Ticino
Lugano District
Lugano

Museum of Cultures

The Museo delle Culture di 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.
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Photo: Alessia Borellini, CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • Opening hours:
    Wednesday—Monday: 11:00 AM—6:00 PM
    Tuesday: closed
  • Email: info@musec.ch
  • 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 Biblioteca del Museo delle Culture and MASI Lugano.

Library
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is a library.

Museum
Photo: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, CC BY 2.0.
The Swiss–Italian Art Museum, commonly known as , MASILugano or MASI, is an art museum predominantly featuring 20th-century and contemporary art in , Switzerland. is situated 330 metres north of Museum of Cultures.

Arts center
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is a polyfunctional cultural centre dedicated to music, visual and performance arts in , . It houses the Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana and hosts events such as "LuganoInScena" and "LuganoMusica". is situated 370 metres north of Museum of Cultures.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Paradiso and Sorengo.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Lugano in the in . It lies on the shore of and, although administratively independent of the , it is surrounded on all other sides by that city.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of in .

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is a lakeside city in , the Italian-speaking part of southern , and is the largest Italian-speaking city in Switzerland and outside Italy.

Museum of Cultures

Latitude
45.99635° or 45° 59′ 47″ north
Longitude
8.94665° or 8° 56′ 48″ east
Open location code
8FQCXWWW+GM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8909994253
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Wiki­data ID
Q665206
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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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Museum of Cultures”. Photo: Alessia Borellini, CC BY-SA 4.0.