Turin Museum of Natural History

The Turin Museum of Natural History (Italian: Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino or MRSN) was established in 1978 to house the natural history collections of the University of Turin and other collections of natural history, originated from specific research campaigns and donations. It is located at 36 Via Giolitti, Turin, in a 17th-century building which used to be the hospital of San Giovanni Battista, build by Amedeo di Castellamonte.

The museum has departments (sezioni) of zoology, entomology, botany, minerals, geology and paleontology. It also has a specialist library and an exhibition centre. 

The Museum was closed for an extended period due to explosion of gas tank. It was then re-opened last year.

This year,  for the entire month of August, admission to the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences of Turin is free. This is an opportunity to experience one of the leading museums dedicated to biodiversity, housed in a 17th-century building that once housed the San Giovanni Battista Hospital, designed by Amedeo di Castellamonte and completed by other important architects of the time. The scientific collections, open daily from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm, document the evolution of life on Earth through fossils, minerals, taxidermied animals, and remarkable naturalistic specimens. During the month of free admission, some rooms will undergo renovations, but the museum will continue to operate as usual. The initiative is part of a broader summer calendar of scientific culture, designed for a diverse audience attentive to the value of dissemination.

 Location :  Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino

Museum Lavazza - The Universe

 The Universe with a 360° immersion in the different settings relating to the world of coffee.  

The final step on a magical journey: the tasting experience. 

The Lavazza Coffee Experience is a unique experience, not just for coffee lovers but for anybody who wants to learn more about different aspects of the history and culture of coffee. A true tasting journey, experienced through unique, high-quality blends, and included free of charge as part of entrance ticket into the Museum.

Location: Museo Lavazza

Museum Lavazza - The Atelier

The Fourth sector of the exhibition route is The Atelier, with the Carousel, the sets and the testimonials of the advertisements and with the media interactivity of the cameras.

A unique area, whose images and installations give the impression of a film set. Here, young visitors can attend educational workshops, while adults rediscover some iconic characters from their childhoods: Caballero and Carmencita, the legendary stars of the unforgettable Italian TV show “Carosello”. They can also admire the history of Lavazza calendars, created through collaborations with the world’s most famous photographers.

Location: Museum Lavazza

Museum Lavazza - La Piazza

The third sector of the exhibition route is La Piazza, which showcase the design and different types of macchine for the coffee.

Celebrating coffee in all its forms

Here, the ritual of coffee is celebrated through Lavazza icons: the espresso, the espresso cup, coffee design, the “autobar” coffee van, and the Carmencita coffee maker. From the first espresso coffee machine to espresso in space: coffee is seen in all its forms, not just as a liquid, thanks to the creative flair and passion of those who work every day to bring innovation to the world of coffee.

Finally, a corner where it all comes together: design, history and the cutting edge, a preview of the Atelier.

Location: Museum Lavazza

Museum Lavazza - The Factory

The Second sector is The Factory: A journey through coffee and culture. With the sounds, colors and aromas of coffee; from plantations to harvesting to the production and distribution methods of the different varieties.

From the plant to the espresso cup, here we can explore the production process that makes up the coffee supply chain. Colours, sounds and aromas from the different stages of the coffee life cycle: from the plantations to the harvest and all the way to Turin, for processing and distribution. Visitors will learn about the essential roles performed at every stage, as well as the quantity of elements that are needed for sustainable, high-quality work.

Location: Museum Lavazza

Museum Lavazza - Casa Lavazza

The first exhibition sector is Casa Lavazza, i.e. the story of over 120 years of history of the Lavazza family, of coffee productivity and of the development of the brand.

This is the history of a family that grew into a company, and a company that grew to become a family.

And there’s nowhere better than “home” to trace the milestones in the life of Luigi Lavazza and the three generations that followed: an old bill of exchange, photographs, notes, accounting ledgers and grocery store lists attest to over 120 fascinating years of history.

 Location: Museum Lavazza

Museum Lavazza

The Lavazza Museum is one of the most recent museums in Turin. Located in the Aurora district, it is located in the Nuvola Lavazza complex, the new management center of the coffee producing company of the same name and covers approximately 1200 m2. 

Inaugurated in 2018, the museum, designed by Ralph Appelbaum's international studio, allows you to become aware of the culture of coffee by retracing, even in an interactive way, both the history of the Lavazza family and that of the Italian industry of the 20th century with reference to the entire supply chain some coffee. 

The museum exhibition is spread over a circular path on two floors and is divided into 5 specific areas, all equipped with interactive installations and each characterized by specific contents and precise themes.

