Now the Bailo museum is complete, it is the new jewel of Treviso

The restoration of the second large wing has been inaugurated. The opening with ma shows on Canova in May

TREVISO. The dance museum it is now complete. The two cloisters of the ancient building that was a convent, school, warehouse and finally a museum are once again one with the end of the last intervention for the redevelopment of the north cloister. In all un journey that lasted years and cost eight million euros many of them put up by the administration. “A place for culture, for the people of Treviso, for everyone, a unique and spectacular environment” said the mayor with pride. Mario Conte cutting the ribbon and aiming to make Treviso “forge of ideas for relaunching culture after the pandemic”.

In the north room of the second cloister, intended for temporary exhibitions in the new project, were the frescoes found by Bailo have been restored and detached from Treviso buildings to then be positioned to decorate the environment. It is a fundamental testimony of what the idea of ​​the “Trevigiano Museum” was for the abbot. In fact, in the large room on the first floor you can find the inscriptions “History is also revealed in art”, the two portions of friezes from the former prisons that stood in Piazza San Vito, as underlined by the frieze “[Dalle] 1892 San Vito prisons demolished ”and the mottos“ Industry is coupled with art ”and“ Beauty in all its forms educate to good ”. From these fragments it is possible to understand how Luigi Bailo had created a real one decoration projecttaking advantage of the frescoes that gradually became more numerous and detached from public and private buildings in Treviso.

The design of the intervention was entirely sponsored by Arper Spa, testifying to the commitment of the Monastier company to culture and the territory. To make it happen a consortium of companies from Treviso for a collective effort for the benefit of the capital.

«Thanks to this intervention, the Bailo Museum takes on a national dimension, becoming an even more integrated pole with the City. Here you can enjoy the wonders on display, but also experience the city through the Museum, with its frescoes and its rooms “, the mayor’s words Mario Conte.

“The completion of the Bailo Museum with the renovation of the second cloister and the admitted sections was the first investment that we included in the public works program, aware of the importance of having a” complete “museum for the organization and management of artistic production of the Municipality of Treviso », affirms the commissioner for Public Works Sandro Zampese. “The restructuring of the north facade and the related green area, the two rooms intended for offices of the Carlini addition, already planned, will instead be the subject of a candidacy for the Mibact. I thank Studio Mas with the architect Marco Rapposelli and Gianluca Sampieri of the Public Works Sector for their important contribution “