In 2004 the Civic Archaeological Museum was inaugurated in a building once devoted to the production of carbide. Subsequently the Museum of the the Contemporary World was created, in the main building of the former S.I.R.I. establishment. It contains a wide events area, a lecture hall with 250 seats and a sector library. The Museum contains the civic collection of works of art by 20th-century and contemporary Italian artists on the ground floor. On the first floor there is the Pinacotheca of old art and the Metelli and Felice collections. The layout is characterized by panels in plasterboard and lowered ceiling to redefine the volumes of the spaces and to distribute the lighting systems.
