Figurine Museum - Santa Margherita Palace

Figurine Museum, unique of its kind, it was born in 2006 thanks to the collection of small color prints that in 1992 was donated to the Municipality of Modena by the Modenese entrepreneur Giuseppe Panini, founder in 1961, together with his brothers, of the company of the same name.

The collection brings together figurines but also materials related to technique and function: a heritage that allows you to retrace the evolution, as well as the production techniques, also of the purposes of the message contained in small advertisements, restoring the cultural and anthropological panorama, as well as the communicative evolution, in the context of the society in which they were produced.

The permanent collection of the Museum of the figurine can always be visited in conjunction with the current exhibitions.

The Figurine Museum is inaugurated on December 15, 2006, it is located inside Palazzo Santa Margherita, in Modena.

The figurine museum was born from the will and passion for collecting of Giuseppe Panini, founder of Edizioni Panini and creator of the renewal of the figurine in a modern sense, who wanted to validate his product through a history of the small print collecting, since the beginning of his entrepreneurial activity , hundreds of thousands of small prints from all over the world, similar to the figurine by technique or function.

The collection expanded to the point of becoming, in 1986, a museum located within the company itself.

In 1992 Giuseppe Panini decided, in agreement with the company and the Municipality of Modena, to donate the collection, which has become one of the most important in the world, to his city, elected the world capital of the figurine, and therefore the natural home of a museum that could document the origins and development up to the most modern production techniques.

In the following years the activity of the museum concentrated on cataloging the collection, consisting of about 500,000 specimens, on its expansion and its dissemination through publications and thematic exhibitions.

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