Museums

Florence Academy Gallery: summer evening openings return, every Tuesday until 10 p.m.

From June 3 to July 22, 2025, the Accademia Gallery in Florence is extending its opening hours to the public for the summer. Every Tuesday, the museum will remain accessible until 10 p.m., with last admission at 9:15 p.m. The initiative, already posi...
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Three Phlegrean jewels reopen: Piscina Mirabilis, Cento Camerelle and Prigioni del Castello di Baia

As of May 31, 2025, three emblematic sites of the Campi Flegrei 's archaeological heritage will return permanently accessible to the public: the monumental Piscina Mirabilis, the ancient and articulated complex of the Hundred Chambers, and the histor...
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Boccioni masterpiece enters the collection of the Pinacoteca Divisionismo in Tortona. It will help cancer research

The Pinacoteca Divisionismo Tortona has enriched its permanent collection with a masterpiece by Umberto Boccioni (Reggio Calabria, 1882 - Verona, 1916): Mrs. Maffi. A Master of the Scene from 1909. The painting, made at a crucial moment in Boccioni's...
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The Rijksmuseum exhibits a rare 1800s condom with erotic printing. Perhaps a souvenir from a brothel

From June 3, 2025, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will exhibit a truly unusual object: a rare condom dating from the 1830s. Probably made from a sheep intestinal tract, this nearly two-hundred-year-old contraceptive is made all the more striking by an ...
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In Turin this fall, the future of museums will be discussed: at OGR, CIMAM's annual conference

For three days,Turin becomes the center of international debate on the evolution of contemporary art museums. From November 28-30, 2025, in fact, the city will host the 57th Annual Conference of CIMAM - International Committee for Museums and Collect...
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V&A East Storehouse opens in London, a museum-depot displaying more than half a million works

An exhibition space that challenges traditional models of museum enjoyment has opened in London. It is called the V&A East Storehouse(video presentation here) and is, technically, a warehouse although, the architecture, layout and principle gover...
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Milan Triennale buys a De Chirico swan and other works with Gucci's support

The collection of the Milan Triennale is enriched with new works thanks to the support of Gucci. Four, in particular, are the new acquisitions: these are works by Giorgio de Chirico, Franco Mazzucchelli, Marcello Maloberti and Luisa Lambri, the resul...
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Rome, VIVE's extraordinary evening openings return - Vittoriano and Palazzo Venezia, June 2

VIVE - a museum complex that includes the Vittoriano and Palazzo Venezia - is once again offering special evening openings of the Vittoriano. From June 2, 2025, on the occasion of the 79th Republic Day - an event that has the Altar of the Fatherland ...
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New York, Met reopens Rockefeller Wing: a journey through the arts of Africa, Ancient Americas and Oceania

A new era opens for New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art: after a four-year closure, theMichael C. Rockefeller Wing, or Rockefeller Wing, a nearly 4,000-square-foot exhibition area devoted entirely to the arts of Africa, the Americas, andOceania, is...
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Urbino's Ducal Palace, Duke's Studiolo reopened, restored and rebuilt to its original appearance

The Duke's Apartment, on the piano nobile of the Ducal Palace in Urbino, home of the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, reopened on May 30 after plant upgrades, restoration and rearrangement work. But above all, after two years of study and research an...
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Luni opens new national archaeological museum

The new National Archaeological Museum of Luni was inaugurated on May 29, 2025, in the presence of local authorities and representatives of the Ministry of Culture, the entity that manages the vast heritage of the ancient Roman colony of Luna. A cle...
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A new Centre Pompidou will be built in Brazil. It is scheduled to open in late 2027

A new Centre Pompidou will rise in Brazil: in fact, a memorandum of understanding has been signed between the Centre Pompidou and the State of Paraná (Brazil) for the creation of the Centre Pompidou x Paraná in Foz do Iguaçu. Th...
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Cathedral of Milan uses technology to counter online bagging

The Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano is among the first Italian cultural institutions to adopt Sensor, an innovative platform developed by technology company Evolution Group, to counter the phenomenon of online scalping and defend the integrity...
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Stupinigi, historic elevator restored, the "modern industry find" wanted by Queen Margaret

The historic elevator used in the early 20th century by Queen Margherita at the Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi has been restored and now becomes part of the tour route. It is a period artifact, referred to in documents of the period as a "modern fi...
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Brera Art Gallery works loaned to hospital: the Sassoferrato at Niguarda

The L'Arte che cura project, a new initiative to exhibit works of art in hospital spaces, has begun atNiguarda Hospital in Milan. The series of exhibitions, entitled The Guest, stems from an agreement signed in 2024 between the Niguarda Hospital Foun...
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Florence, Innocenti Museum's fresco gallery reopens to the public after decades

Reopened to the public after decades, the Gallery of Frescos at theIstituto degli Innocenti in Florence, part of the original building designed and built by Filippo Brunelleschi. Now this historic space is once again accessible to visitors, becoming ...
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