10 Museums in Province of Vicenza That You Shouldn't Miss

The project of the Foundation - a private non-profit organization that is open to the public – arosefrom the attention and sensitivity towards the culture of design and architecture that have always driven Bisazza. The Bisazza Foundation has a dual vocation: it is intended as an exhibition space to bring together works and installations by contemporary designers and architects who, over the course of the last 20 years, have created original applications for mosaics; it is also proposed as a cultural subject in continuous interaction with other international institutions for the purposes of hosting projects and exhibitions of design and architecture, not necessarily associated with mosaics.

The Palazzo Chiericati has been the historic home of the Civic Museum since 1855 and now houses the city's collections of paintings, sculptures and applied arts from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries. A masterpiece of Palladio's early maturity (1550), the building not only has decorations from that period but also holds important documents on Vicenza's art history. The Museum of Palazzo Chiericati reopened the Palladian wing on December 2013, after the restoration works. On the main floor, the visitor can enjoy the works of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, contemporary to the construction of the building. The attic hosts the Bequest of Marquis Giuseppe Roi: his personal collection of paintings, drawings and engravings from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, set in a charming display of house-museum. On the ground floor the visitor can admire, in a temporary exhibition, a selection of masterpieces of the collection not currently on display: Paolo Veneziano, Memling, Montagna, Fogolino, Sansovino, Tintoretto, Maffei and Pittoni. In the basement are located the works donated to the museum by the sculptor Nereo Quagliato.

Asiago branch of INAF-OAPd (National Institute of Astrophysics, Astronomical Observatory of Padova) and DFA-UniPd (Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Padova), is the ideal place for the direct contact of the public with astronomy and for promoting the scientific research of our Institute. The domes, the telescopes operating in Asiago and the presence of a multimedia room dedicated to education and outrech activities, allow to organize a rich programme for students, teachers, and visitors, with lectures, courses, visits to the Galileo telescope and also to Copernico telescope of Cima Ekar, and sky observations.

Palazzo Sturm, dal cui belvedere si può godere di un’impareggiabile panorama sul fiume Brenta e sul Ponte Vecchio, fu donato al Comune di Bassano dal barone Giovanni Battista Sturm von Hirschfeld nel 1943. La preziosa dimora voluta da Vincenzo Ferrari, importante industriale e commerciate di sete, venne edificata verso la metà del XVIII secolo. L’edificio conta oltre settanta stanze distribuite su sette livelli e decorate dal pittore veronese Giorgio Anselmi nel 1760 circa. I soggetti mitologici e allegorici, rappresentati con un gusto che richiama la maniera dei cosiddetti trionfi barocchi romano-bolognesi, alludono alle imprese commerciali ed economiche della manifattura della famiglia Ferrari. Attualmente il palazzo ospita il Museo della Ceramica Giuseppe Roi, che raccoglie collezioni di ceramiche antiche, il Museo della Stampa Remondini, dedicato alla tipografia e calcografia della celebre famiglia di imprenditori grafici.