Type:

Luoghi della cultura; Ente/Istituzione

Category:

Art museums

Founded at the beginning of the 20th century at the instigation of the Associazione pro Valle Camonica and continued thanks to Father Romo Putelli's foresight (1880-1939), the Museum, municipal property, is now situated on the second and third floors of the "Palazzo della cultura" in Breno, which was once the Federici family's refined residence in the age of the late 15th century, yet today now houses the library, the library district headquarters and the information center of the Valley Camonica's cultural system, in addition to the Museum. Divided into ten rooms and a gallery, the Museum contains works of art - paintings, coats of arms, furnishings and utensils - ranging from the Prehistoric Age till the first half of the 20th century. Next to the works that testify to the transformation of the painting productions between the XV and the XX centuries (rooms 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9) by artists such as C. Piazza, G. Romani (Il Romanino), G. B. Crespi (Il Cerano), C. Procaccini, F. Monti, F. Hayez, G. Diotti, P. Loverini, and M. Bianchi, is a collection of portraits and coats of arms of Camunian families from the XVI to the XX centuries (room 1), a collection of locally originated archaeological findings dating from the Prehistoric Age to the Roman Age (gallery), a display of artifacts that document lithurgical furnishings (room 5), on which can be found carvings dated from the XV to the XIX centuries, belonging to the Fantoni family from Rovetta and from a workshop owned by G. G. Piccini, from Nona in Valdiscalve, as well as civilian furniture from the Renaissance to the Modern Age (room 6) and lastly a collection of decorative objects from the popular Camunian culture (room 10).