Museums

Inclusion and accessibility at the Diocesan Museum in Milan: art speaks four languages

A museum that not only exhibits works, but also questions who is looking at them, how to make them accessible and what inclusion really means. With Nessuno Escluso, the Carlo Maria Martini Diocesan Museum in Milan strengthens its vocation to be an op...
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The Museo delle Sinopie in Pisa: journey into a unique heritage

There are stories that emerge through tragedy and images that surface only when the material covering them is forcefully ripped away. Such is the case with the sinopias of Pisa's Monumental Cemetery: works that were never meant to appear, and which t...
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Florence, reopens Villa La Quiete garden, Medici masterpiece and treasure trove of 18th-century botany

For the first time in its history, the historic Garden of Villa La Quiete opens its doors to the public. A secret place, a precious 18th-century treasure chest hidden in the greenery of the Castello district in Florence, the garden represents one of ...
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Trento Science Museum launches suspended ticket to make museum accessible to all

MUSE - Trento 's Museum of Science launches the "suspended ticket," a new project designed to boost cultural participation and make its activities usable by an increasingly wide audience. The initiative is supported thanks to funds raised through 5&t...
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Uffizi, restored Stanzino delle Matematiche: a treasure among science, art and history rediscovered

At the Uffizi finally reopens to the public the Stanzino delle Matematiche, a small room of very high symbolic and historical value, completely restored and returned to its original meaning. Located next to Buontalenti's famous Tribuna, this space ha...
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Naples, reopens redeveloped and restored Virgil and Leopardi Tomb Park

The renovated tour route of the Park of the Tombs of Virgil and Leopardi in Naples was inaugurated today in the presence of Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli. The inauguration was attended, among others, by Director General of the Museums Massimo Osa...
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Tivoli, Villa d'Este reopens after more than 50 years of closure and two of restoration its Grotto of Diana

After being closed for more than 50 years, the Grotto of Diana at Villa d'Este in Tivoli will become accessible to visitors again starting May 6. The nymphaeum has been completely restored in a two-year intervention thanks to a collaboration between ...
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Lucca, unveiled the project for the new Lucca Center for the Arts. Over ten million euro investment

The Lucca ETS Center for the Arts Foundation today unveiled plans to create the new Lucca Center for the Arts, a museum hub with an international scope designed to host high-level exhibitions and events. The initiative aims to enrich and complete the...
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Sienese Museums Foundation launches "Culture doesn't age" project designed for senior citizens

Population aging is one of the most discussed social issues of our century, impacting many areas of daily life, from health care to culture. In Italy, a country with one of the oldest populations in Europe, the issue of the well-being of the over-70s...
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Turin, a roof for the Egyptian Museum's baroque courtyard: €4 million soft loan granted

The Istituto per il Credito Sportivo e Culturale S.p.A., a public bank for the sustainable development of the country through Sport and Culture, has granted a subsidized loan of 4 million euros for the construction of the roofing of the Baroque court...
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In Genoa, one of the most beautiful noble villas becomes a new hub for art and culture

The Palazzo Foundation, the new Third Sector entity established with the aim of restoring and enhancing Villa Pallavicino delle Peschiere, one of the city's most beautiful noble residences, was presented today in Genoa . The foundation, established b...
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The National Museum of Chiusi and the National Museum of Taranto sign an agreement: start with an exhibition on Andromeda

A link between past and present unites the National Archaeological Museum in Taranto and the National Etruscan Museum in Chiusi. Two female figures, Penelope and Andromeda, serve as a common thread in an initiative to exchange and enhance archaeologi...
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Genoa, a new national museum is born: Palazzo Raggio, purchased by the Ministry of Culture

An important new museum is born in Genoa . The Ministry of Culture has in fact purchased Palazzo Raggio in Largo della Zecca in the Ligurian capital: it will become home to the National Gallery of Liguria now housed on the second and third floors of ...
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Greek Wreckage Museum to be born in Gela: set-up to begin

Work will kick off on Thursday, April 3, at 11 a.m., on the setting up of the Greek Wrecks Museum in Gela (Caltanissetta), which will be built within the Bosco Littorio area. The museum was entirely financed by theRegional Department of Cultural Heri...
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New MAXXI Foundation president officially appointed: she is Maria Emanuela Bruni

Maria Emanuela Bruni is the new President of the MAXXI Foundation, officially appointed on Friday, March 28, by Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli, following the constant support guaranteed to MAXXI during the regency period that began last September,...
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MACAM, a large new contemporary art museum, opens in Lisbon. Which incorporates a hotel

Lisbon 's cultural and artistic scene is being enriched with an important new addition: the Museu de Arte Contemporânea Armando Martins (MACAM) opened its doors to the public on March 22. The museum was born from the private collection of Arman...
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