Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAM) (Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art)

Turin was the first city, with Florence, to open a seat for the collections of modern art. The first core of the Gallery was part of the civic museum instituted in 1863, who had also got the antique works of art later converged in the Palazzo Madama museum, in 1895 the modern works of art were moved to the pavilion of the 4th National Art Exhibition of 1880.

Gallery of Modern Art (GAM)

Demolished during World War II, the actual seat was projected by Carlo Boschetti and Goffredo Bassi, inaugurated in 1959, later renewed and enlarged during the last restoration (1981-1993).
A remarkable increase in the collections was due to the purchases (about a thousand works) from the Guido and Ettore De Fornaris' Foundation, constituted in 1982.

The property of the gallery is of 5,000 paintings, 400 sculptures and installations, drawings and engravings starting from the 18th century , photographs and photographical plates; it is mainly documented the Italian art, mainly Piedmontese, but there is also represented the historical international vanguards and the foreign art.