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What to Do and See in Savona
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Asger Jorn House Museum
Albissola Marina
In 1957 the Danish artist Asger Jorn bought two buildings and some land on the hill of Albissola Marina, in the Bruciati area. Jorn transformed this place into a marvelous space, whose organic and harmonious unity of works of art, nature and architecture make it today a work of art unique in its kind. Before dying, Asger Jorn donated to the town of Albissola Marina the garden house and the works of art it contained, to be used as a museum. Jorn conceived art and architecture as an organic whole of space, shapes, spontaneous colors, free and vibrant, capable of improving the lives of people and the community. Jorn created spontaneous architecture for himself and his family, in which painting, sculpture, applied and decorative arts merged, creating a continuum with the shapes and colors of nature. This is why every part of the walls, floors and buildings contains traces of artistic interventions, often made with recycled materials and objects: glass, marble, furnace waste, tiles, river rocks, shells, antique vases and , of course, dishes and sculptures by Jorn and his friends.
Lungomare degli Artisti
Albissola Marina
Inaugurated on 10 August 1963, the event represented the culmination of a season that, since the '30s with Futurism, saw Albisola in the center of a dense network of international artistic exchanges. In such a context it was decided to create a new promenade made of walkable mosaics. Between 1962 and 1963 twenty protagonists of Ligurian, Italian and international contemporary art donated twenty drawings to the Municipality of Albissola Marina, to be used to create large floor mosaics on the seafront, which from that moment was named after all the artists who worked or would work in Albisola. In 1999-2000 the mosaics were replaced by copies made with materials and technical devices to increase their resistance. In 2005 the Lungomare degli Artisti was extended with four new mosaics.
Today the Lungomare degli Artisti runs for one kilometer along the coastline of Albissola Marina. It is a unique example of an urban collective work of art, designed to be trod on in an everyday and original dimension of the use of public art. Walking on these colorful mosaics, you will encounter other important works of art.
Ernan Design
Albissola Marina Studio
Ernan Design was established in 1974 in the premises of the factory "Ceramiche Minime Fratelli Pacetti", founded by Ivos and Renato Pacetti in 1954. It is now the oldest ceramics factory in Albisola Superiore. It is a two-storied factory with a surface of 1500 square metres. It offers a wide range of products: from objects and decorations typical of the Ligurian tradition to supplies ordered by artists, designers, architects. Since the first years many Italian and foreign artists have frequently stayed in its residence. The garden-museum is the real evidence of these relationships. Among the artists that attended the factory let's remember: El Anatsui, Roberto Bertagnin, Plamen Dejanoff, Wang Du, Gillo Dorfles, Agenore Fabbri, Lucio Fontana, Franco Garelli, Giorgio Laveri, Bertrand Lavier, Emanuele Luzzati, Jonathan Meese, Patrick Moya, Gaston Orellana, Mario Rossello, Emilio Scanavino, Juli Susin. The initial production of tableware and interior decorations of the Fifties, improved by the economic recovery and really innovative for Albisola, in the last decades has been slowly decreased in typologies and in offers, because of the changes of market and of customers' tastes.
The Genoa Aquarium
The largest Italian aquarium, first in Europe for animal species, third in Europe by surface, after Moscow and Valencia. It is located in the sixteenth century ancient port of Genoa. Opened in 1992 on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America. The design of the structure and the neighboring area is by architect Renzo Piano, the interiors by architect Peter Chermayeff. From its opening to 2014 it was visited by over 25 million visitors, with an average of 1.2 million a year.
Chiossone Museum of Genoa
The museum houses Japanese works from various eras: painting (from the eleventh to the nineteenth century), weapons and armors, enamels, ceramics, lacquers, porcelains, polychrome prints, musical instruments, theatrical masks, costumes and fabrics, bronzes and a rich collection of great sculptures of Japan, China and Siam.
Art Gallery of Savona
The Pinacoteca leads the visitor along a path from the late Middle Ages to the masters of the twentieth century. Among the jewels of the civic collections, the Crucifixion of Donato de 'Bardi, a masterpiece of Renaissance painting, and the impressive polyptychs that document the artistic flowering of the city between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, thanks to the patronage of the two Savonese popes, Sixtus IV and Julius II . The works collected by the Savona writer Milena Milani and by the gallerist Carlo Cardazzo close the itinerary: a selection of the most important examples of international contemporary art, which includes among others Picasso, Mirò, Magritte, De Chirico, Fontana.
All About Apple Museum . Savona
Born on 11 May 2002, it is currently the most well-stocked Apple museum in the world containing practically almost all the production of personal computers, peripherals, accessories, Apple prototypes from the dawn of 1976 up to the present day. The machines exhibited tell about the birth, the evolution, the transformation of the information technology introduced by Apple, with the special feature that the visitor can use the exhibited pieces, turn them on and use them: the only case in the whole world in a museum of this kind.
Museum of the Glass of Altare
The culture of glass in Altare has very ancient roots: the first furnaces for glass processing date back to the 11th century. In 1856, the glassmakers decided to found the Società Artistico - Vetraria, the first cooperative in Italy. The Vetraria Artistic Society had different production lines: mainly the production of glass for the home and daily life, and glass for the chemical-pharmaceutical industry, as well as artistic objects created by the masters out of the ordinary production. Inside the glass factory a business museum has been also organized, in which the most important objects have been kept, such as those presented in various exhibitions and national and international competitions. In 1978, the company museum was purchased by the Municipality of Altare and formed the first nucleus of the current museum collection. Today the Museum offers its visitors a review of works ranging from 1700 to the present day, as well as tools for craftsmanship, supported by new multimedia tools to illustrate all the stages of glass processing.
Verallia factory in Dego
The following are the basic rules to guarantee the safety of visitors:
-Wear closed-toed footwear, with rubber soles (flats, no heels) and pants (no bermudas, no skirts), covered ankles
-Wear the earplugs and goggles provided
-Keep close to your guide -Remain in your group and keep away from machinery
-Do not touch anything ( machinery, bottles...)
-Do not smoke It is prohibited to bring alcohol to the premises, to eat or drink in the production area, to take pictures or to film. -To keep the plant clean, we ask visitors not to throw anything on the floor.
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