FRAM - Franciacorta Rovato Arte Moderna e Contemporanea

A new museum for Franciacorta

In the Municipality of Rovato, in the province of Brescia, FRAM - Franciacorta Rovato Arte Moderna e Contemporanea opened its doors in 2026. This new museum is housed in a recently constructed building in the town's market area. It enriches the cultural offerings of Franciacorta, a region already renowned for its wines and landscapes, which now boasts an important art center.

A Half-Century Collection

The museum is the result of the work of Beppe Bonetti, a painter from Rovato and theorist of Metarationality, along with his wife Angela Maria Zucchetti, a poet and animal rights activist who passed away in 2024. Over more than fifty years of artistic activity, the couple collected works and art fragments acquired through exchanges with international colleagues and artists, which have now found a permanent home in Rovato.

The original core of the museum consists of 23 works by Gerolamo Calca (1878-1957), among the most significant of his output. Surrounding this body of work is a much larger collection, comprising approximately eighty modern and contemporary artists, including painters and sculptors.

More Than Just Exhibitions

FRAM hosts a permanent selection of works by Beppe Bonetti, tracing the main stages of his artistic research, and a space dedicated to temporary exhibitions curated by the Bonetti Zucchetti Foundation, which manages the facility in agreement with the Municipality of Rovato. The museum is complemented by a bookstore, a specialized library with catalogs and publications of the featured artists, an archive for the preservation of more delicate materials, and a multimedia room, designed as a connecting point between the different sections of the exhibition.