It is a cultural association born with the aim to defend and enhance Cortina's traditions. In particular way, to maintain and to develop the socio-linguist culture linked to the traditional Ladin language of the valley.
Three of the most important permanent exhibitions of the Dolomites have been housed for over twenty-five years in the Ciasa de ra Regoles, the historical building located in the very heart of Cortina, just beside the Scuola Sci Cortina. The entrance on Corso Italia is the same for the three Museums.
The Palaeontologic Museum "Rinaldo Zardini"
The Palaeontologic Museum “Rinaldo Zardini” hosts the most important Italian private collection of fossils dating from the Cassian period, i.e. from the geologic era ranging between 230 and 220 million years ago. In addition, the Museum recounts the extraordinary adventure of the life in the tropical seas, the Dolomites were born from, through the fossil evidence found in the rocks of our mountains. Two hundred million years are narrated by the traces which the land has given us and the scientific research is today able to interpret.
The Ethnographic Museum of Ampezzo
The Ethnographic Museum of the Ampezzo Valley collects the objects of our past, from rural life to domestic life, from the religious beliefs to the artistic expressions of the Ampezzo Valley. A small summary of the rustic and pastoral world of our valley in the past centuries, combined with feelings of refined artistic precision and objects from earlier periods, enhanced by the traditional costumes which are still shown off today on the most important occasions.
The Modern Art Museum “Mario Rimoldi”
The Modern Art Museum “Mario Rimoldi” exhibits one of the largest private collections of figurative arts of the Italian twentieth century school, with over 300 works of art by the major painters of the early 1900s: Campigli, De Chirico, De Pisis, Sironi, Guttuso, Morandi, Music, Savinio, Tomea, and many others.
The gallery exhibits the works of the collection by turns, together with paintings from other Museums and international art collections. The Museum plays a prominent role in the contemporary artistic panorama, for the quality of the works collected.
Ciasa de ra Regoles, Corso Italia
32043 Cortina d'Ampezzo (BL) Tel.+39 0436 2206 - fax 0436 2269
E-mail museo@regole.it
