Museo Glauco Lombardi

The Museo Lombardi is an art museum in the city of Parma, Emilia-Romagna (Italy).

The Museum was created by the efforts of Glauco Lombardi (1881-1971), who devoted his entire life to the recovery, study and conservation of all that remained on the antiquary market or in private collections of the enormous artistic and documentary heritage of Parma under the Bourbons (1748-1802, 1847-1859) and Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma (1816-1847), largely scattered during the period of Italian Unification in various residences of the Savoy family.

From 1915 to 1943 the original nucleus of the Museo Lombardi was housed in the ballroom and adjacent rooms of the Ducal Palace of Colorno. The year 1934 is a crucial one for the museum: it was then that Lombardi finally managed to stipulate an agreement with count Giovanni Sanvitale to sell to the Museum the precious objects that had belonged to Duchess Marie Louise, grandmother of count Giovanni.

The Second World War and the difficult post-war years brought extenuating bureaucratic difficulties, that went on until 1961, when the museum was reopened in new premises, this time at Palazzo di Riserva in the city center of Parma, with the name of Museo Glauco Lombardi.

From 1997 to 1999 the museum underwent a complete, very difficult restoration, which became necessary after the acquisition of new buildings that, while changing little of the original order and criteria of the display planned and desired by Glauco Lombardi, made it possible to provide the museum premises with more modern and effective systems of security and utilization.

External links

• Official site