Il Museo d’Arte Cinese ed Etnografico condivide la dimensione della vita legata al tempo in cui viviamo, ma ne propone anche un'altra. Non si vive solo "nel" tempo, si vive anche "con". Né il singolo, né le nazioni sono "isole".

The museum was founded in 1901 at the behest of Msgr. Guido M. Conforti, Bishop of Parma, who was thunderstruck by the beauty of some Chinese art objects that had been donated to him.

For Msgr. Conforti, animated by a “universal passion,” the Museum was to be an instrument to make China known. He expressed his thought with a motto: “making the world one family.”

The Museum is a testimony to the Institute's focus on various cultures that promoted it. As long as the Xaverians were only present in China, they collected materials of Chinese art:

pottery collection;
bronze collection;
paintings collection;
collection of objects made of ivory, wood, stone, jade;
numismatic collection;
and a whole range of heterogeneous ethnographic material: prints, shoes, stamps, brush-washers, jewelry, knick-knacks, screens, everyday objects, etc...

In that distant period, China was very distant and foreign to the Western world. Today, no part of the world is “far away” and, it should not remain “foreign” to us either.

The Museum houses evidence of art and life from many countries. Its mission remains the same: to make known a humanity without borders and rich in its diversity: not so much as a memory of the past, but as a wish for the future, to live “with the whole world.”

Address: Viale S. Martino, 8, 43123 Parma PR

For info : https://museocineseparma.org/it