Museum of Contemporary Silver (MAC); Museum of Contemporary Ornaments (MOC); Museum of Textile Arts (MAT); Museum of Graphic Arts (MAG); Museum of Decorative Arts and Design (MADD); Fashion Museum (MU-MO), Sartirana Lomellina

The Sartirana castle is currently home to the Sartirana Arte Foundation, which has arranged some interesting permanent collections in its rooms.

Of great value are the collections on display at the MAC (Museum of Contemporary Silver), consisting of about 300 pieces designed by famous designers from 1970 to today.

In the MOC (Museum of Contemporary Jewelry) there are about 100 artist-made jewels created by craftsmen from Lomellina, Valenza, Florence, Pesaro, Rome, Milan, Lodi, etc.

The MAT (Museum of Textile Arts) fascinates with the exhibition of numerous Anatolian kilims temporarily deposited by Dario Valcarenghi with the Foundation. The MAT also showcases artifacts related to regional Italian textile art (Sardinia, Sicily, Abruzzo, Marche) from a private collection. There are about 60/70 pieces (carpets, embroideries, fabrics) of European, African, Pre-Columbian, Asian origin, etc., created between the 1600s and the early twentieth century.

The MAG (Museum of Graphic Arts) is of great interest, exhibiting engravings, lithographs, and serigraphs by various authors (Afro, Burri, Sutherland, Melotti, Pomodoro, etc.) made available by the 2RC printing archive in Rome.

An “Archive Museum of Twentieth-Century Italian Sculpture” has also been established, collecting graphic and design materials, bibliographic and documentary materials, plaster casts, models, drawings, and finished works.

The “Ethnographic Museum of Lomellina” displays objects of rural material culture related to rice, milk and cheese, grapes and wine, and life in the Lomellina countryside (from the 17th to the 20th century) deriving from the “Alberizzi Collection” of Certosa.

Of interest for the originality of their content are: the “Historical Sports Museum,” an exhibition venue hosting initiatives organized in collaboration with the Sports Museum Association of Genoa and the Mountain Museum of Turin (for skiing and other disciplines) and with the Forza e Coraggio Association of Milan; the MADD (Museum of Decorative Arts and Design), a permanent collection being developed also through collaboration with the Triennale of Milan and the Archive of Applied Arts in Rome; the “Gipsoteca,” a specific section of the Archive Museum of Italian Sculpture, which gathers carpets and plaster preparatory works for the final castings by the greatest Italian sculptors of the twentieth century.

The Sartirana Arte Foundation actively operates within the Castle as a center of cultural documentation and plans to further expand the collections and set up new museum sections.

The Sartirana castle is also currently the venue for the annual Art and Antiques exhibition.

In recent years, Sartirana’s economy has focused on high-level goldsmith craftsmanship: numerous jewelry workshops directly offer their products to the public.”