Museo Galleria del Premio Suzzara

Conceived in 1948 by Dino Villani, with the support of the mayor Tebe Mignoni and the writer and filmmaker Cesare Zavattini, the Suzzara Prize immediately distinguished itself for the composition of the jury, made up of gallery owners, historians and art critics but also by a worker , an employee and a farmer, and for the nature of the prizes, consisting of products of the earth or of the workers' hands.
The strong symbolic value was in equating the value of the products of artistic work, which became the property of the Municipality, with that of the products of human labour. In 1975 the Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art was born, recognized as a Museum in 2002. With an heritage of over eight hundred works, in continuous expansion through private donations and acquisitions from the Prize (still active, with a project in which companies are active part), the Suzzara Prize Museum Gallery is the most important collection of contemporary art in the province of Mantua.