The Museo Civico delle Cappuccine in Bagnacavallo is a municipal cultural institute, founded in 1976 in the spaces of the former convent of the Capuchin Clarisse Sisters of San Girolamo. The rich heritage preserved in the museum is divided into various sections: the Section of Ancient Art collects valuable artistic testimonies from the 15th to the 19th century, mostly from the local area, with works of great interest by artists such as Bartolomeo Ramenghi, Andrea Lilio, Felice Cignani, and Ferraù Fenzoni. Also fascinating is the path of the 20th Century Section, where pictorial masterpieces by Remo Brindisi, Virgilio Guidi, Ernesto Treccani, Enzo Morelli, and many others alternate with the valuable collection of sculptures Vittorio dal Borgo, which includes works by Medardo Rosso, Giacomo Manzù, Tullio Figini, and Giovanni Prini.

But the museum is now nationally known as one of the most active institutions in Italy in the field of art graphics, thanks to the intense research, documentation, and enhancement of engraving language carried out consistently in recent years. The museum's Print Room now preserves a very rich heritage, with more than 13,000 prints making it one of the most important Italian collections of contemporary engraving. On the exhibition front, in particular, the museum is pursuing an important line of investigation on the greatest international artists who have been able to express their greatness through engraving: the major exhibition on Albrecht Dürer (2019) is just the latest in a series of successful exhibition projects that have brought to the public's attention the art of Marc Chagall (2016), Francisco Goya (2017), and Max Klinger (2018). Since 2015, the Museo Civico delle Cappuccine has also been organizing the Biennale of Engraving "Giuseppe Maestri," a nationally relevant artistic event that in its first two editions involved more than a hundred contemporary artists between the cities of Bagnacavallo and Ravenna.

Also in the field of art graphics, the Museo Civico delle Cappuccine has recently launched a highly innovative project based on digital technologies: the Digital Repertoire of Contemporary Italian Engraving. This tool collects and provides informative sheets of more than 1,500 engravers and catalog sheets (with images) of almost 13,000 graphic works preserved in the Print Room. The database also provides other valuable tools for representing significant facts of engraving art in our country, such as monitoring the main artistic awards that have illustrated, and continue to illustrate, the trends of this ancient and highly expressive artistic language. The Digital Repertoire gathers information on these events, allowing not only to automatically reconstruct in the artists' sheets the memory of their presence at these important events or the awards they have received, but also to effectively reconstruct the recent history of Italian engraving and its protagonists.