The Ticino star architect Mario Botta designed (as we all know) the MOMA in San Francisco. But that’s not all – in 2002 Botta also designed the MART northeast of Lake Garda: the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rovereto. Perhaps Italy’s most important collection of futuristic art is housed here. The province of Trento spent 50 million euros on the prestigious project, which offers an exhibition area of over 6,000 square meters.
Perhaps more famous than art is the 25-metre-high glass and steel dome with a diameter of around 40 metres, which vaults the central piazza in front of the museum between two historic palazzi, the entrance area.
On the first floor there are the halls for the temporary exhibitions, while on the second floor parts of the museum’s own collection are on display – the curators can draw on a pool of over 7,000 works of art. The focus is on modern and contemporary Italian art with works by Giorgio Morandi, Giorgio de Chirico, Mimmo Paladino and many others. Italian Futurism, as already mentioned, is represented particularly prominently, but also the Novecento of Italy, informal and abstract art as well as American Pop Art (for example with works by Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and Tom Wesselmann).
Before or after your visit to the museum, you can stroll wonderfully through the narrow streets of Rovereto, a formerly rich small Italian town with mansions, palaces (such as Piazza Rosmini) and mulberry trees that still remind you of the beginnings of prosperity: silkworm breeding.
Corso Bettini 43
38068 Rovereto
price: from 11€ up
monday closed
tue - sun 10.00 am - 6.00 pm
fri 10.00 am - 9.00 pm
