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Museo Vincenzo Vela

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Museo Vincenzo Vela
Museo Vincenzo Vela. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

About

The Museo Vincenzo Vela is an artist museum in Ligornetto, a village in the municipality of Mendrisio in the Swiss canton of Ticino.

Dedicated primarily to the work of the sculptor Vincenzo Vela, it occupies the villa he built on a hillside above his native village. The museum preserves one of Europe's most substantial collections of nineteenth-century sculptural models and was the first public museum in Ticino. It is listed as a cultural property of national significance in the Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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