Civic Museum of Moncalvo

The Civic Museum of Moncalvo is a stop that will give an extra touch to your visit. Located in the rooms that once belonged to the Ursuline convent in Via Caccia at number 5, the museum is a small jewel that amazes tourists and visitors.

You will find on display the private collection of the Moncalvo ambassador Franco Montanari, donated to the city of Moncalvo, a precious art gallery with works by Guttuso, de Chirico, Chagall, Afro, Maccari and many other painters of the twentieth century, as well as works of African art and also a collection of Japanese art including prints, seventeenth-century paintings and Kakemono.

It is possible to admire, among other works, three masterpieces by Orsola Maddalena Caccia, three wonderful still lifes that are actually theological narratives, real prayers. The A.L.E.RA.MO Onlus, which manages the Museum in agreement with the Municipality, sets up various temporary exhibitions of various kinds every year in order to meet everyone’s interest.

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Apertura nei week end dalle 10:00 alle 18:00. Gli orari delle visite sono: 10.30; 12:00; 13:00; 15:30; 17:00

info@aleramonlus.it

+39 351 9493084

Via Caccia, 5, 14036 Moncalvo AT

A.L.E.RA.MO Onlus

Since 2008, the association has been promoting cultural projects of tourist importance and experimentation in the territory of Monferrato Casalese and Asti. It avails itself of the contribution of its members and volunteers and external collaborators chosen from time to time for their specific professionalism. In particular, it has set up a working group made up of 20 experts in different disciplines, all of which are useful and necessary for its activity and who can collaborate as needed.

The projects designed and implemented have obtained funding from banking foundations and the Piedmont Region. Over time, we have collaborated with service clubs (Lions Club, Kivanis, Rotary), cultural associations (Italia Nostra, Circolo Marchesi del Monferrato, Ass. dei Paesaggi Vitivinicoli Langhe-Roero e Monferrato Unesco site, L’età Verde, Centro studi Femininum Ingeniun). A project that has been developed for ten years has obtained the recognition and patronage of the Pontifical Council of Culture signed by Mons. Carlo Ravasi.

From the beginning, it has collaborated with local schools (Casale Monf.to; Asti; Moncalvo; Rosignano, Pontestura; Vignale) and with the Accademia Albertina in Turin by promoting workshops, projects and hosting internships.
She promoted the establishment of a collective of young artists who graduated from the Albertina Academy, Brera Academy and Teatro alla Scala.
It prides itself on promoting young people (e.g. collaboration in the publication of a historical text by a young heraldry enthusiast who is only 18 years old; historical reconstruction of two dresses by a young Brera graduate).

The association, among other things, has published the first Italian-English text on art in Monferrato (Fede e cultura nel Monferrato by Guglielmo and Orsola Caccia, 2013).
He has set up, organized and promoted 42 art exhibitions and 38 catalogues and some cultural notebooks). He has created 3 cultural and thematic itineraries in Monferrato in search and discovery of Romanesque emergencies and the related tourist-cultural guides.

Since 2017 she has been promoting the DonnaDonne project dedicated to artists of the present and the past.

It has always promoted a philosophy of slow tourism or, as it is now called, “sustainable”, in the belief that only a reasoned and conscious access to the territory and the beauties it contains can bear fruit: to those who arrive there and above all to those who live there, since Monferrato cannot be a territory for mass tourism that is not very respectful of the places visited that invades Moncalvo only two Saturdays in October on the occasion of the Fair and a weekend in December on the occasion of the Fat Ox Fair.
Valuable occasions to be enhanced and preserved as an ancient legacy of traditions and memory, but which cannot be the only occasions of attraction.

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