Biblioteca e Museo Civici di Pizzighettone

The first museum of Pizzighettone was founded in 1907 thanks to private donations. The most important group of works of art was offered by the antiquarian Joseph Favenza.   The museum was housed in the Tower of the Ford, one of the four towers of the castle of Pizzighettone, destroyed in the nineteenth century.   After April 25, 1945 the building was attacked and devastated by the population: the majority of the collections was lost or destroyed.   In 1969 was inaugurated the Municipal Cultural Centre, where even today are based library and civic museum: the museum was reopened and slowly reconstituted thanks to the paleontological material finds, archaeological and ancient weapons.   In the seventies and eighties it was established the section of contemporary art thanks to the efforts of the painter Enrico Della Torre, who collected numerous donations of Lombard artists.   Today the museum is divided into sections distributed in chronological and thematic criteria: paleontological section, prehistoric, Roman, weapons, art objects, contemporary art, of Pizzighettone monuments.