Primo Conti Museum

Primo Conti Museum

To visit the Primo Conti Museum is to get in touch with the personal artistic journey of painter Primo Umberto Conti (1900 – 1988), an artist of the twentieth century, an important exponent of the Futurist current, in contact with the most eminent personalities of the time, such as Pavolini, Viani, Rosai, Soffici and Carrà.

In 1980 Conti made his home, the fifteenth-century Villa Le Coste, the headquarters of the Foundation named after him, placing there not only, on the upper floor, an archive and a library (which have become today reference points for scholars of the twentieth century and, in particular, of Futurism), but also setting up on the ground floor a museum to house his works. Inside the Museum House, you can admire 66 paintings and one 163 drawings, ranging from 1911, his artistic debut year with the Self-Portrait, to 1985.

Also an integral part of the House-Museum is the villa’s garden, with its splendid views of the Mugnone valley and the family chapel, where the painter wanted to be buried together with his wife Munda, to rest forever near his works of art. The itinerary is developed in six rooms, starting from childhood/adolescence, passing through the discovery of Fauvism and the adherence to Futurism, and ending with the works of his last years, characterized by a strong geometric imprint.

Although not included in the itinerary, the artist’s studio deserves interest, in which it is sometimes possible to attend workshop activities, organized by the Museum itself.