Museums

On Lake Como, a permanent work at Villa Carlotta dedicated to women who cannot realize their dreams

A new permanent intervention has been created for the Villa Carlotta Botanical Museum and Garden in Tremezzina, on Lake Como: it is To the women who are not allowed to fulfill their dreams! / To all those women who are not allowed to fulfill their dr...
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Construction sites at the Royal Museums of Turin: more than 28 million for accessibility, restoration and security

The extensive program of interventions that is affecting the entire Royal Museums of Turin complex continues, with worksites active on several fronts, from the Royal Palace to the Sabauda Gallery, from the Library to the Armory, from the Royal Garden...
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At Kyiv Pavilion 13 reopens with Шубін, the new site responsive project by artist Sam Lewitt

In Kyiv, Ukraine, Pavilion 13 reopens its doors with a new identity: from a former industrial pavilion dedicated to coal mining in Soviet times, it is now transformed into a contemporary art center. Inaugurating this new phase is a site responsive pr...
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The Great War Museum in Gorizia reopens with a new accessible and multilingual exhibit

The Great War Museum in Gorizia reopened to the public on Thursday, July 17, after an articulated structural and museographic redevelopment involving the entire exhibition itinerary. The initiative is part of the GO! 2025 program linked to Nova Goric...
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The Morandi House Museum in Grizzana Morandi (Bologna) officially reopens after restoration.

The Morandi House Museum in Grizzana Morandi (Bologna) will officially reopen its doors to the public on Saturday, July 19, 2025, at 6 p.m., after a restoration project that restored the rooms to theiroriginal appearance, the one Giorgio Morandi hims...
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Giovanni Sassu is the new director of the Cento Museums

As of Aug. 1, 2025, art historian John Sassu will take over as director of the Municipal Museums of Cento, taking over the leadership of the Emilian city's cultural institutions. Sassu will also be in charge of Cultural Services and the Heritage Stud...
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The Sun by Pellizza da Volpedo: the Pinacoteca di Tortona exhibits the artist's early work

Beginning Sept. 13, 2025, the Pinacoteca Divisionismo in Tortona will welcome a new work by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, The Sun (study), an oil on canvas that anticipates the painting of the same name preserved at the National Gallery of Modern and...
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Minister Giuli chooses new five super-directors: here's who they are

Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli announced overnight the appointments of new first-rank directors for the five major museums that had been without a guide for months and for which a call for applications had been opened in March. These choices, made...
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Sustainability in museum bookshops: a dedicated webinar on July 22

How to promote environmental sustainability in museum bookshops? The answer to this question during a national webinar, open to the public and free of charge, to be held on July 22 at 4 p.m. to present the M.A.D.E. project - Museums, Artshops, Design...
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Venice's Gallerie dell'Accademia inaugurates Multimedia Space with 3D digital microscope

The Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice unveiled the new Multimedia Space, an interactive space that allows visitors to access never-before-seen content related to the museum's Scientific and Restoration Laboratories. This new environment represents a ...
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Who were the spectators and what did they do at the Colosseum? A new museum section opened in the hypogea

The Colosseum Archaeological Park has opened a new museum section inside the hypogea of the Flavian Amphitheater, thus completing the overall museographic project of the Colosseum's undergrounds, curated by Alfonsina Russo, Federica Rinaldi and Barba...
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Florence, Medici Riccardi Palace's marble museum gets a makeover 20 years after opening

Twenty years after it was opened to the public, the Marble Museum in Florence 's Medici Riccardi Palace is presented with a new layout that reorganizes the entire exhibition itinerary inaugurated in 2005. The intervention, curated by the MUS.E Founda...
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Five Italian museums chronicle Buddhist art with art historians and Dharma masters

Five Italian museums are virtually opening their collections toBuddhist art for an initiative that unites art history, Buddhist spirituality and the Eastern cultural heritage preserved in Italy. It was presented in recent hours Buddhist Art in Italia...
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MIPAM network is born, bringing together Italian museums with collections from around the world

MIPAM - Musei Italiani con Patrimonio dal Mondo (Italian Museums with World Heritage), a new national network designed to bring together and bring into dialogue Italian museums that conserve and enhance collections from the Americas, Asia, Africa an...
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Mantua, Ducal Palace seeks patrons with Art Bonus for two major new projects

Two new cultural projects have been launched by the Ducal Palace of Mantua through the national Art Bonus portal. These are initiatives aimed at the preservation, enhancement and sharing of works fundamental to the memory and artistic identity of the...
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A virtual trip to Brunelleschi's dome with "Building the Impossible"

Starting July 10, Florence is hosting a new cultural experience dedicated to one of the absolute masterpieces of the Renaissance: the Dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore designed by Filippo Brunelleschi. Entitled Brunelleschi's Dome - Buil...
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