Museo Civico Polironiano - Museum - Environments and Paths

The Polironiano Museum is located on the top floor of the Cloister of San Simeon, where once THERE WAS THE ABBOT'S APARTMENT, the monks' cells, the eighteenth-century library and the SCRIPTORIUM.
PLACES

Walking up the Barberini staircase and continuing along the corridor, you can meet the palace of the abbot, with traces of frescoes of the '500. It attaches to the apartment of the Gonzagas, dukes of Mantua. Then you can see the dormitory of the monks and the large monastic library erected in 1790 by Abbot Mauro Mari. The neoclassical architect Paolo Pozzo built a high and bright environment, preceded by a vestibule. On the walls are still visible signs of the shelves containing the unique heritage of the monastery library. Along the corridor you reach the intersection with the third corridor. In the intersection of these two corridors, there are traces of a Resurrection, frescoed by a painter of Mantegna’s school. The last corridor begins with a room that housed the desk of the '400.
VISIT PATH

In the environments described above can be visited today the collection of the Polironiano Museum, which opened Oct. 2, 2009. The first part (sections 1 - 15) of the new exhibition is devoted to material culture and rural society, and the second, which will include sections from 16 to 24, will be devoted to magic, folk religion, local legends and artistic expressions Po in the world and is currently underway
This exposition is placed to document and convey to visitors an overall view of society and the Po valley world today.
List of rooms from 1 to 15:

Room 1: The cultivation of cereals - corn and polenta
Room 2: The stable and The milk
Room 3: The Cheese
Room 4: The pig

Room 5: Rural society: the owners, artisans and proletarians
Room 8: Rural society: trades and crafts professions
Room 9: Rural society: men and
Room 10: The classroom

Room 11: The Childhood section
Room 12: The reclamation area in the valley
Room 13: The monastic tradition

Room 14: The library of the monastery
Room 15: The popular imaginary and The fairy tale
Room 16: The popular imaginary: The afterlife
Room 17: The popular imaginary: Animals, monsters, fantastic creatures, occult powers and magic
Room 18: Health and Disease. Empirical cures and remedies
Room 19: The need for protection, the popular devotion and superstitions
Room 20: Popular culture protagonists: Musicians, actors wandering, puppeteers
Room 21: Matilde di Canossa
Room 22: Ulisse Barbieri
Room 23: Umberto Bellintani
Room 24: The Po valley painters


Historical Collection - Museum's collection includes archaeological artifacts (clay materials, ceramics and stone convent) recovered during excavations in the monastery
Collection of antique farm carts – The Collection is one of the most representative carts collection.Farm carts from Reggio, Modena-Carpi, Bologna, Emilia Romagna, Ferrara, Mantua and Sicily are exposed.
CREDITS
COMUNE DI SAN BENEDETTO PO
MIBAC
REGIONE LOMBARDIA
PROVINCIA DI MANTOVA
FONDAZIONE CARIPLO
FONDAZIONE CARIVERONA
ALGOR ELETTRICA SNC
SIMPDEA
Museum Project: Giancorrado Barozzi
Collaboration and coordination: Federica Guidetti
Texts and scientific-educational supports: Giancorrado Barozzi e Federica Guidetti
Stand project: Associazione temporanea di professionisti Stefania Terenzoni e Cristian Prati
The person in charge of the proceedings: Florindo Lanfredi
Video: Zefiro film di Mario Piavoli – Globalmedia – My Sound
Documentary sources:
Archivio di Stato di Mantova
AESS Archivio di Etnografia e Storia Sociale – Regione Lombardia
Istituto Luce
Pierluigi Bonfatti Sabbioni
Michele Fasano
Luigi Ghiselieri
Fabio Grandi
Giuseppe Morandi
Preparation: Steelnova – Nereo Garrò – Elettroimpianti – Zero7 – Rinaldin – PhART
Promotion and communication: Pixelinside
Restoration and plant engineering
Progettazione e direzione lavori: Associazione temporanea di imprese e professionisti Franco Maffeis, Nicola Berlucchi, COPRAT, Stefano De Vito
Restauri: Ivan Marmiroli
Impianti di sicurezza: Algor Elettronica
Esecuzione lavori: CO.GE Costruzioni Generali – GT impianti


