Art, Design, and Multimediality come together at Fondazione Plart Napoli, a center of excellence that since 2008 has looked to design innovation as the key to creating and disseminating unique cultural experiences. Through a multidisciplinary approach, Fondazione Plart Napoli tells the complexity of our present, always with an eye towards exploring the future. Its spaces host an interactive hub where the most diverse forms of creativity converge, thanks to the involvement of an eclectic group of professionals from Italy and around the world.

Fondazione Plart Napoli functions as a dynamic forge, moving between international attention towards new expressions of experimental design and research work on non-polluting materials and issues of conservation, restoration, and increasingly sustainability, thus representing a hub for sustainable creativity. In its two locations, in Naples and soon also in Turin, one of the most original permanent collections of historical plastics in the world is exhibited, accompanied by a rich program of exhibitions, immersive multimedia installations, performances, workshops, laboratories, and educational projects, all developed in the name of innovation and the desire to amaze.

Plart is a multifunctional space dedicated to scientific research and technological innovation for the recovery, restoration, and conservation of artworks and design pieces made of plastic materials. Plart houses a research center, an events area, a space for training, and the permanent exhibition of objects from one of the most well-known collections of historical plastics.

The collection - built over 30 years through the patient research work of Maria Pia Incutti and under the curatorship of architect Nunzio Vitale - represents an important reference point in the world of plastics. The collection narrates the history of plastic and along with it, the evolution of society's customs and uses, from the late nineteenth century to the seventies, highlighting the heterogeneity and versatility of this eclectic family of materials: from bakelite to celluloid, from resin to polyurethane.

It is a museum collection of over 1500 pieces consisting of objects of anonymous design - pens, dolls, boxes, lamps - and works by contemporary designers and artists such as Piero Gilardi, Gaetano Pesce, Franco Mello, Guido Drocco, Tony Cragg, and many others. The collection was dedicated in 1990 to the historic exhibition In Plastica at the Museo Pignatelli Cortes in Naples. In 1991, it was exhibited at the Grand Palais in Paris, at the VIII design exhibition in Saint Etienne, and in 2002 - promoted and organized by the Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation - in São Paulo, Brazil.