Ethnographic Museum Rimini after closing in 2000, the year has again opened its doors to the public, this time in the Villa, Alvardo in the area Covignano. This is one of the main Italian museums entirely devoted to ethnological and archaeological aspects of the diverse peoples of Africa, Oceania, pre-Columbian America and partly Asia. After its re-opening in December 2005, the Museum received a new name – "Ethnographic collection Rimini. The Museum degli Sguardi". The initiator of this renaming was a French anthropologist Marc Auger.

Today the Museum's collections are housed in old and very valuable from an architectural point of view, building 1721 year built Villa, designed by Giovanni Antonio Alvarado, who was private Secretary to the Spanish Emperor Charles VI in Italy. The Villa was renovated on the initiative of municipality of Rimini. Now it holds about seven thousand artefacts the Museum. Interestingly, before the Villa was part of another Museum Delle Grazie, which since 1928-the year was located in a Franciscan gallery. It contained items collected by Franciscan friars during their missions, some of which later became the property of the ethnographic Museum. Especially valuable are exhibits relating to the history of the tribes of pre-Columbian America who were scattered throughout the vast American continent prior to its conquest by the Spanish in the 16th century. Recently in the Museum's collection were also transferred to priceless artifacts from the Amazon basin.