Centro culturale Carlo Venturini – Museo civico e Pinacoteca

About the museum

The “Carlo Venturini” Cultural Centre was created from a project to restore and reorganise the museum spaces, promoted by the Municipality of Massa Lombarda. It is housed in the restored Liberty-style building known as “Pueris Sacrum” and brings together, seamlessly, the library, the Museo civico Venturini and the municipal picture gallery (Pinacoteca comunale), on viale Zaganelli.

The museum holds the collection left to the city by Carlo Venturini (1809-1886), a physician, collector and honorary diplomat born in Massa Lombarda, a model example of nineteenth-century antiquarian collecting. After his death, books and objects were bequeathed to the city. The core consists of ancient material, above all Greek, Magna Graecia and Etruscan ceramics: there are buccheri, Corinthian and Etrusco-Corinthian vases and a red-figure hydria attributed to the workshop of Assteas and Python (4th century BC). There are also bronzes, Punic stelae from the Tophet of Carthage, majolica from Abruzzo and Faenza of the 17th and 18th centuries, glass, Roman and 19th-century coins, and a natural history collection of fossils, shells and minerals displayed in their original containers.

The picture gallery traces the local artistic culture from the 16th to the 18th century, with Venturini’s collection of 19th-century paintings, works by Giambattista Bassi and Angelo Torchi, and pieces by Orfeo Orfei and the Folli family.

Highlights

• Red-figure hydria attributed to the workshop of Assteas and Python
• Greek, Magna Graecia and Etruscan ceramics from the Venturini collection
• Punic stelae from the Tophet of Carthage
• Fossils, shells and minerals in their original containers
• Municipal picture gallery with local artists
• Liberty-style building “Pueris Sacrum”

Permanent exhibitions

• Museo civico Carlo Venturini – Archaeological, numismatic, applied arts and natural history collection left to the city by Carlo Venturini.
• Pinacoteca comunale – Paintings from the 16th to the 19th century and works by local artists such as Bassi, Torchi, Orfei and the Folli family.

Operated by

Comune di Massa Lombarda

Admission & discounts

Admission is free.

Admission is free.

Accessibility

• Wheelchair accessible
• Elevator: no information
• Accessible restroom: no information
• Accessible parking: no information
• Service dogs welcome: no information
• Tactile models & exhibits: no information
• Sign language tours: no information
• Easy-to-read materials: no information
• Audio description: no information

The building is accessible to people with reduced mobility; toilets are available.

Kids & families

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Getting there & parking

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Amenities & dining

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