Museums

Not only museums. Cultural attractions in Piedmont are not to be counted. Palaces, royal residences, abbeys, castles are just some of the proposals the region offers to immerse yourself in the history of the place and in the beauty that art can bestow. This section lists the same museums on the Abbonamenti Musei website, which can be visited with the relevant card. Thanks to the flow of data from Abbonamento Musei, each card is updated with the dates and opening hours of the various sites of cultural interest, as well as containing a brief description of what can be discovered in each of them. A journey through almost 300 treasure troves of culture, of regional and national as well as global significance.

You can start, for example, from the heart of Piedmont, from Asti, where Palazzo Alfieri, the birthplace of the playwright Vittorio Alfieri, is located. And then move on to Vercelli, where the Waterlands Ecomuseum and the Valsesia Ecomuseum are located. Moving a little further north, in Novara, is the dome of San Gaudenzio, designed by the genius Alessandro Antonelli. And then, in Biella, you can lose yourself in the delights of Cittadellarte, Fondazione Pistoletto, which is housed in an old factory and hosts the Biella artist's largest permanent collection of works. In Verbania, you can visit, among other things, the Visconti Castle in Vogogna, which already stood guard over the entire valley in the 14th century.

Piedmont and its attractions then expand to the south with, to name a few, Alessandria and its unique Bicycle Museum. The route continues in the rich province of Cuneo, where you can witness the splendour of the Sanctuary of Vicoforte (which contains one of the largest elliptical domes in the world), discover the wine museum in Barolo or that of the Langhe in Grinzane Cavour. And, lastly, Turin. From the splendour of the Abbey of San Michele in Sant'Ambrogio in Turin, one can move on to the broad spectrum of cultural centres in the regional capital. Royal Museums and the RAI Museum, the National Cinema Museum and the Italian Centre for Photography, the Museum of Oriental Art and the Egyptian Museum: in Turin, Piedmont and the world intersect. And the journey becomes an endless road into culture.