Museums

In Turin, a new experimental project with ASL introduces museum visit with doctor's prescription

A new experimental project promoted by ASLTO3, which introduces social prescription within museums, transforming art and culture into concrete tools to support the health and psychophysical well-being of citizens. The project, called Museo Benessere...
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MASI Lugano 2026: Korean video art, Schnyder and Kaari Upson among upcoming exhibitions

The Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana (MASI) in Lugano has unveiled its exhibition program for 2026, outlining a season that combines international proposals and insights into the local art scene. The calendar opens in spring with the group show K...
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From Baroque to myth: Borghese Gallery presents program 2026

The Borghese Gallery in Rome is preparing for a new year of activity with an exhibition program that confirms its commitment to keeping its collection accessible to a wide and diverse audience. Following the success of 2025, which saw the sale of 630...
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Florence, Accademia Gallery and Bargello reorganize. Here's how

New arrangement for an important nucleus of museums in Florence. The newly established Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze and Musei del Bargello museum system was unveiled yesterday, comprising seven venues and more than 50,632 works including sculpt...
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Marta Gallery, new home of Alfonso Leoni Archives, opens in Faenza

Faenza is preparing to welcome a new space dedicated to the memory and artistic production of Alfonso Leoni. On Jan. 25 at 10:30 a.m., Galleria Marta, the permanent home of the artist's Archive, will be inaugurated with an official presentation in th...
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Mantua, Ducal Palace acquires the only gold coin of the Papal States minted in the city of the Gonzagas

The Ducal Palace Museum in Mantua has enriched its collection with a singular object: a gold coin of the Papal States minted in the Gonzaga territory. The specimen, preserved and now on display in the Camera di Bacco, offers material evidence of a cr...
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Rijksmuseum to open new public garden dedicated to international sculpture thanks to major donation

Amajor donation from the Don Quixote Foundation will enable the Rijksmuseum to open a new public garden in Amsterdam dedicated to international sculpture. A green space with three pavilions, where the public will be able to admire works by world-reno...
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Genoa, lighting works at the Royal Palace and extraordinary opening of the First Noble Floor

A wide-ranging intervention for the Palazzo Reale museum in Genoa kicks off these days, with the start of work on the complete renovation of the lighting system. The initiative, financed with PNRR funds managed by the Ministry of Culture, aims to imp...
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Sudan Virtual Museum, cultural heritage online despite war, is born

The new year opens with a project of great symbolic and cultural value to Sudan and the international scientific community. On January 1, 2026, the online launch of the Sudan Virtual Museum, a digital platform dedicated to the knowledge, appreciation...
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Study unravels mystery unsolved since 18th century Fourcault taxidermy collection in Parma

The enigma shrouding the mysterious taxidermy collection of Father Jean Baptiste Fourcault, preserved at the Museum of Naturalistic Historiography of theUniversity of Parma - MUST, has been cleared up. An article just published in the journal Museolo...
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Colle di Val d'Elsa: experimental project involving people with frailty in civic museums kicks off

An experimental project born from the collaboration between the Municipality and the Mental Health Center will involve young people and adults followed by the Mental Health Center inwelcoming visitors andaccompanying them to discover the city's artis...
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Seismic safety, MiC funds Carditello Royal Site with more than 12 million

The Ministry of Culture has launched the implementation of the Grand Project "Carditello," allocating total funding of 12,458,491.86 euros to the Royal Site of Carditello, the important Bourbon palace. The intervention is part of the broader MiC prog...
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Borghese Gallery launches immersive visitor experiences with augmented reality

The Borghese Gallery in Rome presents Glances Beyond Time, a special project that will feature special openings until Feb. 27, 2026 to offer visitors animmersive visitor experience. The initiative was created with the aim of renewing the way of looki...
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Venice, museum tickets rise: Doge's Palace becomes a 35-euro bloodletting

Visiting the Doge's Palace in Venice, starting this 2026 that has just begun, will be a bloodletting: not that the ticket to the city's most visited site used to be cheap, but as of this year the Venice Civic Museums Foundation has decided on a 5 eur...
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The Royal Palace of Caserta reopens its restored Grand Fishpond after years

On Epiphany Day, the Royal Palace of Caserta returns one of its most evocative places to the Royal Park: the Peschiera Grande, in the heart of the Old Woods. After years marked by a complex and lengthy dispute with the first-ranked company in the bid...
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Donated 61 works by Matisse to the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris. They tell the story of the bond between the artist and his daughter

Sixty-one works by Henri Matisse are entering the collections of the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris thanks to a generous donation from Barbara Dauphin Duthuit, wife of Claude Duthuit, grandson of the famous painter. Following the Matisse et Mar...
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