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Museo della satira e della caricatura

Museum in the Forte Lorenese in Forte dei Marmi with works by caricaturists and cartoonists linked to the Premio Satira Politica; currently closed.

Temporarily closed

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Temporarily closed. The sources consulted indicate that the museum is currently closed to the public; the official website is under maintenance and gives neither opening hours nor a reopening date.

About the museum

The museum collects materials on the history of satire and caricature, in Italy and around the world. It grew out of the works submitted to the Premio Satira Politica (political satire prize), established in Forte dei Marmi in 1973, which remain the main core of the collection.

The seat is the Forte Lorenese, also known as Forte Leopoldo I or the “fortino” (little fort), an 18th-century construction commissioned by the House of Lorraine for defence and surveillance along the coast. Later the fort served as a store for marble awaiting shipment from the jetty, then was the Casa del Fascio and finally a post office; after a period of inactivity it housed the museum.

The collections include works by Italian and foreign caricaturists and cartoonists, among them Angiolo Tricca, Giovanni Mosca, Walter Molino, Lorenzo Viani, Golia and George Cruikshank. The library holds collections of historical satirical magazines of the 19th and 20th centuries, among them Simplicissimus, Punch, Le Rire, Marc’Aurelio and Il Becco Giallo. According to the sources consulted, the museum is currently not open to the public.

Highlights

Works from the Premio Satira Politica, established in 1973
Caricatures and cartoons by Tricca, Molino, Viani and Cruikshank
Library with historical satirical magazines such as Simplicissimus and Punch
Seat in the 18th-century Forte Lorenese