The Giuseppe Gianetti Ceramics Museum, inaugurated in 1994, and the collection of fine eighteenth-century and contemporary ceramics, is located inside a 1938 villa which was the home of the Biffi family, of which Nina was Giuseppe Gianetti's wife. period villa, the floors, the parquet, the marble, the staircases, the windows, the furnishings, the paintings, the mirrors, the Murano chandeliers, the bathrooms with the relative taps and even the light switches are preserved unchanged.Worthy Of note is the railing of the staircase leading to the second floor of the Museum, which was created based on a design by Carla Biffi, and the built-in wardrobes, recently transformed into display cases that house the collector's personal effects. The surrounding garden is also usable. the Museum with its small rose garden and contemporary art installations. The museum was conceived not only as a place of memory and collection, but as an opportunity to create a movement of expression-creation and documentation-research in the field of visual arts, plastic and decorative. The accurate work of research and cataloguing, conservation, valorisation, dissemination and educational proposals are qualifying and vital points of this Museum supported by the COE Centro Orientamento Educativo Foundation.
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