Museo degli Argenti Contemporanei (MAC); Museo degli Ornamenti Contemporanei (MOC); Museo per le Arti Tessili (MAT); Museo per la Grafica d’Arte (MAG); Museo per le Arti Decorative e il Design (MADD); Museo della Moda (MU-MO), Sartirana Lomellina

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

Of great value are the collections that can be admired in the MAC (Museum for Contemporary Silver), consisting of about 300 pieces designed by famous designers from 1970 to today.

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

The MAT (Museum for Textile Arts) fascinates with the display of numerous Anatolian kilims that Dario Valcarenghi has temporarily deposited at the Foundation. In the MAT, you can also admire items related to regional Italian textile art (Sardinia, Sicily, Abruzzo, Marche) coming from a private collection. There are about 60/70 pieces (rugs, embroideries, fabrics) of European, African, Pre-Columbian, Asian origin, etc., created between the 1600s and the beginning of the century.

Of great interest is the MAG (Museum for Graphic Art), where engravings, lithographs, and screen prints by various authors (Afro, Burri, Sutherland, Melotti, Pomodoro, etc.) are exhibited, made available by the archive of the 2RC print shop in Rome.

An “Archive Museum of 20th Century Italian Sculpture” has also been established, which gathers graphic and design materials, bibliographic and documentary material, plaster casts, models, drawings, and finished works.

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

Interesting for the originality of contents are: the “Historical Sports Museum,” an exhibition venue for 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 Strength and Courage Association of Milan; the MADD (Museum of Decorative Arts and Design), a permanent collection being arranged also thanks to 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 collects moquettes and preparatory plasters for the final castings of the greatest Italian sculptors of the twentieth century.

The Sartirana Arte Foundation, which operates actively within the Castle as a center of cultural documentation, plans a further expansion of the various collections and the setup of new museum sections.

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

The economy of Sartirana in recent years has focused on high-level goldsmith craftsmanship: numerous goldsmith workshops directly offer their products to the public.