Museums of the Sartirana Arte Foundation
The suggestive Sartirana Castle, the largest in Lomellina for its size, is the seat of the Sartirana Arte Foundation, which has set up several permanent collections there.
The Museo per gli Argenti Contemporanei (MAC) includes 300 pieces made from 1970 to the present day on projects by important Italian designers.
Also worthy of note is the Museum for Contemporary Goldsmithery (MOC) with about one hundred pieces of jewellery created by Italian craftsmen from various areas (Lomellini, Valencian, Florentine, Pesaro, etc.).
The Museum for Textile Arts (MAT) contains exhibits of regional textile art, objects of European and non-European origin and an exhibition of Anatolian carpets granted in temporary storage.
The Museum for Graphic Art (MAG) exhibits engravings, lithographs and serigraphs of Italian artists from 1950 to the present day, granted by the archives of the Stamperia 2RC in Rome.
The Contemporary Art section houses collections by artists such as Fausto Melotti, Emilio Vedova, Alberto Ghinzani, Mauro Staccioli and others.
The Museum for Architecture, Decorative Arts and Design exhibits collections of Murano glass by contemporary artists, ceramics, furniture and furnishings.
Also worth mentioning is the Museum for Photography, with works by Mulas, Gastel, Cristiani, Reitano, and the Historical Sports Museum with works by Ottorino Mancioli.
A considerable importance has been given to the Fashion Museum whose collections are composed of clothes by prestigious Italian designers created from 1950 to the present day.
In the premises of the Pila del Castello is set up the Ethnographic Museum in which are collected tools typical of the rural world between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries.
