Mario Rimoldi Modern Art Museum, Modern art museum in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
The Mario Rimoldi Museum for Modern Art is a museum dedicated to Italian twentieth-century art located in Cortina d'Ampezzo in the Alps. The collection contains approximately 364 paintings, sculptures, and other works spanning several decades of modernist and figurative traditions.
Mario Rimoldi, a travel agency owner and collector, bought works by young Italian artists in the 1920s and 1930s when their art had little market or state support. His collection was first shown in 1941 and passed to the Regole d'Ampezzo in 1963. After his widow Rosa Braun donated it, the museum opened in 1974 in the Casa delle Regole on Piazza Venezia.
The museum is named after Mario Rimoldi, a travel agency owner and collector who bought works by young Italian artists in the 1920s and 1930s when they had little market or state support. His friends and clients included painters Filippo De Pisis, Giorgio de Chirico, Mario Sironi, Massimo Campigli and Zoran Mušič, who often stayed with him in Cortina d'Ampezzo. The museum also hosts classical music concerts.
The museum operates on split hours across the week, closing during midday, so plan your visit to match these time blocks. Since it sits in a mountain town, weather conditions and road access may vary by season, which is worth checking before traveling there.
The institution is managed as part of a group of three museums run by the local governing body, alongside paleontological and ethnographic collections in the same area. This arrangement allows visitors to experience different angles on regional heritage and Italian cultural history within a compact geographic zone.
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