MAGI '900

MAGI'900 was born from a passion and a particular vision of art that Giulio Bargellini, founder of the museum, has always wanted to share with visitors. Conceived as a place for events, relationships, conservation, contemplation and understanding of art as a complex and compelling phenomenon, the museum has pursued these objectives since 2000, the year of its opening, proposing itself as a large space open to confrontation and change. . The articulated activity of MAGI'900, in fact, thanks to the variety of collections and the breadth of the spaces, makes it possible to combine exhibitions - permanent and temporary - with different types of events, involving artists, collectors, critics, public, students to propose opportunities for knowledge, reflection, meetings. The museum, housed in an old grain silo from 1933 saved from demolition, has always continued to renew itself, in the physical spaces and in the acquisitions and fields of activity. At first as a Museum of Art of the Italian Generations of the 1900s, then, from 2005 with the second extension and with the new name MAGI'900, the art museum has expanded its interests in an increasingly international and updated projection on cultural emergencies of close contemporaneity. With the latest expansion in 2015, the museum completed its spaces, almost entirely exhibiting its collection of thousands of works of art in three closely connected buildings for an exhibition area of over nine thousand square meters. The current staging of the permanent collection is dedicated to some of the protagonists and movements of art and visual culture between the 20th and 21st centuries . the trends, the problems of contemporary thought are investigated through small and large works.