Ethnographic Museum of Rimini after closing in 2000, re-opened its doors to the public, this time in a villa in the area Alvardo Kovinyano. This is one of the main Italian museum entirely dedicated to the ethnological and archaeological aspects of the diverse peoples of Africa, Oceania, pre-Columbian America and parts of Asia. After its reopening in December 2005, the museum received a new name - "Rimini's ethnographic collection. Museo degli Sguardi. " The initiator of the renaming was a French anthropologist Marc Auger.

Today the museum's collection is a historic and very valuable from an architectural point of view of the building in 1721, the year of construction - villa, designed for Giovanni Antonio Alvarado, who was the personal secretary of the Spanish Emperor Charles VI in Italy .  The villa has been restored on the initiative of City Hall Rimini .  Today it holds about seven thousand artifacts belonging to the museum .  Interestingly, before the villa was part of another museum - delle Grazie, which was 1928, it was located in the Franciscan cloister .  It kept items collected Franciscan monks during their missions, some of which later became property of the Ethnographic Museum .  Especially valuable are the exhibits related to the history of pre-Columbian tribes of America, which in the set were scattered all over the vast American continent before its conquest by the Spaniards in the 16th century .  More recently, in the museum's collection were also transferred to priceless artifacts from the Amazon basin .