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Remondini Museum
LC2A
studio
LC2A
studio
Where we are:
Via Sterni, 3/5 , Bassano del Grappa, Vicenza, Italy
Contacts:
+39 348 4295569
Opening hours:
Monday - Friday 9:00 - 19:00
Closed on Saturday and Sunday
lc2astudioarch@libero.it
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Description
YEAR
2010
LOCATION
Bassano del Grappa (VI)
TYPE OF SERVICE
preliminary, final, executive project, works management, new museum set-up
SIZE
n.c.
COST
n.c.
The project involves the internal renovation of the building known as Palazzo Sturm, including the design of a new internal circulation system, access points, and exhibition layouts.
The main theme of the exhibition is that of the journey, which underlies the entire route and is presented through a chronological narrative intertwining the history of the family with the materials they produced, tracing a 200-year historical path through the history of humankind, the book, and European visual culture between the mid-seventeenth and mid-eighteenth centuries.
The exhibition design deliberately distances itself from the historic features of the palace—wooden furnishings and stucco decorations—becoming a modern, essential architectural language. The need to avoid natural light for conservation reasons leads to atmospheric and effect-based lighting choices: metal halide lamps for general illumination and optical fibers for focused highlights.
Preliminary to the exhibition design is the organizational decision to place a temporary exhibition section alongside the permanent one, with two exhibitions per year. This requirement arises from the need to limit light exposure of the materials while allowing continuous rotation, thus stimulating the interest of regular visitors.
The temporary exhibition section offers two modes of viewing: a direct one, with works displayed on tables, and an indirect one, where visitors can open large drawers and visually select the engravings that most capture their interest.
Through an educational section and a space dedicated to computer stations, visitors enter the permanent exhibition, introduced by the silhouettes of the Tesini, created from a drawing by Emanuele Luzzatti. The theme of the journey finds immediate visual expression in a large map of Europe indicating the distribution centers of Remondini books and engraved sheets.
The second room is dedicated to the history of the Remondini family, engraving, and printing. Paintings, documents, sculptures, and registers introduce the protagonists’ stories, while multimedia supports and fixed educational installations complement the information provided by the works and documents.
The following Treasure Room displays major masterpieces of production, from Il gatto domestico to Il cane Barbino and Il mondo alla rovescia, as well as the most prestigious sheets in the collection, from Mantegna to Tiepolo. The juxtaposition of woodblocks and plates with the finished prints allows visitors to immediately grasp the technical aspects of engraving and woodcut printing.
The large corner room, richly decorated with stucco, offers a varied overview of the different themes addressed in production: cut-out sheets for boxes, furniture, and trays; games, fans, calling cards, playing cards, optical views, and sacred images.
The tenth room of the route exhibits the world’s largest collection of wallpaper, together with the corresponding woodblocks.
The final exhibition space is dedicated to book production.
Particular care is devoted to the museum’s educational component, addressing all themes related to the knowledge of the printing workshop and its products through traditional displays, printed materials, and electronic and multimedia supports that accompany the visit, allowing the public to interact with the information of interest.
An introductory space is equipped with electronic programs through which visitors can request information on Remondini prints and items from the collection housed in the Bassano museum.
A museum of wonder and discovery, dedicated to the understanding of printing—a technique at the origins of world culture—offering technical and technological aspects of great interest. The teaching of these aspects is entrusted, in a dedicated space, to the museum’s educational section and, for adults, to the Bassano School of Graphic Arts.
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