The Museum of Ceramics in Savona

Savona has a new jewel of art and culture in the heart of the old town: is the Ceramics Museum, through the efforts and close collaboration that has seen the A Foundation. De Mari and the City of Savona operate side by side in the creation of a museum dedicated to ceramics unprecedented Ligurian, especially Savona and albisolese, with a thousand works of great artistic value, from the fifteenth century to the contemporary, carefully selected by the curators Cecilia Chilosi and Eliana Mattiauda.
Home of the Museum is the magnificent building of the fifteenth pawnshop – A property of the Foundation. De Mari – founded in 1479 by Pope Sixtus IV Savona and restored by the same for the occasion, with a design intervention targeted on the one hand to preserve and enhance the historic parts and pre-existing, other, to promote a new usability public. In the new look of the Museum of Ceramics, spaces restored and set up on four floors are reopened for the first time to the public and connected directly, with this intervention, the adjacent Civic Art Gallery of Savona – housed in the Palazzo Gavotti owned by the City – with its extraordinary ancient paintings, first of all the Crucifixion of Donato de’ Bardi, unique in the panorama of Renaissance, and works by famous contemporary artists in the collection of the Foundation Museum of Contemporary Art Milena Milani in memory of Charles Cardazzo, including Picasso, Fountain, De Chirico, Magritte and Miro.
Find space in the Museum collections owned by the Pinacoteca Civica – the ancient vaseria Hospital San Paolo, the prestigious donation of Prince Boncompagni Ludovisi and pieces donated or on deposit at the Pinacoteca from 2011 (Folco collected and Figliolia) - In addition to the pottery acquired over time by the Foundation A. De Mari, as Kit pharmacy Cavanna, collection Bixio and important works from the editions of the Biennial of Ceramics, made by well-known contemporary artists and designers including Michelangelo Pistoletto, Adrian Paci, Yona Friedman, Alberto Garutti, Ugo La Pietra, Alessandro Mendini, Andrea Branzi, Pekka Harni and Franco Raggi.