Fondazione Pesenti, as a Founding Member, has supported the Fondazione Bergamo nella Storia since its establishment in 2002, sharing its goals of protecting, promoting, and enhancing the artistic and historical heritage of the city and surrounding territory.
The foundation’s main project is the Museum of the Stories of Bergamo, a distributed historical museum spread across multiple locations that tells the evolution of the city and its territory over the centuries from political, economic, social, and cultural perspectives.
The six sites of the Museum of the Stories network are:
The Convento di San Francesco, where the Foundation has its headquarters along with an exhibition space for temporary shows.
Just a few steps from Piazza Vecchia, visitors can admire a fine example of medieval convent architecture: the Cloister of the Arches, the Well Cloister, and the Chapter House tell the long history of this building through fresco cycles created between the 14th and 17th centuries. The panoramic terrace offers views over the meeting point of the Brembana and Seriana valleys.
The Palazzo del Podestà, housing the Museum of the 1500s.
On the ground floor, visitors encounter Roman Bergamo through archaeological excavations, then ascend to the first floor to admire the Renaissance courtyard frescoes.
Here is located the Museum of the 1500s, a multimedia and interactive journey filled with images, sounds, and impressions of life in the 16th century among ancient palaces and convents, noble families vying for power, merchants seeking fortune, and great military leaders serving the Republic of Venice.
The Campanone in Piazza Vecchia.
The civic tower, known as the Campanone, stands 52.76 meters tall and offers panoramic views over the old city. At the top of the tower is the largest bell in Lombardy, which rings one hundred strokes every evening at 10:00 PM to signal the closing of the city gates along the walls during Venetian rule.
The Rocca, hosting the Museum of the 1800s.
A 14th-century fortress, the Rocca complex still shows clear signs of its military function over the centuries: from the patrol walkway to the sally port, to the bombers’ house, now home to the Museum of the 1800s.
The Donizetti Museum.
Located on the first floor of the Domus Magna, behind Santa Maria Maggiore, this museum is dedicated to the life, work, and personality of Gaetano Donizetti. It offers a fascinating journey through autograph scores, portraits, letters, and personal objects of the great composer.
The Tower of the Fallen in the Piacentinian center.
SBeyond the gate of Porta Nuova, in the heart of the lower city, stands the monument dedicated to the memory of those who fell in the Great War. Inside, a captivating itinerary tells the story of the birth of the Piacentinian center and the life of the city around the Tower, which has become a symbol of modern Bergamo.
Six locations, each with its own identity but linked by a unified and organic project: narrating the entire history of Bergamo — from the Roman era to the 20th century — through its stories.
www.museodellestorie.bergamo.it