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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.
Excursion for everyone
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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.
The Gipsoteca Gianluigi Giudici is a museum that has been conceived, promoted and created by the Renato and Gianluigi Giudici Foundation.
The Foundation aims to advance art and cultural education.
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.
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).
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.
The Museum hosts precious evidence of Hermann Hesse’s last 43 years in Montagnola up until his death.