Casa del Fascio eyed by Italian far right to become major art & architecture museum

2018-04-03T19:06:00-04:00

Italy’s far-right Lega party, which won almost 18% of the vote in the general election on 4 March and could form part of the next coalition government, wants to turn a former Fascist party headquarters in Como, in the Lombardy region, into northern Italy’s biggest museum of Modern art, architecture and design.

As reported by The Art Newspaper, the leader of Italy's newly empowered far-right Lega party, Matteo Salvini, has called in his manifesto, besides the expected anti-immigration, anti-European Union views, to create a grand museum of architecture, design, and modern art in the northern Italian city of Como — inside the Mussolini-commissioned 1936 former Casa del Fascio.

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Casa del Fascio eyed by Italian far right to become major art & architecture museum