The National Automobile Museum was set up in 1932, on the left bank of the River Po, based on the idea of two pioneers of Italian motoring, Cesare Goria Gatti and Roberto Biscaretti di Ruffia, the first President of the Turin Automobile Club and one of the founders of Fiat. However, it was Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia, Roberto’s son, after whom the National Automobile Museum was named in 1960, who conceived and put together the initial collection: the “steam vehicle”, designed by Virginio Bordino in 1854, the first Benz model, dated 1893, the first Peugeot model to circulate in Italy, the Pecori, which was the first three-wheeled car built in our country, just to mention a few of the most valuable exhibits. The MAUTO perfectly represents the excellence of the City of Turin, a place of conservation and memory, prestigious and unique in its kind. The National Automobile Museum boasts a collection of over 200 models of the highest quality and historical value, from various countries including Italy. We tell the story of the motor car, its transformation from a means of transport to an object of worship, from its origins right up to the contemporary evolution of creative thought.

In 1958 the Museum was opened to the public at Palazzo Chiablese, where part of the extraordinary collection of magic lanterns, objects and machinery of the Prolo collection was exhibited. In the Nineties he gained the choice to enhance the collections, creating a Foundation and above all giving the Museum a new location. The choice finally fell on the Mole and today, thanks also to its location in a building with such a strong visual and scenographic impact, the National Cinema Museum is an unmissable stop for anyone visiting Turin.

The Foundation, named after Mario Merz, was founded as a contemporary art center in 2005, with the aim of hosting exhibitions, events, educational activities and carrying out research and the study of art. The headquarters were originally the central of the Officine Lancia, a fascinating example of industrial architecture in Turin in the 1930s, which rises along the axis of the so-called "Spina centrale", a development urbanistic director on which numerous public art works have been carried out.

La Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo è un'istituzione senza scopo di lucro nata a Torino nel 1995 che sostiene l'arte contemporanea e in particolare la produzione dei giovani artisti. La Fondazione ha due sedi: Palazzo Re Rebaudengo a Guarene d’Alba, residenza settecentesca tra le colline del Roero, e il Centro torinese, un’architettura museale costruita ex novo in un quartiere che testimonia il passato industriale della città e le sue trasformazioni.

The Egyptian Museum of Turin, Museo Egizio Torino, is the oldest museum in the world, entirely dedicated to the Nilotic civilization and is considered, by value and quantity of the finds, the most important in the world after that of Cairo. Many internationally renowned scholars, beginning with the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphics, Jean-François Champollion, who arrived in Turin in 1824, have since devoted themselves to the study of his collections. When it was founded (1824), the Museo Egizio Torino was housed in the building called the Collegio dei Nobili, built to a design by Michelangelo Garove from 1679 on. It was used to exhibit the first antiquities in the Drovetti collection, purchased by King Carlo Felice. Following alterations by Giuseppe Maria Talucchi and Alessandro Mazzucchetti, the building was enlarged and adapted to its new use in the second half of the 19th century. Already in 1832, however, the Museum was opened to the public. Between 1903 and 1937, the archaeological excavations conducted in Egypt by Ernesto Schiaparelli and then by Giulio Farina brought some 30,000 artefacts to Turin. The Museum underwent a first reorganization of the rooms in 1908, and a second, more important one, in 1924, with the official visit by the king. Starting from the 1980s, partly as a result of increasing numbers of visitors, it became necessary to plan a new itinerary for visitors that led to the installation of new exhibition spaces. In particular, the reclamation and masonry underpinning of the Schiaparelli Wing created extensive underground spaces devoted to the archaeological activities at Assiut, Qau el-Kebir and Gebelein. On the ground floor, a large room was recovered to house antiquities from the Predynastic Period and Old Kingdom.

