The museum is located inside the Torre dei Bolognesi (a defensive bastion built in 1307) and describes the history of the Nonantola community from its origins to the present day.
Museums in the area
The Museums of Palazzo dei Pio are a coordinated system of three routes exhibition - Palace Museum , City Museum, Museo al deportato - into the prestigious spaces of the Renaissance Palazzo dei Pio to provide contextual placement , rational and structured approach to the vast and varied historical and artistic heritage of the collections, in an exhibition that aims to provide a comprehensive picture of the development and history of the city .
The collection of paintings and sculptures of Palazzo Foresti is one of the most representative of the Italian artists of the 19th and 20th centuries
The exhibition is divided up into two main routes, a palaeontological and a geo-mineralogical route with the addition of a shorter route on the subject of paleo-anthropology. It is designed according to didactic criteria; a general introduction on the subject matter followed by reference to finds in situ placed in the relevant reference environment.
The museum is developed in episodes, suggested by the actual place where they are set, along two main coordinates: time and space.
The Museum, established in 1996 and based in the castle of Spezzano, is a technological museum that tells the story of the production of ceramics linked to one of the most important ceramic tiles production district in the world
Founded in 1995, the Centre has a Museum Section and a Library Section.
The high and imposing brick façade surmounted by the tympanum is in line with the road perspective and is lined by two buildings of the same height: the Bishop’s Seminary and Palazzo Vellani.
The permanent exhibition of Renaissance dresses is housed in Palazzo Rangoni and is dedicated to poet Torquato Tasso who was guest of marquis Rangoni.
The Terramare were Bronze Age villages that sprang up in Emilia and in the central region of the Po valley around the middle of the second millennium B.C.
The Bertozzi & Casoni Museum is the first permanent contemporary art exhibition dedicated to ceramics. The exhibition is hosted in the hall on the ground floor of the Cavallerizza Ducale in Sassuolo
The Vistarino collection, owned by the Municipality of Sassuolo since 1991, is on display at the Documentation Center of the Italian Ceramic Tile Industry.
In the fall of 1980, on the shore of the Panaro river, in a place called Bocchirolo north-east to Savignano, Ezio Gamberini discovered an incomplete skeleton of an elephant.Now the archeological found is kept in the Civic Center of the town.
The intensive erosion that has affected the river Panaro in recent decades has brought to light major testimonies of numerous prehistoric sites and traces of historical times in the municipal areas of Spilamberto and San Cesario.
The Museum is located on the second floor of the Nonantola Palace of the Abbey. Here, visitors can admire ancient documents and the Abbey's treasures as well as explore the diocese's singular historical-artistic heritage.
The museum collects ceramic manufactures of the Bronze age ( XVII to XII century b.C.) and finds of the Iron age (IX to IV century b.C.), including an important deposit of ferrous copper bars used as a medium of exchange before the use of currency.