Liberty Museum

Dream comes true.

The shores of Lake Iseo see the first Museum of Liberty in Italy rise in the ancient village of Sarnico.

Art critics such as Rossana Bossaglia and Lara Vinca Masini had written and spoken often about that happy artistic movement called Art Nouveau, but never before has a place open to everyone been established in the beautiful country, where you can experience first hand the golden era of the Belle Époque, with the opportunity to enjoy live and touch lithographs, furniture, original objects of the period.

The souls who gave life to this dream - also committed with love, passion and own resources - go from the first citizen Giorgio Bertazzoli, to the delegate to beauty Andrea Speziale. Thanks to their commitment, combined with that of the entire city council, and to the strength of the citizens, they can finally write a chapter in the history of this Liberty village, crowning a more than sought-after and sought-after goal.

The museum was designed in the Bergamo area because a few minutes from the Villas at the Asylum to the Sarnicense Mausoleum designed by Giuseppe Sommaruga, the undisputed protagonist of this style that gave the city a showcase of uniqueness when he signed the projects for the Faccanoni family at the beginning of the twentieth century.

As the floral style accompanied the crisis of the Great War, offering bronze artifacts still exposed in the Monumentals, today, with the new coronavirus, this style returns to the limelight fighting to impose beauty and transmit the warm colors and sinuous lines that we find in the majolica, in the lithographs and in art objects: stimuli of joy and liveliness in the hopeful souls of those who resist surrounded by the walls of their homes. In 2020, therefore, the window opens to the Museum of Liberty digitally - to then open its doors also in the physical world once this difficult historical moment has been overcome. Here on Google Arts & Culture you can admire some masterpieces in preview.