APE Parma Museo is the innovative cultural and museum center conceived and built by the Monteparma Foundation. Always deeply committed to the enhancement of the arts and culture, both through direct projects and through the support of local bodies and associations, the Foundation has chosen to acquire and restore a prestigious building that has been closed for some time, located in the heart of the historic center of Parma, to return it to the city as a fundamental piece of its cultural life. Opened in June 2018, APE Parma Museum is a place capable of promoting and welcoming different artistic expressions and various knowledge, through initiatives ranging from art exhibitions to concerts, from theatrical performances to conferences, from conferences to book presentations. Hence the name APE, acrostic of "Arts", "Performance" and "Events", which summarizes and embraces in three letters the desire to propose an all-round cultural program, able to meet and stimulate the interest of the most different. But APE also refers to a multiplicity of meanings: from the industriousness, organization and dynamism of the insect of the same name to the creative inspiration recalled by flight, up to the very origin of the banking foundations from the Monti di Pietà and credit institutions, with the beehive to symbolize savings.