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Museum of "Buonconsiglio Castle. Provincial monuments and collections"


The Museum is located in various centres in the province and include Stenico Castle in th Giudicarie, Beseno Castle, near Rovereto and Castel Thun in Val di Non.

Buonconsiglio Castle preserves many fine collections, the first of which was formed in the mid-19th century in the Civic Museum of Trento (1853). Since they were moved to the castle in the 1920s, when the National Museum was formed (1924), these collections have continued to grow. The medieval and modern art collections are manuscripts, among which the famous 15th century music codices and the collection of the musicologist Laurence Feininger, a purple evangelistary (5thC) and the Gragorian Sacramentary (9thC). The Museum preserves a large collection of paintings, sculptures from Carolingian period to Rococo, furnishings, detached frescoes, majolica tiles, cinaware, prints and drawings. Besides the numismatic collection, the archeological sections is also very important and includes relics of special interest. Among these are materials and wood from the Bronze Age, objects from the Iron Age and Roman and Longobard times. The collection of Egyptian and Far Eastern art is also very important. In Stenico Castle, the so-called Casa Vecchia rooms are furnished with furnitures, paintings, steel weapons or fire-arms, as well as old domestic utensils dating from 16thC to 19thC.

The permanent collections include paintings and scultures from Romanticism to modern times, with particular reference to 20thC and Futurism art.

The museum is located in tree centers:

Trento. Palazzo delle Albere. Summer residence of the Prince Bishops built for the Madruzzo Family in the mid-16th century. Largely frescoed with valuable mural cycles by Marcello Fogolino. Restored in the 1970s.

Rovereto. Fortunato Depero Museum. Founded in 1957 by Roveretan artist, it occupies a house in the medieval historic cente and contains important works by Fortunato Depero.

Rovereto. Archives of the 1900s. Roveretan section specialised in the field of historic-artistic research. Modern exhibition area containing futurist works of Trentino public collections and various 20thC private donations.

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Tridentine Museum of Natural Sciences


The museum is housed in Palazzo Sardagna (Trento). This building is enhanced by the museum's displays producing a pleasent effect that accompanies the visitors through the 21 show rooms where the most typical subjects of trentino's natural landscape are exhibited. The Museum collects and arranges natural history material of mainly alpine interest. The displays describe the most significant mineralogic/paleontological finds in the area and its geological history, with special attention for the Dolomite area and the surroundings of the town of Trento.

Museo Storico in Trento



The Museum is located in Buonconsiglio Castle (Trento). The social, political and economic history of trentino from the end of the 18th century to the second postwar period is illustrated in the showroom in the new centre. Domuments,relics and some important works of art by Trentino Artists are on display.

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"Gianni Caproni" Air Museum (Mattarello, Trento)


The exhibition hall contain 20 planes, built between 1910 and 1980. Nine of them are the only ones in the world. Among the most important pieces exhibited: Guglielmo Marconi's radio which he used for the first communications by air balloons and airships. The rib of Wright's plane that flew to Rome in 1909, E. Forlanini's firts aviation engine built in 1887.

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