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 Silverware), consisting of about 300 pieces designed by famous designers from 1970 to the present day.

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

The MAT (Museum for Textile Arts) fascinates with the exhibition of numerous Anatolian kilims that Dario Valcarenghi has temporarily deposited with the Foundation. At the MAT, visitors can also admire 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 century.

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

An “Archive Museum of 20th Century Italian Sculpture” has also been established, collecting graphic and design material, bibliographic and documentary items, 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, rural life in Lomellina (from the 17th to the 20th century) coming from the “Alberizzi Collection” of Certosa.

Interesting for the originality of the contents: 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 set up also thanks to collaboration with the Triennale of Milan and the Archive of Applied Arts of Rome; the “Gipsoteca,” a specific section of the Archive Museum of Italian Sculpture, which collects preparatory plaster casts and molds for the definitive fusions of the greatest Italian sculptors of the twentieth century.

The Sartirana Arte Foundation, which actively operates within the Castle as a cultural documentation center, plans a further expansion of the various collections and the setting up 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.”