Mu.S.T. - Museo di Tremosine

Tremosine's civic museum occupies Villa Paradiso, a liberty-style mansion at Pieve that served as the town hall until 1990. Seven rooms braid two stories together: the Great War as it pressed on the Alto Garda, and the slower history of a border community between mountain and lake.

Why it matters

The museum interprets the history and character of Tremosine, a mountain comune above Lake Garda. Mu.S.T. presents the mountain landscape, the lake, the Strada della Forra and the cableways that once connected shore and plateau. Three rooms treat the First World War in the Alto Garda, where the lake formed a strip of the front and the heights above it bristled with military roads; four rooms follow the territory, nature and community of Tremosine itself.

What to notice

• The First World War section includes photographs and objects connected with the Alto Garda’s wartime experience.
• Other rooms address the plateau’s geology, vegetation and human landscape, including terraces and transhumance routes.
• Villa Paradiso is an early-twentieth-century Liberty mansion whose stuccoes and interior decorations survive from its private period. Engineer Federico Cozzaglio designed it for the Morandi family; it later passed to the Benvenuti and Bernardelli families before the comune purchased it in 1966.
• The municipal archive in the former town hall preserves maps, projects and plans documenting changes in Tremosine, Campione and its port.

Context and history

Villa Paradiso carries the museum's own century. Built in the early 1900s in the liberty style, it passed from the Morandi family through the Benvenuti to the Bernardelli before the comune of Tremosine purchased it on 22 January 1966, and it housed the municipal offices until 1990, when the administration moved to the village centre. The villa’s civic history informs the museum’s account of the community. The Museo di Tremosine sul Garda, or Mu.S.T., brings together local history and the history of the First World War in the Alto Garda.