Museo dei Tarocchi (Tarot Museum)

Northern Italy is home to the amazing Museo dei Tarocchi, a Tarot museum founded by Morena Poltronieri and Ernesto Fazioli. These two people met in Bologna, Italy in 1992 and became fast friends. Fazioli, who had been reading Tarot cards since 1989, was an expert tour guide and fluent in several key languages. Poltronieri was an avid collector of the Tarot and had been doing Tarot readings for others for decades. Together, they continued their study of the esoteric into the 21st century, moving their families to Riola, Italy in 1999.

When the Hermatena publishing house was founded in 2001, Poltronieri and Fazioli began some of the most imaginative and intriguing Tarot decks in the world. It was almost 4 years later before they began conversion of an old general store into what would become the world's foremost Tarot musuem. The process of converting a 400-year-old building into the Museo dei Tarocchi was labor-intensive but eventually paid off. Today, this enchanting building is as close as you can get to a Tarot paradise. Tarot enthusiasts from all over the world visit this place to view the largest single collection of Tarot decks of all kinds in the world.