Museums

Siena celebrates the Old Man: a new exhibit at Santa Maria della Scala

More than six centuries after the birth of Lorenzo di Pietro, known as Vecchietta (Siena, 1410 - 1480), the Santa Maria della Scala Museum Complex in Siena pays tribute to the artist who worked there most profoundly, with a new exhibition dedicated t...
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Zayed National Museum opens in Abu Dhabi on Dec. 3, 2025

The Zayed National Museum, a national museum of the United Arab Emirates, will open its doors to the public on December 3, 2025. Located in Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Cultural District, which is home to some of the world's leading cultural institutions, th...
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Uffizi: Palazzo Pitti's Gallery of Modern Art becomes multisensory

From October 23, 2025, the Modern Art Gallery of Palazzo Pitti in Florence will be transformed into a multisensory museum with the project History between the Fingers, conceived by the Uffizi Galleries. The initiative proposes a new approach to the e...
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Villa Giulia's Nymphaeum once again becomes a theater for water: fountains reactivated after centuries

After centuries, the fountains of the Nymphaeum of Villa Giulia in Rome are finally gushing again. The complex designed by Bartolomeo Ammannati, one of the most extraordinary masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance, has regained its original function...
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The Villa Stuck Museum reopens renovated. Houses the largest collection of the artist's works in public ownership

After extensive renovations, Munich's Villa Stuck Museum, home to the largest collection of publicly owned works by Franz von Stuck, will reopen to the public on October 18, 2025. To mark the reopening, the historic Halls will undergo a thorough ren...
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At Brescia's Museum of the Risorgimento, four paths in VR to tell the story of the 19th century

The history of the Risorgimento meets virtual reality. Starting in October 2025, the Brescia Museum of the Risorgimento "Lioness of Italy" will offer four new immersive tours, brought together in the Risorgimento VR Experience project. This is an ini...
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Brescia Musei Foundation, the Risorgimento told through Virtual Reality

Fondazione Brescia Musei, in collaboration with Way Experience and Beside, presents the new immersive storytelling project dedicated to the enhancement of the Collections of the Museo del Risorgimento Leonessa d'Italia, reopened in 2023 after eight y...
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A new work for the Royal Palace of Caserta: acquired the Apotheosis of the Bourbons by Fedele Fischetti

The Reggia di Caserta welcomes back one of the most significant works of 18th-century Neapolitan painting thanks to an acquisition: The Apotheosis of the Bourbon Dynasty by Fedele Fischetti (Naples, 1732 - 1792), a classicist masterpiece and emblemat...
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SIRAMUSE, the multimedia museum of Syracuse stories in the heart of Ortigia, is born

Syracuse has a new museum. In fact, in the heart of Ortigia, just a few meters from Piazza Duomo, SIRAMUSE, the Multimedia Museum of the Stories of Syracuse, opens, a project that aims to restore a new identity and function to the Montevergini Comple...
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Art to heal: Ligurian Museums together with Genoa's Gaslini for children in care

Combining culture and health to improve the well-being of children and their families. This is the heart of A Relationship that Cures, the project that stems from the memorandum of understanding signed between the Ministry of Culture, through the Reg...
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Controversy in Flanders: government wants to close Belgium's longest-running contemporary art museum

There is controversy in Belgium over a proposal by the Flemish government to close Antwerp 's M HKA (Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp), the country's oldest museum institution dedicated to contemporary art. T...
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Vatican Museums, restored with tailor-made interventions ancient statues and sarcophagi of the Atrium of the Four Gates

Between 2023 and 2024, an extensive restoration project restored new splendor to a nucleus of extraordinary ancient works housed in the Vatican Museums, now visible in theAtrium of the Four Gates. Thanks to the support of the Florida Chapter of the P...
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Mattel has created a line of toys and objects in collaboration with New York's MoMA

New York 's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Mattel, the celebrated toy company, have announced a multi-year global partnership that aims to connect audiences to modern and contemporary art in new and unexpected ways. The agreement, announced Oct. 7, ...
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Colosseum opens Passage of Commodus to public after year-long restoration

In Rome, the Colosseum Archaeological Park opens for the first time to the public the so-called Passage of Commodus, a vaulted underground passageway, partially illuminated and ventilated by wolf's mouths, which in the imperial age connected the stag...
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Unesco opened the first virtual museum of stolen cultural objects

Three years after its official announcement during MONDIACULT 2022,UNESCO unveils an unprecedented project destined to make a profound impact on the landscape of cultural heritage protection: the Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects, the first v...
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London, Royal Academy announces expansion of Collection Gallery in Burlington Gardens

The Royal Academy of Arts in London announces an ambitious project to expand its Collection Gallery located in Burlington Gardens. The work will transform the current space into a majestic double-height gallery, designed by David Chipperfield Archite...
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