MUSE, Presentation Of The Building

As you will no doubt have noticed, the MUSE is located in an area away from the Buonconsiglio Castle and other historical monuments. Although there used to be a Michelin factory here, this was never an exclusively industrial area, and just a few meters from the museum you’ll find an important Renaissance building, Palazzo delle Albere, a countryside villa that belonged to a well-known local family. 

When he designed the new Science Museum, the architect Renzo Piano conceived the MUSE as the central feature of a wider urban and landscape redevelopment plan taking in the whole of the surrounding area, which was turned into a new residential neighborhood named “Le Albere”.

The neighborhood comprises residential buildings, commercial establishments, a hotel, a convention center and a public park. Although the MUSE is the most important building in the area, it is not a cumbersome presence, and thanks to its moderate height and the slanted lines of its volumes, it blends closely and smoothly with both the historical buildings and the natural environment around it....