Museo Nivola

Museo Nivola was established in 1994, a few years after the death of Nivola (1911-1988), a native of Orani, and has been expanding ever since. The old wash house was specially restored by architects Peter Chermayeff and Umberto Floris to house the museum, inaugurated in 1995. The permanent collection boasts hundreds of sculptural and graphic pieces by Nivola, who played a unique role in 20th century modernism as an artist who worked closely with architects. Aside from exhibiting Nivola’s work, the museum produces temporary exhibitions on a regular basis. These center mainly on the relationship between art, architecture, and landscape, with a special focus on artists and movements that were close to Nivola, whose friends included Le Corbusier, Jackson Pollock, Saul Steinberg, Willem de Kooning, Alexander Calder and many other protagonists of mid-20th century art.