Museums

The international Festival of Ceramics is a special time to visit our museums. You can discover an important exposition about the ancient chemist's shop, by Fondazione Museo Montelupo in co-operation with the Chemists's Shop of Santa Maria Novella of Florence.


Ceramics Museum

Piazza Vittorio Veneto, 11
Ph. 0571/51352
www.museomontelupo.it

OPEN HOUSE AT THE FACTORIES – A GUIDE TOUR IN DISCOVERY OF AN ANCIENT TRADITION

From June 19 to 27, 2010, on the occasion of the International Ceramic Festival, it will be possible ti visit the factories along the Road of ceramics of Montelupo Fiorentino, open to the public in the evening, for the occasion, every day of the event.

The meeting place will be the Ceramics Museum. All tours are free of charge. Advantage booking required.

Information and reservations:
Ceramics Museum of Montelupo Fiorentino
Ph. 0571/51352
info@museomontelupo.it

EXIBITIONS


Ceramics Museum
Piazza Vittorio Veneto, 11
Ph. 0571/51352
www.museomontelupo.it

Every day from 10 am to midnight.
Admission with the cumulative ticked for the Museum System: full price 5.00 euros, reduced price A 4.00 euros, reduced price B 3.00 euros.
(The ticked is good for the admission to the Ceramic Museum, the archeological Museum and the Contemporary Art Museum)


Temporary exhibition hall

The historical Florentine Pharmacy. The “jars” in majolica from Montelupo (15th-16th century).
The exhibition explores the period of creation of the pharmaceutical institutes in the hospitals and convents in the Florentine State, significantly extending this study to the private spice dealers (the earliest pharmacies) operating in Florence and in the other Tuscan cities.
The initiative focuses on the participation of the ceramic enterprises of Montelupo in the construction of the complex pharmaceutical network..

Hall of the museum

The Road of  Ceramics of Montelupo – The production of its partners and products certified with our trademarks The Road of ceramics is a system that links the ceramic art with the business of tourist accommodation, cultural aspects with a typically Tuscan landscape, the valorization of typical products with a rich calendar of events.
Is is an ideal route linking the ceramic Museum of Montelupo to the ceramic manufacturers, the ceramic school, and the many associations that work to keep the ancient procedures alive.
In the great hall of the Ceramic Museum, a special show will illustrate the sites along the Road of ceramics of Montelupo Fiorentino.

MAIB
At the Colorobbia S.p.a plant
Via a. Gramsci, 12
Oh 0571/51033 – fax 0571/910477
www.fondazionevittorianobitossi.it

A century of artist ceramics: modern style and desing from the Bitossi Industrial Archive.
The exhibition illustrates the value and potential of one of the most important companies for the history of Montelupo. The Bitossi Industrial Archive contains over 6.000 ceramics that testify, one by one, to that combination of techonology and creativity that decreed the success of our contry in the later half of the 20th century.

Contemporary Art Museum
Palazzo Podestarile
Via Baccio da Montelupo,45

Every day from 10 am to midnight.
Admission with the cumulative ticked for the Museum System: full price 5.00 euros, reduced price A 4.00 euros, reduced price B 3.00 euros.
The museum house important collections that document production in the industrial era (form 1800 to the present) and the activity of the artists who expressed themselves working with ceramic. It is an ideal visit after the ceramic Museum, with its orientation to analysing the relationship between creativity and mass production. The permanent collections features works by Bruno Bagnoli and Beppe Serafini, the historical factories of Montelupo (in particular Fanciullacci, Mancioli and Bitossi), the collection of Alvino Bagni. During the ceramic festival several temporary exhibitions have organized:

Ground floor
The art of ceramic
Exhibition entitled: CONTEMPORARY DIRECTION..
Play:

Ancient Klin Area
Ceramibuoni
Prototypes of the Food Desing Competion


Bista Viviani Room
The towns with the most ancient ceramic tradition: Tuscan Lands

Ancient Ceramic room
European Ceramics : Moustiers Sainte Marie