Category Archives: Exhibition

Ancient origin of Casaforte Acaja, Madama Palace

In the basement of Madama Palace, at the level of the Roman foundations, there is the Medieval Lapidary, with stone sculptures and goldsmiths. Located in the heart of Turin, in what was to be the Roman Quadrilateral castrum, the complex stands on what, at the time of the ancient Roman…

Ancient origin of Casaforte Acaja, Madama Palace

Gothic and Renaissance Collection, Madama Palace

On the ground floor, characterized by fifteenth-century rooms, there are paintings, sculptures, miniatures and precious objects from the Gothic-Renaissance period. In the room of the Torre Tesori , one of the fifteenth-century towers of the old castle, you will find some of the most important pieces of this period such…

Gothic and Renaissance Collection, Madama Palace

The Ceramics and Majolica Collection, Madama Palace

The exhibition Italy of the ceramics and majolica, presents an exceptional set of ceramics and majolica produced by the most prestigious Italian manufactures, bringing together the masterpieces from private collections of Palazzo Madama. The exhibition opens in the Camera delle Guardie with a large showcase, which evokes the protagonist furniture…

The Ceramics and Majolica Collection, Madama Palace

The Lace and Fabrics Collection, Madama Palace

The lace and fabrics exhibition features 95 important pieces from the museum’s rich collection of laces: over 450 artifacts including numerous clothing accessories, fans, aprons, headphones, handkerchiefs, collars. With precious Renaissance patterns, the fashionable gros points of Venice, the very light borders and barbes of the Flemish eighteenth century, the…

The Lace and Fabrics Collection, Madama Palace

Glass chamber, Madama Palace

The “Camera di vetro”, the new room for the decorative arts on the second floor of the Toriense museum in Palazzo Madama, entirely designed and built with the contribution of Rotary Club Torino. The room is the result of a careful study of the design and rearrangement of the “Glass…

Glass chamber, Madama Palace

Carlo Magno goes to War, Madama Palace

The exhibition Charlemagne goes to war, set up in the Medieval Court of Palazzo Madama, presents for the first time in Italy the extremely rare cycle of medieval paintings of the Castle of Cruet (Val d’Isère, France), a unique testimony of 14th century painting in Savoy. The cycle represents episodes…

Carlo Magno goes to War, Madama Palace

Islamic art gallery, Oriental Art Museum in Turin

The fourth floor with the strictly green room dedicated to Islamic art. The environment, characterized by the trussed ceiling of the historic building, appears as a large corridor flanked by the exhibition furniture which houses Ottoman velvets, ceramics, bronzes as well as rare Persian manuscripts and calligraphic copies of the…

Islamic art gallery, Oriental Art Museum in Turin

South Asia and Southeast Asia gallery, Oriental Art Museum in Turin

The South Asia gallery houses collections from three major cultural geographic areas: Gandhara, India and Indochina. Gandhara This collection includes artifacts from the Buddhist-inspired artistic production of Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan, from the 2nd century BC to the 5th century. Gandhara is the geographical term for an area between Afghanistan…

South Asia and Southeast Asia gallery, Oriental Art Museum in Turin

Himalayan gallery, Oriental Art Museum in Turin

On the third floor is the Himalayan Gallery which houses precious and rare specimens of Tibetan thang-ka and bronze sculptures; worthy of note is the part dedicated to the display of manuscripts with precious wooden covers. In this suggestive collection you can grasp the mystical side of Buddhism, which involves…

Himalayan gallery, Oriental Art Museum in Turin

Chinese gallery, Oriental Art Museum in Turin

The Chinese gallery now houses works of art from ancient China, dating from 3000 BC to c.900 BC, with Neolithic ceramics, sacred bronzes, and lacquered and terracotta ware that include over two hundred examples of burial art works from the Han and Tang periods. In the Chinese collection it can…

Chinese gallery, Oriental Art Museum in Turin

Japanese Gallery, Oriental Art Museum in Turin

The Japanese Gallery, on first and second floor. Buddha statues from the 9th to the 18th Century A.D. and objects from the 18th Century to the 20th, where you can admire large painted screens and a series of lacquered and gilded wooden sculptures. The rooms dedicated to Japan contain wooden…

Japanese Gallery, Oriental Art Museum in Turin

Infinity, Speed, Ethics, Nature, Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin

The Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin (GAM ), in celebrate the civic collection celebrates 150 years since its establishment, proposes four new themes for a different reinterpretation of its masterpieces: the third appointment of a journey, when the museum completely renewed the layout of its permanent…

Infinity, Speed, Ethics, Nature, Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin

Renoir. From the Musée d’Orsay and Orangerie Collections, Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin

The City of Turin, the GAM – Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin and Skira publisher present a splendid exhibition dedicated to the great French artist, with masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay and Musée de l’Orangerie collections in Paris. The collaboration strongly desired by the Mayor, Piero…

Renoir. From the Musée d’Orsay and Orangerie Collections, Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin

The 19th century collections. Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin

Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin presents itself to the public in a “new guise” through the innovative rearrangement of its permanent collections. The GAM of Turin organize an “impossible” guided tour of the museum’s nineteenth-century collections. The GAM collection with a structural intervention on the building,…

The 19th century collections. Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin

Renato Guttuso: Revolutionary art on the 50th anniversary of 1968. Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin

The Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin dedicates an important and focused exhibition to the painting of Renato Guttuso (Bagheria, Palermo 1911 – Rome 1987), a prominent personality in the history of 20th century Italian art and a key figure in the debate on the relationship between…

Renato Guttuso: Revolutionary art on the 50th anniversary of 1968. Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin

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