Museo d'Arte Cinese ed Etnografico di Parma
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General Visit Itinerary
The Museum of Chinese and Ethnographic Art of the Xaverian Missionaries of Parma was founded in 1901 at the behest of Bishop Guido M. Conforti, the founder of the congregation. For over a century, missionaries active in China and later in other countries around the world collected and sent to Parma works of art, everyday life instruments, ritual artifacts, and cultural testimonies from distant peoples. The result is a collection organized into two main areas: Chinese art and ethnography, the latter encompassing materials from China, Africa, and the Amazon region. A museum that is not merely a container of objects, but a living document of the encounter between different cultures.
The Chinese and Ethnographic Museum of the Xaverians of Parma was founded in 1901 at the behest of Guido M. Conforti. The initial core of the collection was donated by Senator Lampertico at the end of the Universal Exhibition of Turin in 1898. For decades, missionaries in China periodically sent objects of art and local life to Parma, until 1947, when the communist takeover put an end to the Xaverian mission in the country. From the 1960s onwards, the museum was enriched with ethnographic materials from Asia, Africa and Latin America, becoming a testimony to three continents.
Opening hours
Open: Tuesday to Saturday, from 9am to 1pm, and from 3pm to 7pm
and Sunday, from 3pm to 7pm
Closed: Monday and national holidays
Tickets
Standard / Regular: € 5.00
Reduced / Under 18: € 2.00
Itineraries
General Visit Itinerary
The Museum of Chinese and Ethnographic Art of the Xaverian Missionaries of Parma was founded in 1901 at the behest of Bishop Guido M. Conforti, the founder of the congregation. For over a century, missionaries active in China and later in other countries around the world collected and sent to Parma works of art, everyday life instruments, ritual artifacts, and cultural testimonies from distant peoples. The result is a collection organized into two main areas: Chinese art and ethnography, the latter encompassing materials from China, Africa, and the Amazon region. A museum that is not merely a container of objects, but a living document of the encounter between different cultures.
