Brescia, Mita-International Museum of Antique Carpet is born

Mita-Museo Internazionale del Tappeto Antico (International Museum of Antique Carpets) is born in Brescia, based at Via sostegno 32/a, in the Don Bosco neighborhood, one of the city’s youngest and most multiethnic suburban areas. It will officially open to the public in mid-November and is the cultural center of Fondazione Tassara, owner of the world’s largest private collection of antique carpets, established by collector Romain Zaleski: more than 1330 artifacts from Asia, Europe and Africa and dating from the 15th to the 19th century. A collection that covers essentially the entire world production of carpet history.

The center, a former foundry, will be a public space open to the city, designed by the architecture firm Obr. It is presented as a whole in which the parts are related to each other through the void of the central courtyard open to public space. This is why Mita-Museo Internazionale del Tappeto Antico is not intended to be just a building, but a relationship, a place of innovation and creation; a space where the ancient art of carpets interacts and intertwines with the contemporary. Its mission is on the one hand the preservation, protection and enhancement of an artistic heritage of textile works at the disposal of the Foundation (the exhibition will be curated by Giovanni Valagussa, scientific curator of the collection), and on the other hand the journey of the encounter and comparison between different cultures represented in the collection, recognizing in the diversity of the collection itself also the new identity of Brescia.

Brescia, Mita-International Museum of Antique Carpet is born

Warning: the translation into English of the original Italian article was created using automatic tools. We undertake to review all articles, but we do not guarantee the total absence of inaccuracies in the translation due to the program. You can find the original by clicking on the ITA button. If you find any mistake,please contact us.