Centro studi e archivio della comunicazione, Art museum and archive in Parma, Italy.

The Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione is a research centre of the University of Parma, founded in 1968 by Carlo Arturo Quintavalle and housed since 2007 in the Abbey of Valserena, also called Certosa di Paradigna, a few kilometres from Parma. Its five sections — Art, Photography, Media, Project and Fashion — hold about 12 million pieces across more than 8,000 square metres, and since 2015 a museum open to the public has joined the archive and research functions.

Carlo Arturo Quintavalle founded the centre in 1968 at the Palazzo della Pilotta, modelling its art collections on American examples and starting from Pop art and Informale paintings plus photographic archives such as Vasari, Villani and Stefani. The Progetto section opened in 1980 with 400,000 design pieces. The holdings outgrew the Pilotta, moved to the Padiglione Nervi in 1989 and reached the Abbey of Valserena in 2006.

The Fashion section holds over 70,000 original drawings by Italian designers, from Giorgio Armani and Gianfranco Ferré to Krizia, the Fontana sisters, Moschino and Versace. The Media section keeps cinema poster sketches and satirical drawings from the Il Male and La Repubblica groups, alongside graphic design funds such as Armando Testa and Pino Tovaglia.

The centre occupies the Abbey of Valserena, also called Certosa di Paradigna, a few kilometres from Parma, with more than 8,000 square metres of archive, research and exhibition space. Since February 2020 the museum and collection rooms have been open to the public alongside the archives, after restoration work that began with the 2015 opening of an exhibition space. Look for the former Carthusian monastery buildings that house the five sections: Art, Photography, Media, Project and Fashion.

The fashion section holds over 70,000 original drawings by Italian designers, from Giorgio Armani and Gianfranco Ferré to Krizia, the Fontana sisters, Pino Lancetti, Franco Moschino and Gianni Versace. The Media section keeps cinema poster sketches by Anselmo Ballester and Angelo Cesselon, plus drawings from the satirical group of Il Male.