Museattivo Claudio Costa, Art museum in Quarto dei Mille district, Genoa, Italy

Museattivo Claudio Costa is an art museum in Genoa housed in a former psychiatric hospital building, displaying paintings, mixed media works, and sculptures. The collection is exhibited in the Michelini therapeutic complex and features a sculpture garden within the surrounding grounds.

The museum grew out of the Istituto per le Materie e le Forme Inconsapevoli (I.M.F.I.), founded by Claudio Costa, Luigi Maccioni, Antonio Slavich, Gianfranco Vendemiati and Miriam Cristaldi inside the former psychiatric hospital of Quarto dei Mille. It was renamed Museattivo Claudio Costa after its creator died in 1995. The Sculpture Garden opened on 23 April 1999 in the grounds of the Michelini therapeutic community, and in 2007 the former hospital library was named after Costa.

The collection brings together works by established artists alongside creative pieces from former hospital residents. This mix creates a dialogue between professional art practice and the therapeutic value of creative work.

The museum now occupies one of the buildings facing the Michelini therapeutic community, inside the perimeter of the former psychiatric hospital at Quarto dei Mille. The Sculpture Garden has been moved into the different gardens of that complex, so look for the works outdoors rather than in the old exhibition rooms.

The sculpture section, inaugurated on 23 April 1999, applies a method derived from the British theorist Sir Herbert Read: sculpting turns aggression into creative use. The psychiatrist-artist Margherita Levo Rosenberg and the sculptor Alfonso Gialdini led the sessions, organised by Gianfranco Vendemmiati, in the garden of the Michelini therapeutic community.