Twenty years of the Carlo Bilotti Museum: free opening and program of events at Villa Borghese

The Carlo Bilotti Museum, located in theVilla Borghese Orangery in Rome, is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its opening on May 10, 2006. To mark the occasion, on Friday, June 12, the institution is offering a special program of activities with free admission, extending its extraordinary opening hours until 9 p.m. The celebratory day is promoted by Roma Capitale, Assessorato alla Cultura e al Coordinamento delle iniziative ricondibili alla Giornata della Memoria, and the Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali, with the organization of museum services entrusted to Zètema Progetto Cultura. The event also coincides with the presentation of the museum in a renewed guise, following the conclusion of the works related to the PNRR Caput Mundi project, which involved the restoration, rehabilitation of the water system and lighting upgrading of the Nymphaeum, as well as a total redesign of the interior and exterior graphic and communication apparatus.

The day’s initiatives open in the morning at 11 a.m. with a guided tour of the temporary exhibition entitled Magic Lanterns. Photographs from the collection of Valerio De Paolis, conducted by curator Alessandra Mauro. The exhibition, also curated by Roberto Koch with Suleima Autore and organized by Cinema in collaboration with Contrasto, will remain open until Sept. 6 and brings together more than 100 shots by international performers such as Nobuyoshi Araki, Letizia Battaglia, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Elisabetta Catalano, Tracy Emin, Luigi Ghirri, Ren Hang, Candida Höfer, Dennis Hopper and Mimmo Jodice. To participate in this visit, reservations are required through the dedicated phone service, for a maximum limit of twenty-five participants.

The program continues in the afternoon, at 4:30 p.m., with a meeting focusing on the history of the Orangery Casino, a structure that owes its name to the reconstruction following the 1849 cannonade, when it was used as a winter shelter for citrus trees. The appointment is limited to a maximum of fifteen people with prior reservations required. In addition, throughout the day, a three-dimensional video contribution curated by the Roma Sotterranea association will be broadcast on the museum’s monitors, aimed at popularizing and discovering the ancient rooms located in the building’s basement.

In the evening, the event then moves inside the de Chirico Hall. Starting at 6:30 p.m., the musical project Singing landscapes is held, a performance for bass and guitar by Fabrizio Corso and Furio Valitutti focused on folk and jazz repertoire. Later, at 7:15 p.m., the same hall hosts a concert dedicated to the most famous soundtracks in film history, adapted for piano and flute and performed by composer and multi-instrumentalist Sergio Colicchio together with flutist Alessio Mancini. Both musical moments are free admission while seats last.

Twenty years of the Carlo Bilotti Museum: free opening and program of events at Villa Borghese

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