A unique opportunity to get to know each other the great figures of Italian history and culture. Extended by March 31 the deadline to book a visit to one of over 100 Italian museum houses which will open the doors for the second edition of the National Days of Celebrity Homes promoted throughout Italy Weekend of April 1st and 2nd by the National Association of Memory Houses.
Due to the continued high number of applications, it was decided to extend the application deadlines by one more day. Goal of the association that puts on the net 98 house museums in 14 Italian regions, These places should be celebrated again and improve memory all around. For this reason, the invitation was addressed to all the houses of famous Italian figures, not only those belonging to the Houses of Memory.
So here is an open house weekend to discover the houses that have hosted the “big ones”. From Ugo Tognazzi to Leonardo Da Vinci, from Antonio Canova to Salvatore Quasimodo, from Luciano Pavarotti to Giuseppe Verdi, from John Keats to Pier Paolo Pasolini, via Michelangelo Buonarroti, Vittorio Alfieri, Ignazio Silone, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Tonino Guerra, Primo Conti , Giacomo Puccini, Giosuè Carducci, Giovanni Boccaccio and many others. This year to symbolically close the year 100th birthday of Ugo Tognazzi (1922-1990), the initiative sees in Gianmarco Tognazzi an exceptional ambassador, who coordinates the Casa della Memoria, Casa Vecchia in Velletri, dedicated to the great actor. In addition, the initiative has received the patronage of the Ministry of Culture and Icom Italia.
Until March 31st it is possible to book visits by connecting to Website www.casedellamemoria.it, where there is an updated list of participating properties with booking instructions. Below is the list of houses participating in the project.
Piedmont
- Alfieri Museum/Birthplace of Vittorio Alfieri – Asti
- House Museum Don Bosco – Valdocco (TO)
- Casa Cavassa – Saluzzo (CN)
- House Museum Galimberti – Cuneo
- House Pellico – Saluzzo (CN)
- Cosso Foundation – Miradolo Castle – San Secondo di Pinerolo (TO)
- Luigi Mallé Municipal Museum – Dronero (CN)
Lombardy
- Vittorio Mazzucconi Foundation – Milan
- Diotti Museum – Casalmaggiore (CR)
- Villa Bernasconi, the house that speaks – Cernobbio (CO)
- Ponchiellian Museum: House Museum of Amilcare Ponchielli – Casalbuttano, Paderno Ponchielli (CR)
Veneto
- Antonio Canova Gypsotheca Museum – Possagno (TV)
- House Museum Goffredo Parise – Ponte di Piave (TV)
- House on the Piave Goffredo Parise – Salgareda (TV)
Friuli Venezia Giulia
- House of Osiris Brovedani Museum – Trieste
- Study Center Pier Paolo Pasolini – Casarsa della Delizia (PN); Psacaropulo study – Trieste
Liguria
- Vittorio G. Rossi Museum and Camillo Sbarbaro Museum “Multimedia Remains” – Santa Marghetita Ligure (GE)
Emilia Romagna
- Leo Amici House Museum – Monte Colombo Lake (RN)
- Casa Artusi – Forlimpopoli (FC)
- Francesco Baracca Museum – Lugo (RA)
- Casa Barezzi Museum – Busseto (PR)
- House Museum Raffaele Bendandi – Faenza
- Bertozzi House – Forlimpopoli (FC)
- Palazzo Boncompagni-Bologna
- Villa Silvia Carducci – Lizzano Cesena (FC)
- Museum Library Casa Carducci Archive – Bologna
- Civic Museum of the Risorgimento – Bologna
- Casadei Museum – Savignano sul Rubicone (FC)
- Palazzo Comelli – Camugnano (BO)
- Hoopoe House – Ilario Fioravanti Studio House – Smile by Roncofreddo (FC)
- Ettore Guatelli Museum – Ozzano Taro (PR)
- House of the Almond Trees by Tonino Guerra – Pennabilli (RN)
- House Museum Olindo Guerrini – Sant’Alberto (RA)
- Luigi Illica Museum – Castell’Arquato (PC)
- Paolo Liverani House Museum – Faenza (RA)
- Marconi Museum – Sasso Marconi (BO)
- House Museum Vincenzo Monti – Alfonsine (RA)
- Casa Moretti – Cesenatico (FC)
- The Red House by Alfredo Panzini – Bellaria Igea Marina (RN)
- Casa Pascoli Museum – San Mauro Pascoli (FC)
