Live USA Today: 8 Lush Hudson Valley Museums Worth the Trip (And How to Reach Them From NYC)

The Hudson Valley’s newest kid on the block is another factory-turned-museum. Magazzino Italian Art, opened in 2017, is a shrine to postwar and contemporary Italian art. 

Housed in a 20,000-square-foot former computer manufacturing plant, Magazzino, which means warehouse in Italian, was co-founded by locals Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu to showcase their 450-piece collection. The spare, modern building with exposed industrial ceilings and cement floors may be austere, but it delights with playful surprises at every turn. That’s especially true of works from the Arte Povera, or “poor art,” movement of the mid-1960s and early 1970s.