Soaking up the atmosphere of our castles and museums

The proposals are really a lot, everywhere on the whole area:

Let’s start with the two exhibitions organised by the local Cultural Heritage Directorate:

at Torre Vanga, in Trento, Storie per un anno. Temi di oggi nelle foto di ieri  (Stories for one year. Today's issues in yesterday's photographs) fifty photos on display tell as many stories as are all the pictures kept in the Historic Photographic Archive of the Cultural Heritage Directorate, which every week proposes a different photograph from various time periods to let us find in the past actual issues and matters. (Open Monday to Sunday from 10.00 to 18.00, closed on Christmas and New Year).

At the Tridentum romana the exhibition Ostriche e vino. In cucina con gli antichi romani, (Oysters and wine: in the kitchen with the Ancient Romans), gives us a glimpse on food culture in ancient times along the river Adige, with finds from the archaeological investigations in Trentino.

The SASS, Spazio Archeologico Sotterraneo del Sas (Tridentum. S.A.S.S. - Underground Archaeological Site SASS) in Trento, under Piazza Cesare Battisti, and the Museo delle Palafitte di Fiavé (Museum of Pile dwellings of Fiavé) are open to offer us the opportunity to learn more about the early history of the area and to discover new aspects of our past.

The SASS is open from 9.00 to 13.00 and from 14.00 to 17.30; it will be closed on 25 December, 1 January and on Mondays. The Museo delle Palafitte di Fiavé offers guided tours with special opening on 18 and 27 December at 15.00, on 3 January at 10.30 and 15.00 and on 5 January at 15.00. The tours, led by an archaeologist, are addressed to maximum 30 people; booking required at local tourist office of Terme di Comano: tel. 0465 702626 by 18.00 of the day before the event (costs: 2 €, in addition to the admission ticket).

The Castello del Buonconsiglio, together with Stenico Castle, Beseno Castle,  and Thun Castle, are open for visits from Saturday 24 December to Sunday 8 January (closed only on 25 December and 1 January, except for the Buonconsiglio Castle, which on 1 January will be open from 11.00 to 18.00 with free admission, since it’s the first Sunday of the month) . This year Castel Thun will also be open on 21 December from 9.30 to 15.00.

 At  the Buonconsiglio Castle don’t miss the exhibition Chiesa Impero e turcherie. Giuseppe Alberti pittore e architetto nel Trentino barocco (Church, Empire and Turquerie. Giuseppe Alberti, painter and architect of the Trentino Baroque movement). In December, in addition to the enchanted garden at the Buonconsiglio Castle, on weekends you can take part in guided tours of the manor at 10.30 and at 15.00.

At the Museo diocesano tridentino - The Tridentine diocesan museum, in piazza Duomo, the exhibition Fratelli e sorelle. Racconti dal carcere (Brothers and sisters: stories from the prison), introduces the visitor into a world apart which is the prison. A world of imagined or real spaces, inhabited or not, of silences, sounds, words, memories, voices and stories (closed on Tuesday, 25 December and 1 January).

At the Muse the exhibition Estinzioni (Extinctions), is part of an ambitious project that puts in relation the research and reflections on the sixth mass extinction - the ecological crisis we are experiencing - with the dynamics that characterized the five great paleontological extinctions occurred over the last 500 million years (closed only on 25 December; on 1 January open from 13.00 to 19.00). 

Don’t forget to visit in Trento Le Gallerie di Piedicastello, Fondazione museo storico del Trentino - Trentino history museum foundation, the Tunnels of Piedicastello. The 300 metre long Black Tunnel takes visitors into an immersive and dramatic journey from the Neolithic to the contemporary age with the exhibition Novembre 1966: storia della difesa del territorio in Trentino (November 1966: history of the defense of the terrirory in Trentino)

North of Trento the Museo degli usi e costumi della gente trentina (Museum of the habits and customs of the people of Trentino) in San Michele all’Adige deserves our attention with its almost 9.000 manufactured items dedicated to the rural life in the Trentino mountains; it is considered one of the most important museums of folk life and crafts in Italy, and is one of the largest of its kind in the Alpine range.(http://www.museosanmichele.it/informazioni/orario-e-tariffe/ ).

South of Trento, a lot of surprises are waiting for us at the Mart of Rovereto as well as at the Casa d’arte futurista Depero and Galleria Civica di Trento (at Christmas all the three museums are open 15:00 - 20:00; on Monday 26 December 10:00 - 18:00; 1 January 15:00 - 20:00). In particular, not to be missed is the exhibition Umberto Boccioni. Genio e memoria  (Umberto Boccioni. Genius and Memory) on the occasion of the first centenary of the death of Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) and Eliseo Mattiacci.

The Museo di Riva del Garda also reopens for Yuletide (from 27 to 30 December 2016, from 2 to 8 January 2017, while on 31 December 2016 it will close at 17.00). This year the museum will host until 8 January 2017 the collective exhibition Gli amici dell'arte 1946-2016. Dall'utopia al progetto (The friends of art, 1946-2016. From utopia to the project).

The Galleria Civica G. Segantini of Arco is open Until 15 January 2017, where the docufilm Segantini, ritorno alla natura  (“Segantini, return to nature")  enriches the exhibition dedicated to Segantini Segantini e Arco ; it is produced by Apnea Film, starring Filippo Timi and directed by Francesco Fei, with Gioconda Segantini, Annie-Paule Quinsac, Franco Marrocco, Romano Turrini.