- House Museum Luciano Pavarotti – Modena
- Renzo Savini House Museum – Bologna
- Rocca di Dozza Museum – Dozza (BO)
- Rossini House – Lugo (RA)
- Birthplace of Arturo Toscanini – Parma
- Palazzo Tozzoni – Imola (BO)
- Giulio Turci study house ‘A sparrow’s nest’ – Santacangelo di Romagna (RN)
- Birthplace of Giuseppe Verdi – Roncole Verdi, Busseto (PR)
- Civic Museum of Don Giovanni Truth – Modigliana (FC)
- ; Atelier Tullio Vitri – Bologna
Tuscany
- Piero Bargellini’s studio – Florence
- Siegfried Bartolini House Museum – Pistoia
- Giovanni Boccaccio House Museum – Certaldo Alto (FI)
- Museum of the Ivan Bruschi Antique House – Arezzo
- Birthplace Museum of Michelangelo Buonarroti – Caprese Michelangelo (AR)
- Foundation Casa Buonarroti – Florence
- House Museum Busoni – Empoli (FI)
- Birthplace of Giosue Carducci – Valdicastello (LU)
- Casa Carducci Museum – Santa Maria a Monte (PI)
- Carducci House Museum – Castagneto Carducci (LI)
- House Museum Enrico Caruso – Lastra a Signa (FI)
- Primo Conti Museum – Fiesole (FI)
- House Museum Francesco Datini – Prato
- Birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci – Anchiano, Vinci (FI)
- Guerrazzi House – Cecina (LI)
- Museum of the Abbey of Vaiano – Casa Agnolo Firenzuola
- Casa Guidi, House of Remembrance of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning – Florence (Event on April 3rd)
- Allori Evangelical Cemetery – Florence
- English Cemetery – Florence (April 3rd Event)
- Casa Fosco Maraini – Location Pasquiglìora, Molazzana (LU)
- Studio House Quinto Martini – Seano, Carmignano (PO)
- Montanelli Bassi Foundation – Fucecchio (FI)
- Villa of Papiano – Lamporecchio (PT)
- Giovanni Pascoli House Museum – Castelvecchio Pascoli (LU)
- Villa Pozzolini of Bivigliano – Vaglia (FI)
- Puccini Museum, Birthplace – (Lucca);
- Villa del Mulinaccio Museum, Filippo Sassetti House – Vaiano (Prato)
- Villa “Il Tondo dei Cipressi” by Giovanni Spadolini – Florence
- Leonetto Tintori House Museum – Figline (Prato)
- Villa Tinti Fabiani – Petrazzi, Castelfiorentino (FI)
- Ugo Guidi Museum in Massa (MS)
- Venturino Venturi Museum – Loro Ciuffenna (AR)
Umbria
- Oddi Marini Clarelli Palace – Perugia; Menotti House – Spoleto
Brands
- Pio VIII Castiglioni House Museum – Cingoli (MC)
- Casa Montessori Chiaravalle – Chiaravalle (AN)
- Birthplace/Corridoni Museum – Corridonia (MC)
- Birthplace of Enrico Mattei – Acqualagna (PU)
- Casa Rossini (birthplace of Gioachino Rossini) – Pesaro (PU)
- Rossini National Museum – Pesaro (PU)
- Archive, Library, Museum Gaspare Spontini – Majolati Spontini (AN)
Lazio
- Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum – Rome
- Boncompagni Ludovisi Museum of Crafts, Costumes and Fashion of the 19th and 20th centuries – Rome
- Keats-Shelley Memorial House – Rome
- Giorgi-Roffi Isabelli Palace – Ferentino (FR)
- Locanda Martorelli-Museum of the Grand Tour – Ariccia (RM); Scelsi House Museum – Rome
- House Museum Ugo Tognazzi – Velletri (RM)
- Studio No. 12 by Francesco Trombadori, Villa Strohl-Fern – Rome;
Abruzzo
- Municipal Art Gallery House Museum “Vincenzo Bindi” – Giulianova (TE)
- Centro Agathé House Museum Mario Dell’Agata – Pineto (TE)
- House Museum Ignazio Silone – Pescina (AQ)
Basilicata
- Michele Tedesco and the 19th Century Lucan Museum – Moliterno (PZ)
Sicily
- House Museum Luigi Capuana – Mineo (CT)
- Study Center Maria Costa – Paradiso, Messina (ME)
- Casa Cuseni, Museum of Fine Arts and the Grand Tour of the City of Taormina – Taormina (ME)
- Donnafugata Castle – Ragusa;
- Lanza Tomasi Palace – Palermo
- House of Judges Livatino – Canicattì (AG)
- House-Museum of Blessed Giuseppe Puglisi – Palermo
- Vincenzo Bellini’s Birthplace Museum – Catania
- Museum Birthplace of Salvatore Quasimodo – Modica (RG)
- Birthplace of Sister Rosa Roccuzzo – Monterosso Almo (RG)
- House of the poet Vann’Antò – Contrada Costa, Ragusa (RG)
- Museum of the Vergic Imaginary – Vizzini (CT)