Museo degli Sguardi. Raccolte Etnografiche di Rimini

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

Delfino Dinz Rialto’s collection already included, among many other artifacts from various regions of the world, several American objects gathered during the journeys undertaken by the merchant-explorer in various countries of the Americas. A small but significant collection of Brazilian Amazonian artefacts collected by Bruno Fusconi (1932–2022), an entrepreneur and lay missionary from Cesena, was donated in 2005. In the same year, on 7 March 2005 to be precise, the American collection was greatly enriched thanks to the donation of 514 archaeological artefacts that had belonged to Ugo Canepa (1915–2004), the property of the Fondazione Caterina Fileppo of Biella but already on deposit in Rimini since 1995. Today the museum can be visited by appointment.