Museo del Merletto
The Museo del Merletto in Rapallo opens a intimate window into a local craft with a broad reach. Established in 1990, the museum sits within the park named after Luigi Casale, occupying the lower floors of Villa Tigullio, a building owned by the municipality. The same villa also houses the municipal international public library on its upper floors, with internal stairs or an elevator linking the two cultural spaces without leaving the building. The collection is a meticulous archive: more than 1,400 lace pieces dating roughly from the 16th to the 20th century, many are rare and precious garments or individual lace motifs, complemented by about ten rapallo tomboli—the distinctive lace bobbins exported across the region—from the late 18th to the 19th century. …
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