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6 Specialty Museums in Mendrisiotto That You Shouldn't Miss
Discover the best top things to do in Mendrisiotto, Switzerland including Museo Vincenzo Vela, Galleria Baumgartner, Fossil Museum of Monte San Giorgio, Museo Del Caffe, Museo Della Civilta Contadina, Il Mulino di Bruzella - Ethnographic Museum of the Muggio Valley.
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1. Museo Vincenzo Vela
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4.5 based on 30 reviews
The Vincenzo Vela Museum is one of the most important artists' house-museums to have been erected in nineteenth-century Europe. Conceived by the great realist sculptor Vincenzo Vela from Ticino (1820-91) at the height of his career, and transformed into a public museum after it was donated to the Swiss state, in addition to Vincenzo Vela's gallery of monumental plaster casts it includes the bequests of the sculptor Lorenzo Vela (1812-97) and painter Spartaco Vela (1854-95), a remarkable collection of nineteenth-century Lombard and Piedmontese paintings, hundreds of autograph drawings and one of the earliest private collections of photographs in Switzerland.
2. Galleria Baumgartner
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4.5 based on 70 reviews
3. Fossil Museum of Monte San Giorgio
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4.5 based on 54 reviews
Remodeled and expanded by the Ticinese architect Mario Botta, the Museum of fossils from Monte San Giorgio was inaugurated the 13th of october of 2012. The structure exhibits a selection of fossilized animals and plants from the unique UNESCO World Heritage Site of Monte San Giorgio.
Reviewed By chibakun - Cologne, Germany
This museum is one of the rarest and most important collection of fossils in the world from this period - some perfectly conserved examples being from 5 million years before the dinosaurs we know of normally. Very well organized and set in a beautiful scenery as well.
4. Museo Del Caffe
5. Museo Della Civilta Contadina
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4.5 based on 9 reviews
Aperture fuori orario e visite guidate su prenotazione. Chiusura estiva dal 1° luglio al 15 agosto compresi. Chiusura invernale dal 24 dicembre al 7 gennaio.
