The restored areas of the ancient and prestigious Palazzo Sanvitale houses the Museum dedicated to Amedeo Bocchi.
Born in Parma and Roman by adoption, he gave the art of the century that has just ended his imprint of dreamy and melancholic poetry, expressed in strongly evocative colours.

Created with the intention of promoting knowledge of the painter, the Museum displays a number of his most beautiful works. The heart of the collection was donated by his heirs to the Monte di Parma Foundation, which has subsequently developed this nucleus with further important acquisitions.

Opened in 1999, the Museum has been recently reorganised to give more space to the painter's works and to create an itinerary in which the visitor, isolated from the sounds of our contemporary world, can rediscover the intimate poetry of the world created by Bocchi. The arrangement with moveable panels inserted into metallic structures has made it possible to protect the important frescoes and the ancient plaster works that decorate the oldest wing of the palace, creating a means of supporting the lighting and the display system, and a background that brings the best out of each single work of art and enhances the didactic function of the Museum.
Following the chronologically arranged display, the visitor retraces the painter's private life, marked by the loved ones lost at an early age, and his artistic life, marked by endless luministic and aesthetic research, the essence of his artistic work.

Oil, water and pastel paintings, fresco works, drawings, sketches and sculptures gradually reveal Bocchi's artistic journey, in which it's possible to clearly perceive cultural references to the century that has just come to a close.
Portraits, nudes, religious themes, decorative designs for entire interiors, follow one another in the rooms, making it possible to retrace his professional and creative development and restoring the subtle changes in his style over time.