Come and visit us from 5th to 12th September 2010 at Università on line E-Campus (via Isimbardi 10, Novedrate – Como), where the Educational Silk Museum is on display on the occasion of the XXVI Mostra Internazionale del Pizzo, an exhibition aiming at protecting and spreading the ancient local tradition which is deeply rooted in our region.  http://www.comune.novedrate.co.it

Open all August from Tuesday to Friday, 09.00-12.00 am 03.00-06.00 pm, the Museum receives a huge numbers of visitors from Europe, Italy and the rest of the world.

Bank data of the Associazione per il Museo della seta di Como have changed.

Please contact the Museum for the new Iban code, call 0039 (0)31 303180 or write to info@museosetacomo.com

The Educational Silk Museum reopens to its visitors from Tuesday 27th July, after the closing period due to the work in progress enlarging the Museum seat.

The Museum re-opening is postponed until Tuesday 27th July because of work in progress in the Museum seat. Once such work has finished, the dimensions of the Museum are going to double and, as a consequence, the permanent exhibition is going to be improved and enriched with new machines and exhibits which are now stored in the Museum warehouses.

Due to work in progress to enlarge the Museum surface, from 5th until 17th July the Educational Silk Museum will be closed to visitors.

On Tuesday 25th May 2010 at 8.30 p.m. the Board of Directors of  the Fahion Department of Confartigianato Imprese Como met at the Educational Silk Museum (Via Castelnuovo 9, Como) in order to discuss the topics on their agenda.

Before starting their meeting, they visited the Museum and admired its original working machines covering the whole silk manufacturing process.

On Thursday May 20th, in the afternoon, the Province Councillor Mr Pietro Cinquesanti, together with Engineer Bruno Tarantola and the members of the whole Commission, visited the building yard relative to the enlargement of the Museum surface.

Particularly, the Commission - which was composed of its President Roberto Cigardi, the Vice President Maria Rita Livio, the Advisors Cornelia Borsoi, Dario Di Lorenzo, Serafino Grassi, Enrico Manzoni, Giordano Minotti e Luigi Pecorelli, - was accompanied in the building yard by Architect Rosalba Giani and Engineer Giuseppe Auguadro.

A large number of the most qualified Italian textiles industrialists meets at PROPOSTE, the word preview of furnishing fabrics and curtains, specialised fair where exhibitors share the qualification of their companies and products, their professional fairness, their commitment to research and experimentation in the field of aesthetics and in that of technologies.
Visitors to PROPOSTE access the fair only if invited by the Operative Secretariat of the same fair, and rigorously chosen among the following categories: Textile editors, Producers of upholstered furniture, Wholesalers, Wide distribution chains, Converters, Contract operators.

The exhibiting location is Villa Erba in Cernobbio (Como - Italy). www.propostefair.it
 

Due to the suspension of the electrical energy - as communicated by ENEL - , on 6th april 2010 the Museum will close from 9.00 to 12.00 a.m.

ISAL - Istituto per la Storia dell’Arte Lombarda – is carrying out a research on Silk Production in Lombardy from the 15th Century to year 2000, which is expected to end in 2015 after numerous exhibitions and cultural events.

In particular, the first phase of the project is centred on the Duchy of Milan and culminates with the exhibition entitled “Seta Oro Cremisi – Segreti e tecnologia alla corte dei Visconti e degli Sforza” (Silk Gold Crimson – Secrets and technology at the court of the Viscontis and Sforzas), which opened on 28th October 2009 and ended few days ago.

We are pleased to inform you that Professor Chiara Buss, Director of Applied Arts at ISAL and Curator of the exhibition, is coming to Como for a series of conferences centred on a particular theme.

Here is the agenda of the meetings which taking place in March:

11th March  at 6.00 pm: “Fabrics made of silk and gold in the Duchy: the complete process in an exchange from the Black Sea to London.”

18th March at 6.00 pm: “Craftsmen, entrepreneurs, bankers, princes and artists: their profile in silk fabrics.”

25th March at 6.00 pm: “Girelli da Letto: a mysterious love story.”

The three conferences will be held at Villa del Grumello, via Cernobbio 11 (Como).

The Chemistry Laboratory of the Educational Silk Museum is ready to be reopened to all visitors in April. The laboratory, which is an important part of the Museum educational offer, reveals and refreshes a number of precious exhibits making it become even more specialised and rich. Particularly, it is possible to admire devices for chemistry tests, an extractor hood used for chemical reactions, a vast collection of aniline dyes, a “star” steamer for samples, high-level instruments, technological devices and various materials.

The Dvd on textile dialect, the interesting initiative promoted by Associazione La Stecca of Como, is also available at the Educational Silk Museum, in via Castelnuovo, 9

For further information www.museosetacomo.com and www.lasteccadicomo.org