The Palace dates back to the early 16th century, owned by Cassotti Mazzoleni family, before passing to the Mosconi and lastly to the Bassani-Rathgeb family. Despite the additions carried out in the 18th and 19th centuries the complex looks harmonious and elengant with its "Isabellesques" form outlooking the courtyards on the overlooking the internal gardens sheltered from the street traffic. The sequence of small rooms, clarly designed for living purposes, represented both a limit, but also a complex structure in wich to create the museum itinerary ... a museum with an extremely strong didactic-explanatory mission, where the acquisition of knowledge predominates over the aesthetic enjoyment linked to most museums in Italy. The lighting project was designed to blend with the extremely composite and articulate structure, owing to the alternation of small rooms and large frescoed halls with particularly high ceilings, a series of loggias and porticoes, crypts and long basement passages. The complexity of the project was increased by the differing nature of the works on display in terms of their forms and materials and different conservation requirement. The lighting system had to be extremely flexible, able to meet different lighting engineering requirements but preserving a uniform, composed and consistent image determined the choise of light source: halogen lamps for all the museums´ spaces. (FLARE, 25, December 2000)