Rimini museums

In 1972, the "Museum of Primitive Art-the Delfino Dinz Rialto Collection", was inaugurated in the Palazzo dell'Arengo e del Podestà in Rimini, a museum of outstanding originality dedicated to modernist 'Primitivism' (the end of the 19th century and the 20th century). In creating this museum in Rimini, the founder, Delfino Dinz Rialto (1920-1979), was greatly inspired by the "Museum of Primitive Art" in New York, founded in 1957 by Nelson Rockfeller, then governor of the city. The Museum, which became property of the Town Council in 1975, changed its name to "'Dinz Rialto' Museum of Primitive Art", and then, in 1988, after the Oceania and pre-Columbian sections were temporarily transferred to Palazzo Gambalunga, it was momentarily transferred to Castel Sismondo
where it took on the name of the "'Dinz Rialto' Museum of non-European Cultures". Eventually, in 2000, the Museum was closed to the public awaiting transfer to the new seat of Villa Alvarado at Covignano in Rimini, seat of the Museum of Graces of the Franciscan Missionary Friars since 1928.
The new establishment was done thanks to Antonio Aimi , Maurizio Biordi , Marcello Di Bella, Paolo Fabbri, Pierluigi Foschi, Laura Laurencich Minelli, Antonio Paolucci, Luigi Pezzoli e presieduto da Marc Augè (the director of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris).