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A day dedicated to art in Lugano
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Start your day with a visit to MASI in the Palazzo Reali, a Renaissance building that presents works from the permanent collection and temporary exhibitions dedicated to contemporary art.
After a visit to MASI in its Palazzo Reali venue, which presents the permanent collection and temporary exhibitions dedicated to contemporary art, continue by visiting MASI’s LAC venue. Here you will discover an intense program of art exhibitions from the 20th and 21st centuries. Not far away you can visit the Giancarlo and Danna Olgiati Collection.
The ideal program:
Observations
Excursion for everyone
Morning
- Visit Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana (MASI) inside its site at Palazzo Reali
- Walk along the lakeshore and stroll around the city centre
Afternoon
- Visit Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana (MASI) inside its main site at LAC
- Visit "Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati"
- Enjoy an aperitif in Piazza Luini
Not to be missed
- Santa Maria degli Angioli
- Gipsoteca Gianluigi Giudici
- Fondazione Gabriele e Anna Braglia
- several different Art Galleries of the Region
- Fondazione Lindenberg – Villa Pia (Porza)
- MUSEC Museo delle Culture
- Museo Mario Bernasconi (Pazzallo)
- Museo Hermann Hesse (Montagnola)
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Contact
Lugano Region tourist office
Piazza della Riforma
6900 Lugano
+41 58 220 65 00
info@luganoregion.com
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Opening
Open all year
Open on
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Links
Related activities
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Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati
The Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati, is open to the public in the exhibition venue next to the LAC cultural centre, displays over 200 important artworks, that span the decades between the early twentieth century to the present.
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Gipsoteca Gianluigi Giudici
The Gipsoteca Gianluigi Giudici is a museum that has been conceived, promoted and created by the Renato and Gianluigi Giudici Foundation.
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Fondazione Gabriele e Anna Braglia
The Foundation aims to advance art and cultural education.
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Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano - sede LAC
The MASI Lugano born by the merging between the Museo Cantonale d’Arte and the Museo d’Arte. In LAC the exhibitions focus on modern and contemporary art.
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Porza
Fondazione d'Arte Erich Lindenberg - Museum Villa Pia
The Museum Villa Pia in Porza, created by the "Fondazione d'Arte Erich Lindenberg" costituted in 2008 by Mareen Koch, has as mission the conservation and promotion of the German painter Erich Lindenberg (1938-2006).
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Pazzallo
The Mario Bernasconi Museum
Museum and house of birth with a collection of artwork by sculptor Mario Bernasconi (1899 – 1963) and his wife, the painter Irma Bernasconi Pannes (1902 – 1971). The house of birth exhibits the artwork of the Twenties with drawings, stories, photographs and personal objects from the sculptor.
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Montagnola
The Hermann Hesse Museum
The Museum hosts precious evidence of Hermann Hesse’s last 43 years in Montagnola up until his death.
