During the year, the Foundation resolved to use funds for institutional purposes in the amount of 2 billion 237 million lire. Of these, 147 million were allocated to the Fund for Volunteer Work.

A total of about forty projects were financed, its own and those of others, particularly in the sphere of the arts and culture, without losing sight, however, of other sectors such as welfare, charity and safeguarding the weaker social categories.

It is particularly interesting to note that, in the autumn of 1999, thanks to contributions made over a period of several years by the Foundation, three new museums were inaugurated: the Glauco Lombardi Museum, the Amedeo Bocchi Museum and the Fidenza Cathedral Museum.The total contributions allocated to their initiatives amounted to about 2.5 billion, 600 million and 650 million lire, respectively.

The Glauco Lombardi Museum was inaugurated on October 17, 1999, before Minister Antonio Maccanico, numerous other authorities and a large audience. The intervention of the Foundation made it possible to return this prestigious center of culture to the city. With its precious collection of works of art and souvenirs of the era of Napoleon and Maria Luigia, it is known and admired even beyond the borders of our country.

As of September 25, 1999, date of its inauguration, Parma has the Amedeo Bocchi Museum, organized by the Foundation, thanks to the donation of Rina Cabassi and Emilia Bocchi, in the ancient halls of Palazzo Sanvitale made available by the Monte Parma Bank. Amedeo Bocchi, a famous son of Parma, was one of the most important Italian painters in the 20th century and a museum devoted to his work has been unanimously acclaimed as an event of great cultural significance.

Thanks to a delicate operation of scientific restoration of the Matroneum in the north wing, one of the fundamental architectural structures of the Cathedral of Fidenza was saved. It is a monumental work by Antelami, of enormous historical value, on the itinerary of the via Francigena and the symbol of Fidenza. In this ideal location the Cathedral Museum finds a location worthy of the precious collection that can now be admired by visitors.