La Galleria BPER Banca was established in 2017, with the stated goal of studying, enhancing, and making accessible to the public the rich cultural, collectionist, and archival heritage owned by the bank. The first exhibition space open to the public was the Pinacoteca di Modena, where it has been possible to organize, to date, fourteen thematic exhibitions focused on the main masterpieces and areas of the collection.

Each exhibition is accompanied by the publication of catalogs and study notebooks accompanied by descriptive texts and artwork sheets, created with art historians, curators, and exhibition curators. The collection of paintings by BPER Banca is indeed strongly characterized by territorial historical-artistic nuclei, which complement the main corpus represented by works from the Emilian and Romagnolo areas from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, originally formed in Banca Popolare di Modena. Also fundamental, in the overall definition of the cultural heritage of BPER Banca, is what is represented by the Historical Archive, recently reorganized in new spaces open to use by scholars, a vast documentary collection that bears witness to the history of over 150 years of the territory and its profound social transformations.

La Galleria BPER Banca therefore aims to offer itself as a continuously proactive cultural hub, open to new generations, accessible and inclusive, for a future that is concretely sustainable also thanks to education in culture in all its forms and expressions.