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Como city of silk
Como città della seta The route starts from the Museo della Seta (silk museum), in via Castelnuovo, which tells the story of silk production in the city from the late nineteenth to the early decades of the twentieth century. Exhibits include the machines and tools employed and takes a look at the role of the textile sector in the development of the local economy and Como itself. The origins of silk spinning in Como date back to the sixteenth century, but in the late nineteenth century the textile industry acquired overwhelming importance to become the primary economic resource for the Como area also thanks to the work of Pietro Pinchetti, founder of the textile school at the Setificio silk factory. This is located right next to what is now the museum. Each room in the museum illustrates a different part of the production process, including through the use of textiles and the progress made in the science of silk manufacture, both in technological and creative terms.
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Museums
Discover the many interesting Museums in the city of Como. There are four Municipal Museums and other private Museums that display the most diverse collections. The four Municipal Museums are: Museo Giovio (Archaeological Museum), Museo Garibaldi (Historical Museum), PInacoteca Civica (Art Gallery) and Tempio Voltiano (Museum dedicated to Alessandro Volta). Other museums include the well-known Silk Museum of Como.
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Collectibles
Collectibles The Archeological Museum of Como includes an interesting Collectibles Section, including an original Egyptian mummy and many different objects from different eras and locations. The section dedicated to 19th century archaeological collecting presents findings of different cultures acquired mostly thanks to the legacy of an important private collector from Como, Alfonso Garovaglio. In this section there are currently exhibited, the Greek and Magno-Greek vases, the bronzes, the gems, the coins, as well as the prehistoric collection of Innocenzo Regazzoni. The Egyptian collection includes a thousand objects collected or purchased to document various aspects of the artistic production of ancient Egypt, or for scientific curiosity, such as stuffed animals and mummies. A sarcophagus in cartonnage stands out, consisting of various layers of stuccoed and carefully painted canvas, which preserves inside it the mummy of the priestess Isiuret.
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Prehistory and Protohistory
Prehistory and proto-history Prehistory and proto-history section in the Archeological Museum in Como. The illustration of the evolutionary process that led to the appearance of mankind in the area of Como introduces the exhibition of chronologically ordered archaeological materials, discovered in the city of Como area. The first local testimonies, dating back to the Middle Paleolithic (60,000-35,000 years ago), are those found in Bagaggera, near Rovagnate, and in the cave of Buco del Piombo, in Erba. The excavations on Mount Cornizzolo and Erbonne in Valle Intelvi, both sites frequented by hunters-gatherers 7,000 years ago during the seasonal hunting trips, illustrate the Mesolithic period (8,000-4,500 years ago). Around the middle of the 5th millennium BC agriculture and breeding spread, the production of ceramics and polished stone tools began, stable settlements were built: this is the beginning of the Neolithic period. The excavation of Montano Lucino, is one of the few sites
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The Ethnographic Section
The Ethnographic Section Objects of an ethnographic type, testimonies of local culture at various levels, appear in the catalogs of the Museum since the beginning. The setting up of the Risorgimento section in 1932, in the rooms on the main floor of the building overlooking the square, was followed by the setting up of the other rooms on the same floor of the building, for the most part overlooking the large courtyard and porch. The section found an organic arrangement only in 1968; the setup of that time is still largely that of today . The route starts from the "Sala Duomo", dominated by plaster casts of the statues of Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger, the original are placed on the facade of the Cathedral, built around 1911 by the architect. Federico Frigerio. This hall and the next one, Sala Rovelli, are currently used for temporary exhibitions. The Sala Manzi preserves evidence relating to the seventeenth-nineteenth centuries, with particular regard to clothing, both nobles
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Como live 100e20 music, shows and entertainment in the city
Palazzo Cernezzi, via Vittorio Emanuele II 9.0850402 45.8098666The Council of Culture of Como organizes for the summer 2017 the fifth edition of COMOLIVE 100 e20, a music and entertainment Festival in the city of Como.
There are numerous events from June to September, which will animate the summer of Como, transforming the squares and the courtyards in open air stages under the stars, with events ranging from music to cinema, from entertainment to theater and dance, to poetry, art and archeology.
COMOLIVE 100 e20 is a rich billboard (click here for the full programme in Italian - PDF) that also includes the Como City of Music (Festival Como
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StreetScape8
Accademia di Belle Arti Aldo Galli, via Francesco Petrarca 9, 22100 Como 9.0924826 45.8064384Street Art and Urban Art public project in the squares and courtyards of the city of Como. Contemporary artists will fill the city with sculptures and urban installations in dialogue with the city’s public spaces.
StreetScape8
Street Art & Urban Art
Curated by Chiara Canali and Ivan Quaroni
From 12th October to 17th November all the works from the eighth edition of StreetScape8, the Public Art project that proposes new “views” of the streets and glimpses of the city of Como through the intervention of contemporary artworks, will be on display in order to revitalise the artistic, historical, architectural and museum heritage of the city.
Every year StreetScape involves the participation of established and emerging contemporary artists on the Italian and international scene, who are invited to create
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Intrecci di popoli
Via Vittorio Emanuele II 97 9.0849769 45.8098791Intrecci di popoli is a Festival of cultures, twinning and international cooperation that takes place in Como every May.
The aim is to help citizens understand what cooperation, migration and cities twinning mean.
The festival is promoted by Comune di Como, ufficio Relazioni Internazionali, along with Centro Servizi del Volontariato comasco and Diocesi di Como.The 2017 Edition startd on May 5th to May 14th and includes a Photography Exhibition, Music and Art performances and the partecipation of Author Nicolai Lilin.
2017 Full Festival Programme of Events (in Italian)
Collectibles
Collectibles The Archeological Museum of Como includes an interesting Collectibles Section, including an original Egyptian mummy and many different objects from different eras and locations. The section dedicated to 19th century archaeological collecting presents findings of different cultures acquired mostly thanks to the legacy of an important private collector from Como, Alfonso Garovaglio. In this section there are currently exhibited, the Greek and Magno-Greek vases, the bronzes, the gems, the coins, as well as the prehistoric collection of Innocenzo Regazzoni. The Egyptian collection includes a thousand objects collected or purchased to document various aspects of the artistic production of ancient Egypt, or for scientific curiosity, such as stuffed animals and mummies. A sarcophagus in cartonnage stands out, consisting of various layers of stuccoed and carefully painted canvas, which preserves inside it the mummy of the priestess Isiuret.
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Prehistory and Protohistory
Prehistory and proto-history Prehistory and proto-history section in the Archeological Museum in Como. The illustration of the evolutionary process that led to the appearance of mankind in the area of Como introduces the exhibition of chronologically ordered archaeological materials, discovered in the city of Como area. The first local testimonies, dating back to the Middle Paleolithic (60,000-35,000 years ago), are those found in Bagaggera, near Rovagnate, and in the cave of Buco del Piombo, in Erba. The excavations on Mount Cornizzolo and Erbonne in Valle Intelvi, both sites frequented by hunters-gatherers 7,000 years ago during the seasonal hunting trips, illustrate the Mesolithic period (8,000-4,500 years ago). Around the middle of the 5th millennium BC agriculture and breeding spread, the production of ceramics and polished stone tools began, stable settlements were built: this is the beginning of the Neolithic period. The excavation of Montano Lucino, is one of the few sites