Designed by the architect Amedeo di Castellamonte at the behest of Duke Carlo Emanuele II who wanted to make it his hunting lodge and built in a very short time, from 1658 to 1679, the Reggia di Venaria is certainly one of the largest and most beautiful Savoy residences. Imposing, sumptuous, his project was resumed for the construction of the palace par excellence, that of Versailles. The Reggia di Venaria has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997. The complex, of which the palace is part, consists of approximately 80,000 m2 of walkable land, including the park and the historic village of Venaria. The village was later joined by other houses and palaces of ordinary citizens who wanted to live in the surroundings of the Royal Palace, until Venaria Reale became an independent municipality in the province of Turin. The palace gardens were lost due to Napoleon's French who transformed them into a parade ground. Only later were the restoration works of the surrounding natural setting resumed. Since 2007, after eight years of restorations, the splendid gardens of the palace complex of Venaria represent the flagship of this magnificent construction with the spaces of the English Gardens, that of Flowers and Roses, and the area of ​​the groves. At the beginning of the eighteenth century Filippo Juvarra worked on the complex and in particular on the construction of the Grand Gallery and at the same time of the Church of Sant’Uberto, set between the palaces so as not to allow the construction of the dome. The last works, which concerned the stables, the riding school, the staircase of the Diana Palace and the Sant’Uberto gallery were carried out between the second half of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century. Progettata dall’architetto Amedeo di Castellamonte per volontà del duca Carlo Emanuele II che voleva farne la sua residenza di caccia e costruita in pochissimo tempo, dal 1658 al 1679, la Reggia di Venaria è sicuramente una delle maggiori e più belle residenze sabaude. Imponente, fastosa, il suo progetto fu ripreso per la costruzione della reggia per antonomasia, quella di Versailles. La Reggia di Venaria fa parte dal 1997 del patrimonio dell’umanità dell’UNESCO. Il complesso, di cui fa parte la reggia, è costituito da circa 80.000 m2 di terreno calpestabile, include il parco ed il borgo storico di Venaria. Al borgo si unirono successivamente altre case e palazzi di semplici cittadini che vollero abitare nei dintorni della Reggia, fino a che Venaria Reale divenne comune autonomo della provincia di Torino. I giardini della reggia furono persi a causa dei francesi di Napoleone che li trasformarono in piazza d’armi. Solo in seguito furono ripresi i lavori di risanamento dell’ambientazione naturale circostante. Dal 2007, dopo otto anni di restauri, gli splendidi giardini del complesso della reggia di Venaria rappresentano il fiore all’occhiello di questa magnifica costruzione con gli spazi dei Giardini all’Inglese, quello dei Fiori e delle Rose, e l’area dei boschetti. Agli inizi del Settecento Filippo Juvarra lavorò al complesso e in particolare alla costruzione della Gran Galleria e parallelamente della Chiesa di Sant’Uberto, incastonata tra i palazzi tanto da non permetterne la costruzione della cupola. Gli ultimi lavori, che riguardavano le scuderie, il maneggio, la scala della Reggia di Diana e la galleria di Sant’Uberto furono realizzati tra la seconda metà del Settecento e l’inizio dell’Ottocento.

The MAU – Museum of Urban Art of Turin is the first project in the phase of concrete realization, in Italy, with the aim of creating a permanent outdoor artistic settlement located inside a large metropolitan center, with the addition the added value of being an initiative started not from above but from the base, thanks to the consent and the fundamental contribution of the inhabitants. The original nucleus of the MAU is located in the Borgo Vecchio Campidoglio, a working class district of the late 19th century, located between the Switzerland, Appio Claudio and Tassoni courses, and via Fabrizi and Cibrario, not far from the city center. A portion of urban space miraculously saved from the eviscerations operated by the Regulatory Plan of 1959, which has kept its lattice structure almost intact consisting of low houses with large internal courtyards with green areas, divided by narrow streets, all to favor the relationship of commonality between the inhabitants and a type of settlement, in a semi-central area of ​​Turin, such as to make it a “town within the city”. Beginning in 1991, a work of revaluation of the social, urban and architectural peculiarities of the Borgo began. At a certain point, in the spring of 1995, it is considered to extend the sphere of intervention to art, involving citizens in the choices, given the initial availability of some of them, then continued over time until the current results. The Urban Redevelopment Committee invites some cultural operators in the city to provide their opinion, the Faculty of Architecture with Prof. Carla Bartolozzi, the Accademia Albertina, the artist and master of art Giacomo Soffiantino, and also the author of the present, at the time a member of the Board of Museums and Exhibitions of the City of Turin and artistic co-director of the Gallery of Modern Art, already engaged for years on the front of the relationship between art and territory. On 1 April 2014, the MAU was included in the recognized realities as part of a framework resolution on public art in Turin. Starting from the “Day of the MAU” in November 2007, our Association has strongly intensified its activities in the area by forging closer collaboration with the craft, commercial, artistic and cultural activities present. Numerous events have been organized or in which we have actively collaborated... We mention the various editions of the Grape Festival, We Camp, Campidoglio never stops, Rocciamelone Arts & Crafts by night, MAU & Co., Remembering Gianni. Street Art to Art (charity auction in memory of the artisan of the Borgo Gianni Garino), Il Borgo adopts the AISM. Borgo Campidoglio for multiple sclerosis, Campidoglio On Ice, Fuori Schema 2013/2014. More and more requests for guided tours of groups and institutions, in addition to those traditionally organized for some years with the Turin Piedmont Museum Subscription, and now also extended to the Antiaereo Refuge in Piazza Risorgimento, in collaboration with the Diffuse Museum of the Resistance.

A come Ambiente è il primo museo europeo interamente dedicato alle tematiche ambientali, pensato per offrire a bambini, scuole e famiglie la possibilità di informarsi e riflettere in modo multimediale e creativo su temi attuali come l'energia, il riciclo dei materiali, l'acqua e i trasporti.