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Stories, cultures
and tattoos.

The MAT75 is the world’s biggest permanent museum dedicated to the art of tattooing.

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Book a visit and discover how the art of tattooing has evolved over the years, from Ötzi (3500 years old) to the present day.

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MAT75
The world’s biggest tattoo museum.

MAT75 The world’s biggest tattoo museum.
  • Opening hours
    Opening hours

    Every day: 10pm - 9pm

  • How to reach us
    How to reach us

    Via Limidi 1025
    41019 Soliera MO

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A journey of 5300 years.

Ötzi: the man from the ice

Ötzi, or Similaun’s mummy, is perceived as a time traveller. Found intact, thanks to the preservation that had in the ice, shows on the body 61 tattoos.
The signs that it possesses are simple points, lines and crosses. Given the position they are assumed to have a curative or religious function (they could be pressure points for acupuncture).

Ötzi: the man from the ice

The Siberian tattoos.

Siberian tattoos have a very different meaning from the classic connotation that we now believe is usual.
Especially in prison they become an identity card, a philosophy of life or a story, to communicate silently with other inmates.
Each tattoo that was made in the community was unique and inimitable, we will never find two identical ones.

The Siberian tattoos.

The tattoo today.

The reasons for tattooing today are very far from those that by means of the tattoo marked the individual as a member or not of a tribe.
Only since the 1960s has the art of tattooing fascinated the common mentality.
Today, the tattoo is seen as a celebration of one’s own taste or way of being, or one’s own life events.
We are working today to bring out something inside us, turning it into a communication tool.

The tattoo today.
Ötzi: the man from the ice
The Siberian tattoos.
The tattoo today.
Ötzi: the man from the ice
The Siberian tattoos.
The tattoo today.
The collection

Memorabilia, Works and Pieces of History

The museum displays relics from all over the world and objects belonging to key figures for the growth of the art world

01

Signed Spider Man
da Spike Lee

02

Canotta Kobe Bryant
Original

03

SLASH's Guitar
Original

01

Signed Spider Man
da Spike Lee

02

Canotta Kobe Bryant
Original

03

SLASH's Guitar
Original

01

Signed Spider Man
da Spike Lee

02

Canotta Kobe Bryant
Original

03

SLASH's Guitar
Original

01

Signed Spider Man
da Spike Lee

02

Canotta Kobe Bryant
Original

03

SLASH's Guitar
Original

Signed Spider Man
Canotta Kobe Bryant
SLASH's Guitar
Signed Spider Man
Canotta Kobe Bryant
SLASH's Guitar
Signed Spider Man
Canotta Kobe Bryant
SLASH's Guitar
Signed Spider Man
Canotta Kobe Bryant
SLASH's Guitar
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