Inside, there are about 200 paintings and sculptures by famous names, acclaimed by critics and the history of art.
The museum is named after Dino Formaggio, Emeritus Professor who worked in Padua as a professor of Aesthetics, Dean of Faculty, and Pro-Rector; it is indeed thanks to him that the collection and donation to the Municipality of Teolo of all the works present in the Museum have taken place.
Of the heritage of the Museum of Contemporary Art Dino Formaggio, all consisting of donations, two of significant size should be highlighted: the “Tito Gasparini” donation and the “Mauro Ancona” donation. The former arrived at the express wish of his wife Edvige, and includes twenty works of painting and sculpture by the artist from Pavia, which has constituted, since 1990, following a retrospective exhibition dedicated to him by the Municipality of Teolo, the main nucleus of the museum. The other important donation, made by Professor Marcello Ancona in memory of his son who died prematurely, includes twelve works of art among which stands out the bronze by Medardo Rosso, several oil paintings by Vincenzo Irolli, Angelo Dall’Oca Bianca, Beppe Ciardi, Francesco Paolo Michetti, as well as some canvases by local authors such as Neno Mori, Mario Disertori, Fulvio Pendini, Marco Novati, Achille Beltrame.
Among the other authors present in the Museum, it is worth mentioning the works of Attilio Rossi, Italo Valenti, Carmelo Cappello, the Russian Gugo Manizer, the Croatian Vilim Sveçniak – an academic from Zagreb and official painter of the leader of the former Yugoslavia Marshal Tito – Tono Zancanaro, the Mexican Julia Lopez, the French Sylvain Nuccio and A. Bartolomeo Trombini, Giandante X, along with a large representation of young and less young Venetian authors from recent decades.
