Museo Civico (Cuneo)

Museums

Category: History and archaeology

This museum was set up in the former convent of the Frati di S. Francesco (St. Francis Brothers), having a Romanesque-Gothic church from the 1400s and a cloister from the 1500s. The museum tour breaks down into three sections: archaeological, artistic and ethnographic. The first present prehistorical, pre-Roman and mean evil materials from all over the Cuneo province. The arts section accommodates a remarkable fresco from the 1300s depicting the Madonna with Child and other paintings from the 1600s to the 1900s. The section dedicated to folklore and popular art presents the costumes typical of the Alpine valleys, objects commonly used and locally crafted furniture, 19th-century signs, equipment for farming and weaving and a unique collection of Lenci dolls made in the 1930s.

Information

Via Santa Maria, 10 - 12100 Cuneo (Cn)
Tel. +39.0171.634175 - Fax: +39.0171.66137
E-mail: museo@comune.cuneo.it
www.comune.cuneo.it