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Cortina - MUSEUMS

Introduction
This site offers an insight into the geological evolution and fossils of the Dolomites, narrate the history and traditions of Cortina d’Ampezzo and present a foremost collection of 20th-cent. Italian art. We hope you will enjoy reading them and that you might also be able to come and visit the museums personally.
The home of the museums is the “Ciasa de ra Regoles”. This is one of Cortina d’Ampezzo's major civic buildings, along with the Comùn Vècio, and has a long history behind it. The building is of the typical 19th-cent. Austrian urban type with its canopy roof, shaped cornice and absence of balconies. The building was originally a school, created by the dean, Rudiferia. In 1825, he convinced the Council to erect it and work was finished in 1827. In 1868, it was already too small for the number of pupils, so another floor was added. The building remained a "People's School" until the new primary schools, run by the church, were opened in 1938. In 1957, it became the headquarters of the Regole d’Ampezzo, the Family Mountain Communities which have managed the land around Ampezzo for centuries. In 1971-72 the interior of the Ciasa de Ra Regoles was radically renovated. In 1974, the Mario Rimoldi Museum of Modern Art was opened and, in 1975, the “Rinaldo Zardini” Palaeontological Museum and the “Regole d’Ampezzo” Ethnographic Museum were opened. In 1999-2000, the roof and outside frescos were restored. The facades show the coats-of-arms of the single Regole d’Ampezzo.
  Museums in Cortina :
Museo d'Arte Moderna “Mario Rimoldi” - Cortina
Museo Paleontologico “Rinaldo Zardini” - Cortina
Museo Etnografico “Regole d'Ampezzo” - Cortina
Museums in Cortina
The three museums Cortina offers are all welcome in the old "Casa delle Regole" that you easily find because it is located right in the city centre along the pedestrian area (“Mario Rimoldi” Modern Art Museum, “Rinaldo Zardini” Palaeontological Museum, “Regole d’Ampezzo” Ethnographic Museum: Corso Italia, 69):
“Mario Rimoldi” Modern Art Museum, The modern art collection donated to the Regole d’Ampezzo by Rosa Braun Rimoldi is one of the most important in Italy. The collection began in 1923 and in subsequent years, Mario Rimoldi managed to put together paintings and sculptures of major 20th-cent. Italian artists. The collection includes 54 paintings by Filippo De Pisis, 32 works of Mario Sironi, 11 De Chirico and 6 Campigli. It also comprises works by: Carrà, Cesetti, Depero, Guidi, Guttuso, Martini, Morandi, Music, Rosai, Sassu, Savinio, Semeghini, Severini, Soffici, Tomea, Tosi, Vedova. The museum exhibits in turn over 400 works from the collection, but also paintings from other museums. Many museum works are loaned each year for prestigious international exhibitions.
Opening hours Winter season 2009/10
The museums are open from mid June to mid September and from December to Easter.
From January to Easter: 4 pm - 7.30 pm every day
“Rinaldo Zardini” Palaeontological Museum, The showcases of the palaeontological museum contain millions of years of history of life on Earth. A history visitors can well imagine by carefully strolling amid the many different shaped marine creatures which, petrified in time, testify to a period that began over 200 million years ago, when a calm tropical-like sea covered the Earth. This is one of the largest collections of fossils in existence today - shells of marine invertebrates, corals, sponges and fossils of numerous animals. The collection is the result of a systematic fossil search carried out by Ampezzo researcher Rinaldo Zardini throughout the Dolomite area. These fossils were then catalogued and organised into a collection that testifies to the geological evolution of the Dolomites.
Opening hours Winter season 2009/10
The museums are open from mid June to mid September and from December to Easter.
From January to Easter: 4 pm - 7.30 pm every day
“Regole d'Ampezzo” Ethnographic Museum, The museum houses old tools, implements and artefacts belonging to an agricultural-woodland-pastoral past. Crafted metal-working, from wrought iron to silver filigree, prized wooden objects finely inlaid with mother-of-pearl and metal wires, the traditional costumes of times gone by and the memories of historical events all testify to a legacy of traditions that have been passed down to us thanks to the wisdom of the people of Ampezzo who have always treasured the memory of their origins.
Opening hours Winter season 2009/10
The museums are open from mid June to mid September and from December to Easter.
From January to Easter: 4 pm - 7.30 pm every day