MUA - MUSEI ALIANO
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Entity that manages the three museums in the town of Aliano: Via Collina, Palazzo Caporale and Pinacoteca Carlo Levi.
The MuA - Musei Aliano is the entity that manages all the museums of the city. They are located in three separate buildings.
In Via Collina, at the southern entrance to the city, is the house where Carlo Levi lived during his confinement. It overlooks the precipice that borders Aliano. The three rooms that can be visited are empty, but a multimedia installation projects on the white walls images and photographs of the period that evoke the life and daily life of Carlo Levi. On the lower floor, a small museum of rural life has been set up in the old oil press, whose stone millstone was powered by a donkey.
Next door, Palazzo Caporale houses the Paul Russotto Museum (1944-2014), a New York painter and master of abstract expressionism. Russotto remained deeply attached to Basilicata and to Aliano, his mother's hometown.
The Carlo Levi Art Gallery is located in Palazzo De Franchi (vico Secondo Umberto I, 13). Several of the artist's paintings are on display, as well as drawings and letters documenting his period of exile in Aliano. Of particular interest are the original lithographs of his novel Christ Stopped at Eboli, donated to the city by Carlo Levi himself.
Lovers of Carlo Levi's work should not miss the opportunity to visit his grave in the municipal cemetery overlooking the town. The sober tombstone is wedged between two brick walls, facing the precipice and the Basilicata plateaus.