Rende - Museums

Museums

In Vitari building finds space centre for art and culture dedicated to Achille Capizzano, the exhibitions and conferences about local and international and MAON Museum.

While the Museum of Folklore, in the Zagarese palace, made with the advice of R. Lombardi Satriani is essentially dedicated to the territory of Calabria Citeriore that roughly corresponds to the province of Cosenza. The collection of about three thousand items illustrates the culture of these territories. The path to the museum, which is housed in the historic centre, is on nine rooms.

• Room I: The concept of folklore (summary historic). Ethnic minorities: Italo-Albanesi and Gypsies.
• Room II: The folk architecture: the house.
• Room III: The interior lighting systems and sources of heat. Water supply.
• Room IV: Interiors: cooking and food.
• Room V: The clothing: murals.
• Room VI: The domestic activities: spinning, weaving, embroidery. The business: agriculture and pastoralism.
• Room VII: The handicrafts: jewellery.
• Room VIII: religious life. Social life. The instruments of popular music.
• Room IX: Emigration: Calabresi in Canada.
• The top floor has established a magnificent and interesting gallery entitled to Achille Capizzano works with the same, Mattia Preti, and many other Italian artists.

Museum of the present: The Museum of the Present located in the modern city; eight exhibition halls are developed on an area of 2500 square metres. The museum houses exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, photographic exhibitions, cinema, conferences and book presentations. The rooms are on two levels:

• Ground floor, the Tokyo hall and an internet cafe;
• Upstairs, the 'Laboratory of thoughts' and the 'Belvedere of the arts and sciences'.