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Lugano
A day dedicated to art in Lugano
Lugano
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.
Then, along the lakeside promenade, continue your journey into the world of art with a visit to the MASI headquarters at LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura. The museum offers an intense program of 20th and 21st century art exhibitions. Next to the LAC, visit the Giancarlo and Danna Olgiati Collection. Conclude the day with an aperitif in Piazza Luini.
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 3D
- 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
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Related activities
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Lugano
Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati
The Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati, open to the public in the exhibition venue next to the LAC cultural centre, displays over 200 important artworks, selected according to different criteria on the basis of its presentation.
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Lugano
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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Lugano
Fondazione Gabriele e Anna Braglia
The Foundation aims to advance art and cultural education.
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Lugano
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.
