archeologico - Castello dei Paleologi

Acqui Terme

Museo Civico Archeologico - Castello dei Paleologi

The first two rooms are dedicated to prehistory and to protohistory, with artifacts in chipped flint (Palaeolithic and Mesolithic: 120000-8000 years ago), polished green stone axes (Neolithic: 5750-3500 B.C.), ceramic finds …

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Museo Civico e Gipsoteca Bistolfi

Casale Monferrato

Museo Civico e Gipsoteca Bistolfi

The Civic Museum is located in the ancient Augustinian convent of Santa Croce which in its two cloisters preserves fresco decorations by Guglielmo Caccia known as Il Moncalvo with the help of Giorgio Alberini. Twenty-four …

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Museo d'arte sacra di San Francesco

Cassine

Museo d'arte sacra di San Francesco "Paola Benzo Dapino"

The museum is part of the former convent complex of the Church of San Francesco of Cassine, which belonged to the Order of Friars Minor Conventual. The property belongs to the Municipality that has decided to transform it …

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Museo degli Arazzi Scassa

Asti

Museo degli Arazzi Scassa

On the outskirts of Asti, the Carthusian monastery of Valmanera, an ancient monastery built by the Vallombrosan monks and later passed to the Carthusians, is home to the tapestry weaving mill founded by Ugo Scassa in 1957. …

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Museo dei Campionissimi

Novi Ligure

Museo dei Campionissimi

The Cycling Museum of Novi Ligure is a tribute to the history of cycling and the bicycle. A museum with more than 3,000 square metres to relive the myths of a sport together with the protagonists of the past and the present. …

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Museo dei Tramways

Altavilla Monferrato

Museo dei Tramways

Altavilla Monferrato is home to an important interchange station between three lines Asti-Casale-Alessandria, still used by the Arfea bus service. Here we find the steam Tramway Museum, integral part of the Ecomuseum of …

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Museo del giocattolo

Pontestura

Museo del giocattolo

The Museo del Giocattolo (Toy Museum) was opened on May 20th 2007 and houses the collection donated by Enrico Colombotto Rosso. In the first room are some 100 ceramic dolls made between 1880 and 1920, toy horses, illustrations …

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Museo del Risorgimento e Museo della Divisione Italiana Partigiana Garibaldi

Asti

Museo del Risorgimento e Museo della Divisione Italiana Partigiana Garibaldi

In 2012, the Museum of the Risorgimento was reopened to citizens and tourists in Palazzo Ottolenghi of Asti, which faces onto Corso Alfieri. An important event with the intent of returning to the city the Risorgimento collection …

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Museo dell'Apicoltura del Maglietto

Novi Ligure

Museo dell'Apicoltura del Maglietto

The Museum exhibits a unique collection that includes beehives, rustic skeps, feeders, honey extractors, presses, wax sculptures, beekeeping magazines, stamps dedicated to bees and lots of other material. There is also a …

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Museo della Civiltà Contadina dell'800

Castelnuovo Don Bosco

Museo della Civiltà Contadina dell'800

The museum exhibits everyday tools and objects linked to the rural culture of the area.

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Museo della Civiltà contadina di Santa Caterina

Montechiaro d'Acqui

Museo della Civiltà contadina di Santa Caterina

The Museum of Rural Civilisation of Montechiaro d'Acqui is located inside the ancient Church of the Confraternity of Santa Caterina next to the town hall. Tools of the peasant world, donated primarily by private citizens, …

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