Museo Casa Console

entury building which houses the art museum is an exceptional example of refined local architecture; its origins are directly linked to the activities of Antonio Semadeni, a skilled and fortunate Poschiavian pastry chef who emigrated to Poland, who built it in 1856 in place of a previous old rural house.

His home in the center of the village of Poschiavo has always been called in popular language with the name of Casa Console, in memory of the function exercised abroad by its builder. The art museum wanted to keep the traditional name of the building where it is now located.

Inside the building, the original structures, the partially gilded grouting of the ceilings and various examples of Venetian polished stucco are particularly valuable. The external façade overlooking the main street inside the Borgo is also of a delightful nineteenth-century taste; in a niche on the first floor you can now admire a bronze statue of the French sculptor Ernest Barrias depicting the young Mozart tuning the violin.