Museo d’Arte Urbana Campidoglio

The MAU - Museum of Urban Art in Turin is the first project in the concrete realization phase, in Italy, with the aim of creating a permanent outdoor artistic settlement located within a large metropolitan center, with the added value of being an initiative that started in the first place.

from above but from the base, thanks to the consensus and the fundamental contribution of the inhabitants.  The original nucleus of the MAU is located in the Borgo Vecchio Campidoglio, a working-class neighborhood of the late 1800s, located between the Swiss, Appio Claudio and Tassoni streets, and the Fabrizi and Cibrario streets, not far from the city center.

A portion of urban space miraculously saved from the disembowelment operated by the Master Plan of 1959, which has kept almost intact its grid structure consisting of low houses with large inner courtyards with green areas, divided by narrow streets, and a strong presence of craft, commercial, artistic, social and entertainment activities, all to promote the relationship of commonality between the inhabitants and a type of settlement, in a semi-central area of Turin, such as to make it a "town in the city".