THE MUSEUMS OF MONDOVI'

The Museum of Ceramics, inaugurated in 2010, was created to preserve and tell the story of the artisan tradition of this area specialising in ceramics. From the Napoleonic era until the first half of the 20th century, the art of ceramics also involved the surrounding towns, giving rise to productions with a particularly recognisable style. Housed in 17 rooms on the piano nobili of Palazzo Fauzone di Germagnano, a medieval palace built around the 7th century and now a state property, the museum houses the permanent collection of Monregalese ceramics and traces the various stages in the life of this particular production, creating an excursus through the history of Italian craftsmanship, which then entered a crisis with the industrialisation of the 20th century.

The Printing Museum, inaugurated in 2011, was created in Mondovì in honour of the fact that the first book in Piedmont was printed here in 1472. Housed in a large seventeenth-century building, once a convent of the Discalced Carmelites, the museum now has the most complete collection of printing machines and equipment in Italy, safeguarding the tradition of the art of printing. In the first room, the Editrice Tipografica Moderna (Modern Typographic Publishing House) has been reconstructed. It is a perfect example of a printing workshop still fitted out with the original furnishings: the typesetting bench, the old chests of drawers on which the font collections are arranged, the press and the printing machine. The tour, which is accompanied by a rich photographic and didactic display, takes the visitor through the various operational phases necessary for the creation of a print, whether it be a book, a newspaper or an artistic print.

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