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PART - Palazzi dell’Arte Rimini is equipped with a new outdoor section, thanks to an original open-air museum project and a new body of contemporary art works linked to the San Patrignano Collection.

Conceived as an extension of the PART exhibition itinerary, inaugurated in September 2020, the Garden, which is accessible for free, transforms the public area, historically belonging to the old public oven, into a combination of contemporary art and nature. The museographic project starts from the idea of enhancing the historical memory by recalling with green shrub-like walls the layput of the ancient oven of the city, which existed until 1898 and of which some visible elements still remain.

Within the perimeter of the garden, which interprets a current version of a typical Italian garden and evokes the idea of 'ruin' in the intertwining of natural component in the wall, visitors discover a selection of contemporary art sculptures set up in "outdoor expositive rooms “.
Following a fluid and unconstrained path that extends the PART experience outside the museum walls, the Garden creates a new opportunity to relate to art, in meditation corners surrounded by greenery.

Seven sculptures inhabit the Garden: these are works donated to the San Patrignano Collection, on loan for use by galleries or international artists, as well as site-specific installations, as in the case of Paul Kneale's work which, standing more than three meters high among the vegetation, seems almost a particular tree species. ‘The dog’ by Alberto Garutti, donated by the artist to the San Patrignano Collection, it is literally what the title describes: a bench with a dog sitting on one side. The roots and branches of trees emerge from a block of white Carrara marble: it is ‘Anatomia’ (2011) by Giuseppe Penone, a work loaned by the artist and given on loan for use by the Gagosian gallery. ‘Lancia di Luce I’ ‘ (1985) made in bronze by Arnaldo Pomodoro points towards infinity and refers to a cosmic journey, as well as sculpture, always in bronze, by the German artist Kiki Smith, ‘Stella I’(2013), promoted by the Lorcan O'Neill gallery. The Polish artist Piotr Uklanski participates with a large-scale installation in steel tubes and paint, ‘Untitled (The Thing)’ (2007), which draws the profile of an open hand that seems to grasp the surrounding landscape. The loaned work of the Chinese Chen Zhen is set up to reconstruct a "garden in the garden", a metaphor for a lost beauty, by installing five bronze and metal plates whose reliefs represent the history of the park of the Qianlong Emperor built in the mid-1700s; the work is entitled ‘Jardin mémorable’ (2000) and is given on loan for use by the Galleria Continua.

The museographic project, conceived and created by Luca Cipelletti's Studio AR.CH.IT together with the lighting project curated by Studio Pasetti Lighting, which had already signed the functional redevelopment project and the preparation of the Museum PART, is inspired by the planimetric division of the oven that favors the contemplation of sculptures and makes the Garden capable of hosting events and meetings, as well as permanent and temporary exhibitions.

The area extends for 1,675 square meters and is characterized by a stretch of water placed inline with the meeting point between the Palazzo dell’Arengo and that of the Podestà. The walkway is made up of San Marino stone cubes and solid terracotta bricks, and is divided into different rooms to house the sculptures. The spaces include benches, whose angular structure generates continuity with the structures of the architectural environment inside the PART, and the planting of 345 yew hedges and new trees, thus increasing the amount of vertical green.

Opening time:
in Winter: from Tuesday to Friday from 9.30am to 1.00pm. and from 4pm to 7 pm - Saturdays, Sundays and non-working days from 10.00am to 7.00pm.
in Summer (from 1st June to 31st August):  Tuesday to Sunday and holidays 10 am-7pm; summer evening openings Wednesday and Friday 9pm - 11pm
Closed on working Mondays.