Sale D’Arte

The Municipal Art Rooms house works of ancient and modern art. The museum itinerary, renewed in terms of furnishings and exhibition facilities, aims to offer the public some of the most important works and objects of art from the collections of the Municipal Museum and Art Gallery.

The exhibition is divided into three sections: the hall is dedicated to the Alexandrian Middle Ages, with an itinerary through images and iconographies of the medieval fabric and the city's most representative buildings, the latter also identified through stone material (votive plaques, capitals, coats of arms and clay material) and artefacts from the archaeological excavations of the ancient St. Peter's Cathedral.

The King Arthur Rooms, with a cycle of frescoes commissioned at the end of the 14th century by Andreino Trotti, a condottiere and member of an important Alexandrian family, to celebrate the victory achieved in 1391, alongside Gian Galeazzo Visconti, against the French troops. The cycle, inspired by the love affairs and vicissitudes of Lancelot of the Lake, is one of the oldest examples of the Lanzaloti room. Originally, the fifteen scenes of the cycle decorated the walls of the large reception room of the Cascina Torre in Frugarolo, where they were only discovered in 1971. The frescoes are displayed here as they were originally arranged in the great hall of the Orba Tower.

The Giovanni Migliara room, the Alberto Caffassi room and the last room of the museum host temporary exhibitions.