Arte in Calabria Collection
The MAON is the only museum with permanent collections of artists born in Calabria in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The 19th century collection includes, among others: Giuseppe Benassai, Andrea Cefaly sr, Rubens Santoro, Giuseppe Cosenza, Salvatore Petruolo, Enrico Salfi, Giuseppe Renda, Rocco Milanesi, Francesco and Vincenzo Jerace, Francis la Monaca, Gaele Covelli.
Among the 20th century artists: Umberto Boccioni, Antonio Marasco, Enzo Benedetto, Angelo Savelli, Domenico Colao, Maria Grandinetti Mancuso, Andrea Alfano, Giuseppe Rito, Achille Capizzano, Mimmo Rotella, Luigi Di Sarro, Francesco Guerrieri, Aldo Turchiaro, Sergio Ruffolo, Nunzio Solendo, Giuseppe Gallo, Alfredo Pirri, Luigi Magli, Cesare Berlingeri, Giulio Telarico, Anna Romanello, Francesco Correggia, Mario Parentela, Francesco Lupinacci, Antonio Pujia Veneziano, Salvatore Dominelli, Pietro Perrone.
Works by non-Calabrian artists, both Italian and foreign, linked in some way to Calabria, such as: Carmine Di Ruggiero, Luciano Caruso, Toni Ferro, Vinicio Berti, Marlis Nussbaumer, Alejandro Garcia, Bijan Bassiri, have also been acquired.
In 2004 Reginald Green donated to the Museum the model of the monument "Children's bell tower", which stands in Bodega Bay in California, the work of the American sculptor Bruce Hasson and dedicated to the memory of his son Nicolas Green, killed in Calabria by the mafia in 1994.
