The museum was founded in 1966 with the aim of collecting and preserving evidence of the artistic heritage of the parish of Scaria and other places in the Intelvi Valley.
Representative works of the centuries-old emigration of Intelvese workers to Italian and Central European centers are on display.
The museum reopened in 2015 with a renovated exhibition venue that makes the most of the original collection. Arranged within thematic spaces, you can admire works of particular value such as the "Antelamic" cross, a jewel of Lombard goldsmithing and the valuable wooden statuettes of Ercole Ferrata. The collection is completed by the drawings and paintings of the brothers Diego, Francesco and Carlo Innocenzo Carloni as well as some sixteenth-century frescoes from the Casa De Allio in Scaria and the Church of Santa Maria.
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Specific type: parish house/museum
Structural configuration: The building is next to the church of S. Maria; the plan is articulated, distributed over three floors. The PT houses the museum; on the first floor there are the rooms for oratory activities, the parish archive and the sacristy; on the second floor there is the parish priest's house.
The perimeter wall structures are in reinforced concrete with exposed Moltrasio stone cladding on the ground floor elevations. The internal space is punctuated by reinforced concrete pillars, perforated brick walls and brick-cement floors. The three floors are connected by two staircases with two flights with a reinforced concrete structure, treads covered in Botticino and risers in gray Bardiglio; the floors are in seminato with large white marble chips for the atrium of the 1st and 2nd floors, in square terrazzo tiles and, in the museum, in large seminato tiles. The roof is made up of reinforced concrete beams resting on the load-bearing walls, primary framework in wooden beams, joists and covering in black cement tiles. Author: Clerici Pietro, project Current use: entire property: parish house/oratory/museum Historical use: entire property: parish house/oratory/museum Legal status: ownership Ecclesiastical body
OPENING TIME
April – October 2022:
Friday 9.30 – 12.00
Saturday: 3pm – 6pm
Sunday: 10.30am – 12.00pm and 3.00pm – 6.00pm
Groups and schools: also other days by reservation
November 2022 – March 2023:
on reservation
INFO AND RESERVATIONS:
338/5491205 – Don Claudio
333/8295410 – Celi Piffaretti
031/840241 – Parish of Scaria
