Museo di Arte Sacra di Valstrona

About the museum

The museum was established in 1985 to preserve and make known the historical and artistic heritage of the parish church of Saints Peter and Paul and of the Valstrona area. It occupies two rooms of the sacristy in the hamlet of Forno and holds about five hundred works from the 15th century onwards, arranged in chronological order.

The wooden sculptures are of particular importance: they express the mountain culture of the valley and the woodworking skill that emigrants carried abroad. They include a Madonna of the Rosary from the mid-17th century, two pairs of gilded and polychrome reliquary busts, and a Pietà from the early 18th century, carved from a single trunk with a star-shaped base.

The museum also displays paintings, silverware and liturgical furnishings, largely of Lombard production, brass alms dishes embossed in a German workshop, sacred vestments and 19th-century votive panels recalling the great snowfall of 1888 and the shipwreck of 1805, when an emigrant ship bound for America sank.

Highlights

• Wooden sculptures from the mountain culture of the Valstrona
• Madonna of the Rosary from the mid-17th century
• Pietà carved from a single trunk
• Votive panels on the 1888 snowfall and the 1805 shipwreck
• Vestments, silverware and liturgical furnishings

Permanent exhibition

• Collezione di arte sacra – About five hundred works including wooden sculptures, paintings, vestments, silverware and votive panels, from the 15th to the 19th century.

Founded

1985

Operated by

Parrocchia dei SS. Pietro e Paolo di Forno

Admission & discounts

Admission is free.

Free admission.

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Multimedia stations are available in the museum.

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