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The Museum Vincenzo Vela

The Vincenzo Vela Museum is one of the most important artists' house-museums to have been erected in nineteenth-century Europe. Conceived by the great realist sculptor Vincenzo Vela from Ticino (1820-91) at the height of his career, and transformed into a public museum after it was donated to the Swiss state, in addition to Vincenzo Vela's gallery of monumental plaster casts it includes the bequests of the sculptor Lorenzo Vela (1812-97) and painter Spartaco Vela (1854-95), a remarkable collection of nineteenth-century Lombard and Piedmontese paintings, hundreds of autograph drawings and one of the earliest private collections of photographs in Switzerland.

The Museum

The Museum Vincenzo Vela

The Vincenzo Vela Museum is one of the most important artists' house-museums to have been erected in nineteenth-century Europe.

«Nature morte», 2023, video still

Communication30 January 2026

“Bertille Bak. Voices from the Earth”

April 26, 2026 – January 10, 2027; opening: Saturday, April 25, 2026

Communication30 January 2026

Focus on the “Vittime del lavoro”

April 26, 2026 – January 10, 2027

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Dietro le quinte della permanente

Alla scoperta delle opere conservate nei depositi.

Communication9 March 2026

Giovedì 12 marzo 2026, ore 14.00

Proiezione del film «Pianura – Hallucinations and Living Space»

Communication25 February 2026

Parlano di noi...

Un invito al Museo e un incontro con Vittorio Emanuele II a Torino.

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