The museum was created inside the Palazzo Sanseverino, an imposing building commissioned by Giuseppe Leopoldo Sanseverino and constructed by the engineer Stefano Vangieri of Rogliano between 1707 and 1717. It was decorated in the last thirty years of the century by the painter Donato Vitale and his followers. It was the residence of the Sanseverino family until 1726 and later of the son until the end of his days. The palace fell into abandonment around 1806. At the end of the same century, by then decadent, it was purchased by the Falcone and Zanfoni families. The municipality of Acri acquired it in the second half of the 20th century, beginning restoration in 1986 and delivering it to the citizens in 2000. Since 2006, the building has permanently housed the Vigliaturo collection alongside a spontaneous exhibition by the same artist showcasing his most recent works and experiments. The building is divided into a ground floor and three raised floors totaling 3,000 square meters of exhibition space. It is surrounded by a garden and contains a large courtyard inside. On the ground floor is the Hall of Columns. Numerous doubts about the construction of these columns so far have prevented dating them: the colonnade, certainly predating the construction of the palace, has nothing to do with the structure of the building. In the same room, another mystery is represented by a fresco containing various symbols that have prevented its identification; however, the depiction of the Sanseverino coat of arms is legible. Also on the ground floor is the Spontaneous Hall where Vigliaturo’s recent works are exhibited.
Information about MACA – Museum of Contemporary Art Acri
Piazza Falcone, 1
Acri (Cosenza)
0984.953309 / 011.9422568
info@museomaca.it
https://www.museomaca.it
Source: MIBACT
