The museum is housed in the building which was home to Raffaele Bendandi, who was from Faenza and who was an expert on seismology. In the building there is a collection of documents regarding seismological events, a library and a Seismological Observatory.Raffaele Bendandi was born in Faenza on 17th October 1893 and since his adolescence showed his unique character and keen enthusiasm for seismological events. When he finished primary school he worked with a watchmaker and then as a wood engraver, and never ignored the study of the great discov...
Museum of the Second World War and the Shoah. Organized by the historical re-enactment, research and dissemination group "Argylls Romagna Group" (dedicated to the soldiers of the 1st Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders)
The museum, which is run by the Torricelliana Society of Science and Literature of Faenza, is a collection of relics and papers of Evangelista Torricelli, a distinguished physicist, mathematician and scholar of geometry, a student of and successor to Galileo Galilei, famous, above all, for having invented the mercury barometer.The museum and library (with over two thousand volumes, cultural and scientific publications) are housed in two beautiful halls with frescoes in Palazzo Laderchi, and house relicts and “torricelliane” papers that make up the nucleus of the Faenza Exhibition of 1908, organized for celebrating the third centenary of the birth of this great physicist. The most significant objects in the museum are manuscripts signed by Torricelli and by contemporary scientists, barometers of the XIX and XX centuries and a replica of a ...
Guerrino Tramonti was born in Faenza, June 30, 1915. He has exhibited since his youth as a sculptor in regional and national exhibitions: in 1931, at the age of just sixteen, he won the "Rimini" in 1932 and 1934, the 1 "prize in the" Rubicon and "the city of Rimini . In his early twenties, in 1938, is awarded to the 1 st National Ceramics Competition organized by the city of Faenza.In this event is appreciated "the synthetic sincerity of certain figures," a group of works in clay and glazes made Albissola in "House of Arts", where for about a y...
In 1998 a permanent museum was opened in the historic rooms of the manufacture. It is open to the public and inside it is possible to admire a precious retrospective collection of the rarest pieces of pottery, realized by Riccardo Gatti since 1908, when he didn’t have his own workshop yet.The route in the museum goes on with the production which follows 1928, the year of foundation of the Gatti ceramics workshop. The pieces of work, relative to this period, represent a rich evidence of the collaboration relationships which Riccardo Gatti establ...
