Bike-friendly museums

ACdB Museo - Alessandria Città delle Biciclette

Alessandria

ACdB Museo - Alessandria Città delle Biciclette

The museum Alessandria Città delle Biciclette (ACdB) is a tribute to the primary role which the city and the province of Alessandria played during the heroic age of cycling that embraces the early years of national unity …

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Atelier Sarina

Tortona

Atelier Sarina

The Atelier, open to the public since 10 March 2018, gathers a selection of puppets and stage materials of the Sarina collection (belonging to Fondazione CRTortona) in its two exhibition rooms of Palazzo Guidobono. The Atelier …

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Casa Coppi

Castellania Coppi

Casa Coppi

Among all the sporting cycling heroes of the past, the name of Fausto Coppi is still a shining example for all cyclists and more. If you want to get to know about the life and times of the Campionissimo, it is possible …

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Complesso monumentale di Santa Croce

Bosco Marengo

Complesso monumentale di Santa Croce

Santa Croce was commissioned by Pope Pius V Ghislieri (1504-1571) to honor his birthplace making it a religious centre for the promulgation of faith and Catholic doctrine. Some of the most renowned artists of the period …

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Deposito Museale Enrico Colombotto Rosso

Pontestura

Deposito Museale Enrico Colombotto Rosso

Some of the rooms in the town hall at Pontestura are home to a collection of works by Enrico Colombotto Rosso. This artist, born in Turin in 1925, is characterised by intense artistic work geared above all to creating museum-type …

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Ecomuseo Cascina Moglioni

Bosio

Ecomuseo Cascina Moglioni

The Ecomuseum is located in the heart of the Capanne di Marcarolo Nature Park, close to cascina Benedicta, symbolic site of the partisan struggle of this corner of the Apennines. The easy trail sets off from opposite the …

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Ecomuseo della Pietra da Cantoni

Cella Monte

Ecomuseo della Pietra da Cantoni

The Cantoni Stone Ecomuseum recounts and highlights the unique life and landscape of the Casale Monferrato, characterized by the Cantoni Stone. It promotes initiatives aimed at its recovery, not only as a historical and …

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Gipsoteca Giulio Monteverde

Bistagno

Gipsoteca Giulio Monteverde

The plaster-cast gallery preserves original models by the sculptor Giulio Monteverde, born in Bistagno in 1837 and document the important stages of the artistic activity of the sculptor from 1870 to 1917, the year before …

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I musei di Pellizza: lo Studio e il Museo didattico-Itinerario sui luoghi pellizziani in Volpedo

Volpedo

I musei di Pellizza: lo Studio e il Museo didattico-Itinerario sui luoghi pellizziani in Volpedo

The home town of Giuseppe Pellizza (1868 – 1907) pays homage to this painter through two museums which tell the story of his life and his work. The Museum of the Artist’s Studio next to the painter’s home, authentically …

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Marengo Museum - attualmente non visitabile

Alessandria

Marengo Museum - attualmente non visitabile

On 14 June 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte wins one of his most important battles in Marengo, remembered also at the Arc De Triomphe of Paris. The Museum is at the centre of the battlefield, close to the village of Marengo, in …

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Museo Borsalino

Alessandria

Museo Borsalino

The Borsalino Museum is a dynamic and innovative space which accompanies visitors on their discovery of the Italian hat culture. An emotional journey which overlaps and intertwines many levels: the history of an entrepreneurial …

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Museo Civico Archeologico - Castello dei Paleologi

Acqui Terme

Museo Civico Archeologico - Castello dei Paleologi

The first two rooms are dedicated to prehistory and to protohistory, with artifacts made of chipped flint (Paleolithic and Mesolithic: 120000-8000 years ago), polished green stone axes (Neolithic: 5750-3500 B.C.), ceramic …

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Museo Civico e Gipsoteca Bistolfi

Casale Monferrato

Museo Civico e Gipsoteca Bistolfi

The Civic Museum is located in the ancient Augustinian convent of Santa Croce which in its two cloisters preserves frescoes by Guglielmo Caccia known as il Moncalvo with the help of Giorgio Alberini. Twenty-four rooms are …

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Museo d'arte sacra di San Francesco

Cassine

Museo d'arte sacra di San Francesco "Paola Benzo Dapino"

The museum is part of the former convent complex of the Church of San Francesco of Cassine, which belonged to the Order of Friars Minor Conventual. The property belongs to the Municipality that has decided to transform it …

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Museo dei Campionissimi

Novi Ligure

Museo dei Campionissimi

The Cycling Museum of Novi Ligure is a tribute to the history of cycling and the bicycle. A museum with more than 3,000 square meters to relive the myths of a sport together with the protagonists of the past and the present. …

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