The MACI, Contemporary Art Museum of Imperia , is an important Italian museum housed in Villa Faravelli , a building located in an intermediate position between the town of Porto Maurizio and that of Oneglia.

The origins of the Villa date back to 1938 when the Voltrese industrialist Umberto Faravelli active for some time in Imperia, he bought a lot of the property.

It was the engineer Francesco Muratorio who was commissioned as designer and construction manager. The construction of the first floor of Villa Faravelli ended in 1940 but only thanks to subsequent interventions are we able today to enjoy the current aspect of the Villa, with its sober and elegant architecture, attributable to a singular rationalizing neo-Renaissance lineage.

The MACI has had its headquarters in Villa Favarelli since 2016, but the building had already been inaugurated in 2005 with an important exhibition dedicated to George Baselitz.

Today, the MACI - Contemporary Art Museum of Imperia houses the modern art collection of the Genoese architect Lino Invernizzi , bequeathed to the city by his widow Maria Teresa Danè. The donation includes about seventy works by the protagonists of the Italian and international artistic panorama of the second half of the 20th century. Among the exhibited authors Victor Vasarely, Mario Radice, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Enzo Morlotti, Josef Albers, Marino Marini, Frantisek Kupka, Lucio Fontana, Piero Dorazio, Vittorio Tavernari, Carlo Nangeroni, Renato Birolli.