Museum of Cultures
The Museo delle Culture di Lugano was opened on 23 September 1989 with the aim of preserving most of the ethnic art collected by Serge Brignoni and coming in particular from the Far East, India, South-East Asia, Indonesia and Oceania.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Alessia Borellini, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: museum in Lugano (Switzerland)
- Also known as: “MUSEC”, “Museo delle Culture”, and “Museum of Cultures (MUSEC)”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Monte Brè and Villa Favorita.
Monte Brè
Peak
Monte Brè is a small mountain east of Lugano on the flank of Monte Boglia with a view of the bay of Lugano and the Pennine Alps and the Bernese Alps. It is considered one of the sunniest points in Switzerland.
Villa Favorita
Park
Photo: HAL 1967, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Villa Favorita is a park, which is situated 590 metres west of Museum of Cultures.
San Giorgio Parish Church
Church
Photo: Elvezio, Public domain.
San Giorgio Parish Church is situated 450 metres northwest of Museum of Cultures.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Castagnola and Aldesago.
Castagnola
Suburb
Photo: HAL 1967, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Castagnola is a village on the northern shore of Lake Lugano, below the mountain of Monte Brè, in the Swiss canton of Ticino. Politically the village forms part of the Castagnola-Cassarate quarter of the city of Lugano, although until 1972 Castagnola-Cassarate was an independent municipality under the name Castagnola.
Aldesago
Neighborhood
Aldesago is a village on the western slopes of the mountain of Monte Brè, in the Swiss canton of Ticino. Politically the village forms part of the Brè-Aldesago quarter of the city of Lugano, although until 1972 Brè-Aldesago was an independent municipality.
Cassarate
Suburb
Cassarate is a village on the northern shore of Lake Lugano, to the east of the outfall of the Cassarate River, in the Swiss canton of Ticino. Politically the village forms part of the Castagnola-Cassarate quarter of the city of Lugano, although until 1972 Castagnola-Cassarate was an independent municipality under the name Castagnola.
Museum of Cultures
- Categories: art museum, ethnographic museum, memory institution, museum of culture, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Lugano, Lugano District, Ticino, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Russian—“Museum of Cultures” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Լուգանոյի մշակույթների թանգարան”
- Armenian: “Մշակույթների թանգարան”
- Chinese: “卢加诺文化博物馆”
- Dutch: “Museum of Cultures”
- Egyptian Arabic: “متحف الثقافات”
- French: “Museo delle Culture”
- German: “MUSEC”
- German: “Museo delle Culture”
- German: “Museum der Kulturen Lugano (MUSEC)”
- Italian: “MUSEC”
- Italian: “Museo delle culture (MUSEC)”
- Italian: “Museo delle culture”
- Italian: “Villa Malpensata”
- Russian: “Музей культур”
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