MAON – Museo d'Arte dell'Otto e Novecento

About the museum

The MAON opened on 4 May 2004 on the initiative of the Centro per l'arte e la cultura “Achille Capizzano” of Rende, founded in 1997 and named after the artist Achille Capizzano, also from Rende. It is housed in Palazzo Vitari, in the historic centre of Rende. After several exhibitions hosted in the past, the Centre decided to create a collection of its own, dedicated in particular to Calabrian artists and to those who have worked in the area over the last two centuries.

Around the core of paintings by Achille Capizzano is gathered the work of many Calabrian artists of the diaspora, who are part of the national and international art scene. The collections include the Arte in Calabria collection, the section of Italian and international art, the Carmine D. Rizzo collection, the graphic section of the Maestri del Novecento (masters of the 20th century) and the Luigi Ladaga collection; the museum also holds an important documentary archive and a library.

From 2008 to 2009 the museum hosted a collection of 85 drawings, pastels, watercolours and prints by Umberto Boccioni. In 2024 the museum was accredited to the Sistema Museale della Regione Calabria and to the Sistema Museale Nazionale.

Highlights

• Collection of Achille Capizzano (1930s–1950s)
• Permanent holdings of artists born in Calabria in the 19th and 20th centuries
• Graphic section of the great masters of the 20th century
• Carmine D. Rizzo and Luigi Ladaga collections
• Works digitised in high definition on the website

Permanent exhibition

• Raccolte permanenti del MAON – Chronological route with the Capizzano collection, the collections of Calabrian artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, Italian and international art, and the graphic works of 20th-century masters.

Founded

2004

Operated by

Centro per l'arte e la cultura «Achille Capizzano»

Visitors per year

approx. 6,500

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Accessibility

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