Museo degli Sguardi. Raccolte Etnografiche di Rimini

The museum was founded in 1972 in the Palazzo dell’Arengo e del Podestà under the name “Museo delle Arti Primitive – Raccolta Delfino Dinz Rialto”. Having become municipal property in 1975, and after a brief move to Palazzo Gambalunga, the museum was installed between 1988 and 2000 in Castel Sismondo, under the name “Museo Culture Extraeuropee ‘Dinz Rialto’”. After a period of closure, in 2005 the museum was reopened in its present location in Villa Alvarado (Covignano) with the new name “Museo degli Sguardi. Raccolte Etnografiche di Rimini”.

Already the collection of Delfino Dinz Rialto included American artifacts gathered during the journeys undertaken by the merchant–explorer in various countries of the Americas. A small but significant collection of artifacts from the Brazilian Amazon, gathered by Bruno Fusconi (1932–2022), an entrepreneur and lay missionary from Cesena, was donated in 2005. In the same year, on 7 March 2005, the American collection was greatly enriched thanks to the donation of 514 archaeological artifacts that had belonged to Ugo Canepa (1915–2004), owned by the Fondazione Caterina Fileppo of Biella, but already on loan to Rimini since 1995. Today the museum can be visited by appointment.