Palazzo Mazzetti is the most beautiful noble residence of the Eighteenth century in Asti. Located in the old town, along Corso Alfieri, the main street of medieval times, the building is at the center of a path of great interest, which tells the city and the territory thematically through sites of historical and artistic interest. Started in the last quarter of the Seventeenth century and enlarged according to the project of the architect Benedetto Alfieri in the years 1751-1752, the palace hosted over the centuries personalities such as Giacomo Stuart (1717), the king of Sardinia Carlo Emanuele III (1727) and Napoleon I (1805).

Purchased in 2000 by the Foundation Cassa di Risparmio di Asti, with the aim of creating an important cultural attraction center, the palace was returned to the city in December 2011, completely restored and with a renewed arrangement of the civic collections and spaces for temporary exhibitions. Equipped with a bookshop, educational room, conference hall, library, archives, storage rooms, cafeteria, touch screens, and multimedia projections, the ancient residence is full of suggestions. Walking through the building, from the underground floor to the top floor that houses the eighteenth and nineteenth-century paintings and sculptures, you can grasp significant elements of historical and construction events and, through the museum arrangement, understand the formation of collections from the late nineteenth century to the present day.