Museo d'Arte Moderna Ugo Carà

Muggia's Ugo Carà Museum of Modern Art preserves a collection centred on the sculptor and designer born in the town in 1908. Its purpose-built home places twentieth-century art beside the remains of Muggia's historic defences.

Why it matters

Carà's donation to the municipality in 1999 established the core of a public collection spanning sculpture, works on paper and design. It connects the artist's varied practice with the community in which his career began.

What to notice

Works include the early ceramic Riposo, the painted Paesaggio and the wooden sculpture Alba. Design objects add another strand to the collection. Roberto Dambrosi and Starassociati's building combines teak and weathering steel, with light and adjustable internal divisions forming part of the exhibition architecture. Its relationship with the old wall and bastion places modern materials beside historic masonry.

Context and history

Carà's career included exhibition, sculpture and interior design, including work for passenger ships. He died in Trieste in 2004, before the museum opened in 2006. The collection and its architectural setting preserve a connection between Muggia, artistic production and the maritime world.