Palazzo dei Musei – Pinacoteca di Varallo e Museo Calderini

The Palace of Museums it is a place steeped in history, where Art and Nature coexist in continuous dialogue.

La Art Gallery, founded at the end of the’Nineteenth century, recounts the richness of Valsesian artistic tradition, fuelled over the centuries by the prestigious shipyard of Sacred Mountain of Varallo, of which the museum preserves some of the oldest examples sculptural and pictorial.
The exhibition route winds its way from the Four hundred to nine hundred following the course of time: from the masterpieces of Gaudenzio Ferrari e Tanzio from Varallo, artists of international renown, to the collections of D'Adda Palace, an influential Milanese family who arrived in Varallo in the mid-19th century. Five hundred.
The story continues between The 18th and 19th Centuries, a period of great artistic fervour in Valsesia, as evidenced by generations of artists trained in the Schools in Varallo, the oldest Art School and that of wood carving founded by the marquis Carlo Tancredi Falletti of Barolo.

Two important works enrich the Pinacoteca's collection private collections:

• the Remogna collectionwith works by Moncalvo, Camillo Procaccini e Giambettino Cignaroli;
• the Francesco Franchi majolica collection, consisting of approximately two hundred pieces which recount the evolution of’ceramic art in Italy from Three hundred to seven hundred through the most prestigious manufacturers.

The Natural History Museum, inaugurated in 1867, bears the name of its founder, the Valsesian priest Pietro Calderini. Originally known as place of education, with naturalistic materials designed as teaching tools for Technical Schools, over time becomes the hub of scientific studies in Valsesia. The scientific collections are gradually being supplemented by collections archaeological e demoethnoanthropological, transforming the original museum into a veritable Cabinet of curiosities.

In 2017, on the occasion of the 150 years since its foundation, the new exhibition dedicated to natural sciences: a journey of discovery Earth, come on minerals at rocks, to accounts of life in the past – the fossils – and the evolutionary path of the animal kingdom. The museum is part of the network. MUVV – Museums of Vercelli and Varallo.

Starting from end of 2025, the Museum Building houses The drawings of the Pinacoteca di Varallo, a new permanent space dedicated to the museum's graphic collection, consisting of over two thousand sheets dating from between 16th and 20th centuries. The initiative is funded by Cariplo Foundation under the project Open Museum and produced with the support of Monterosa Valsesia Consortium.