The Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art in Prato is the first Italian institution designed from scratch with the aim of presenting, collecting, documenting and supporting artistic research in the visual and performing arts, cinema, music, architecture, design, fashion and literature. All expressions of the contemporary that bring people closer to the great themes of life and of our society.
Since opening in 1988 we have produced and hosted more than two hundred and fifty exhibitions and exhibition projects, organized special events and promoted educational initiatives for students and adults. We have also collected over a thousand works in our collection that map artistic trends from the 1960s onwards.
The complex that hosts us, designed by the rationalist architect Italo Gamberini and expanded in 2016 by Maurice Nio, is a city within a city: inside there are 3,000 square meters of exhibition rooms, an archive, the 60,000 volumes of the specialized CID / Arti library. Visuals, the auditorium-cinema, a bookshop, a restaurant, a bistro and an open-air theater.