Gipsoteca Graziosi (Giuseppe Graziosi Plaster Cast Museum)
Initially housed in the former San Paolo convent school, the plaster cast museum was moved in 1994 to its current location on the ground floor of Palazzo dei Musei and can be visited on request during the opening times of the Civic Museum.
The group of about seventy plastic artworks is formed by terracotta maquettes, and plaster models, both original and copies, while the over two hundred pages that comprise the graphic nucleus feature drawings, etchings, aquatints and lithographs
The paintings come to just over ten and some of them, due to their large size, have been placed in the official rooms of Palazzo Comunale.
During the 1990s, the property of the fund was increased with the acquisition, by the museum, of some bronze statuettes and the complete series of Via Crucis engravings; Graziosi’s heirs also donated the artist’s photographic archive (today conserved at the Fondazione Fotografia di Modena) which he used as a working tool and comprises over 2,000 negatives
Opening hours
It opens on September from Tuesday to Friday 9 am - 12 pm adn on Saturday 10 am - 1 pm.
Tickets and admission
Visit the place of experiences and emotions: with the new combined ticket you can visit the Civic Museum, the Estense Gallery, the Graziosi Plaster Cast Gallery, and the immersive Avia Pervia room for a period of 365 days. The cost is €10 for the full-price ticket and €5 for the reduced ticket, reserved for visitors aged 18 to 25; admission is free for those under 18. It can be purchased at the ticket offices of the Estense Gallery and the Civic Museum, or online via the Midaticket platform.
