Description
The Centro d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, or CAMeC, is La Spezia's museum of 20th-century art, on Piazza Cesare Battisti, a short walk from the pedestrian area of the center. It alternates the civic collections with temporary exhibitions.
The heart of the museum is the Cozzani collection: 1,157 20th-century works donated to the city by Giorgio and Ilda Cozzani in 1999, including about three hundred drawings and paintings and some eighty sculptures. Alongside it are the Battolini donation and the works of the Premio del Golfo.
The painting prize was founded in 1933 on the initiative of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Fillia. After the war it returned from 1949 to 1965 and, after a long break, it has been held every two years since 2000.
The building has had several lives: built as an elementary school at the beginning of the 20th century, around 1920 it became the city courthouse. Damaged by the bombs of 1943 and rebuilt, it housed La Spezia's courts until 1998. The museum opened in 2004.
The heart of the museum is the Cozzani collection: 1,157 20th-century works donated to the city by Giorgio and Ilda Cozzani in 1999, including about three hundred drawings and paintings and some eighty sculptures. Alongside it are the Battolini donation and the works of the Premio del Golfo.
The painting prize was founded in 1933 on the initiative of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Fillia. After the war it returned from 1949 to 1965 and, after a long break, it has been held every two years since 2000.
The building has had several lives: built as an elementary school at the beginning of the 20th century, around 1920 it became the city courthouse. Damaged by the bombs of 1943 and rebuilt, it housed La Spezia's courts until 1998. The museum opened in 2004.