The building, for half a century the center of artistic production and meeting place for intellectuals such as Gabriele D'Annunzio, Luigi Pirandello, and Giovanni Pascoli, was donated to the Comune of Pescara in 1966 by the heirs of Cascella.

[4] After taking part in the exhibitions in Turin (1884), Venice (1887) and London (1888), Basilio Cascella bought land in the Porta Nuova area in 1895 from the Comune of Pescara to build a painting, lithography, and related arts studio, attached to his home.

[8] A literary circle gradually developed around the studio, and also through the magazines L'illustrazione meridionale and La Grande Illustrazione, including Luigi Pirandello, Umberto Saba, Gennaro Finamore [it], Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Sibilla Aleramo, Matilde Serao, Grazia Deledda, Ada Negri, Guido Gozzano, and Giovanni Pascoli.

The original structure has been significantly expanded over the years through the inclusion of works signed by Andrea and Pietro Cascella, sons of Tommaso and grandsons of Basilio.

[15] A prominent position is occupied by Basilio Cascella's masterpiece entitled Il bagno della pastora (1903), which depicts a young shepherdess in a typically Abruzzese bucolic setting.

[17] Inside the museum, in addition to original furniture of the time, there are sketches, lithographic stones that served for the famous engravings and numbers of L'illustrazione abruzzese, La Grande Illustrazione, and the Divine Comedy, among others.

[18][failed verification] Some creations of Pietro Cascella are presented with the author's first name only, because of his stylistic choices in contrast with the tastes of the progenitor Basilio, who initially forbade his grandson to use the family name.