MASI Lugano
The Swiss–Italian Art Museum, commonly known as MASI Lugano, MASILugano or MASI, is an art museum predominantly featuring 20th-century and contemporary art in Lugano, Switzerland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, CC BY 2.0.
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- Opening hours:
Monday: closed
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday: 11:00 AM—6:00 PM
Thursday: 11:00 AM—8:00 PM
Saturday, Sunday, and public holidays: 10:00 AM—6:00 PM - Email: info@masilugano.ch
- Type: Museum
- Description: art museum in Lugano (Switzerland)
- Also known as: “MASI”, “MASILugano”, “Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana”, “Museum of Art of Italian Switzerland”, and “Swiss–Italian Art Museum”
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Lugano Arte e Cultura and Santa Maria degli Angioli church.
Lugano Arte e Cultura
Arts center
Photo: Iopensa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lugano Arte e Cultura is a polyfunctional cultural centre dedicated to music, visual and performance arts in Lugano, Switzerland. It houses the Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana and hosts events such as "LuganoInScena" and "LuganoMusica".
Santa Maria degli Angioli church
Church
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Santa Maria degli Angioli church is situated 110 metres northeast of MASI Lugano.
Museum of Cultures
Museum
Photo: Alessia Borellini, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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. Museum of Cultures is situated 330 metres south of MASI Lugano.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lugano and Sorengo.
Lugano
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Lugano is a lakeside city in Ticino, the Italian-speaking part of southern Switzerland, and is the largest Italian-speaking city in Switzerland and outside Italy.
Sorengo
Village
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Sorengo is a municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Paradiso
Village
Photo: Pascalbrax, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Paradiso is a municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. It lies on the shore of Lake Lugano and, although administratively independent of the city of Lugano, it is surrounded on all other sides by that city.
MASI Lugano
- Categories: library, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Lugano, Lugano District, Ticino, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
45.99916° or 45° 59′ 57″ northLongitude
8.94818° or 8° 56′ 53″ eastOpen location code
8FQCXWXX+M7OpenStreetMap ID
node 3338354831OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q56875825
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Slovenian—“MASI Lugano” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “MASIԼուգանո”
- Armenian: “Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana”
- Esperanto: “MASI”
- Esperanto: “MASILugano”
- Esperanto: “Museo d’Arte della Svizzera Italiana”
- French: “MASILugano”
- French: “Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana”
- German: “Art Museum of Italian Switzerland”
- German: “MASILugano”
- German: “Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana”
- Indonesian: “Masilugano”
- Italian: “MASI”
- Italian: “MASILugano”
- Italian: “Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana”
- Slovenian: “MASI”
- Slovenian: “MASILugano”
- Slovenian: “Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana”
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