Location : Lavazza Museum

Francesco Hayez In GAM

Francesco Hayez (10 February 1791 – 12 February 1882) was an Italian painter. He is considered one of the leading artists of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, and is renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories, and portraits.

The Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (Italian - Galleria civica d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Torino or GAM Torino) is an art gallery in Turin, Italy, founded in 1891-1895 and located in 31 via Magenta. With the MAO (Museo d'arte orientale), Palazzo Madama e Casaforte degli Acaja (Museo civico d'arte antica), the Borgo and the Rocca medioevali, it forms part of the Fondazione Torino Musei. The lower rooms house important reviews and a large collection of video art. 

It houses the city's permanent collections of 19th and 20th century art, which consist of over 47,000 paintings, sculptures, art installations and pieces of video art. Artists represented include Antonio Canova, Giovanni Fattori, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Antonio Mancini, Giacomo Balla, Paul Klee, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Giorgio de Chirico, Lucio Fontana, Nino Franchina and Domenico Valinotti. 

Art, history and politics intertwine in the great exhibition that the GAM of Turin dedicates to the romantic genius of Francesco Hayez (Venice 1791 - Milan 1882), accompanying the public to discover the artist's world, inside the painter's workshop, to reveal its techniques and secrets. An original journey that compares paintings and drawings, with over 100 works from prestigious public and private collections to which are added some important paintings by the artist kept at the GAM, such as the Portrait of Carolina Zucchi in bed (The Ammalata) and the 'Analing Angel.

Location: GAM

 

National Historical Museum of Artillery

The National Historical Museum of Artillery is a museum center of the history of military technologies, located in the city of Turin inside the Mastio della Cittadella (corner between Corso Galileo Ferraris and Via Cernaia). 

The building is the only fortified surface part of the Citadel left standing, demolished in the various expansions of the city.  

Its collections, around 12,000 objects, include portable firearms, artillery from the fourteenth century onwards, sidearms, uniforms, flags from the eighteenth century onwards, archaeological collections, scale models of the arsenal, paintings and engravings, as well as a rich library. of over 10,000 volumes, a historical archive, a photographic fund.

 

 

Location: Mastio della Cittadella

 

Capturing The Art

Many art exhibitions allow taking photo of the exhibition but no flash allow, with the new technology, it has became easy to make a picture of the art piece that you like either my camera or simply with the cell phone.

Just a reminder to all, please take the photo fast and not taking up all the time and space in front of the art piece so as not to obstruct other from admiring the same fine work.

Vittorio Corcos Exhibition

Vittorio Matteo Corcos (4 October 1859 – 8 November 1933) was an Italian painter, known for his portraits. Many of his genre works depict winsome and finely dressed young men and women, in moments of repose and recreation. 

 He was born to Jewish parents, Isacco e Giuditta Baquis, in Livorno. He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence under Enrico Pollastrini. Between 1878 and 1879 he worked under Domenico Morelli in Naples.

He then traveled to Paris where he met Léon Bonnat, and signed a contract with the Goupil & Cie, he was able to supplement his income as a portrait painter with illustrations for magazines. He frequented the circles of Giuseppe De Nittis. Between 1881 and 1886, he frequently exhibited at the Salon.

He returned to Italy in 1886, putatively to join the army, and settled in Florence. He converted to Catholicism and married a widow, Emma Ciabatti. In Florence, he made friends in the intellectual circles, and made portraits of Silvestro Lega, Giosue Carducci, and Pietro Mascagni. After 1900, he wrote for the Florentine Journal Il Marzocco. He also published a short story in the magazine Fanfulla della Domenica titled Mademoiselle Leprince. In 1904, he traveled to Potsdam to paint Emperor William II and other members of the German monarchy. During World War I, his son died in battle in 1916. In the 1920s he joined the Gruppo Labronico along with Plinio Nomellini and Ulvi Liegi.
He also painted portraits of Mussolini (1928); Countess Annina Morosini; Countess Nerina Volpi di Misurata; Carducci, Puccini and Mascagni; Queen Amélie of Portugal, Princess of Orleans;
 

In 1913, his self-portrait was accepted by the Uffizi museum.
 

He died in Florence in 1933.

The exhibition is hled in the Accorsi - Ometto Museum which is located in Via Po.

The Accorsi – Ometto Museum is a private museum based in Turin, northern Italy. It is chronologically the first decorative arts museum in Italy. The museum was originated from a legacy left by Pietro Accorsi (Turin, 1891–1982) and was opened by Giulio Ometto, president for life of the "Fondation Pietro Accorsi" and Director ad interim of the museum.

 Location : Museum Accorsi - Ometto