Museums

Naples, Royal Palace launches its own interactive app

In Naples, the Royal Palace takes an important step toward digital innovation with the launch of a new mobile application that offers visitors a completely new and interactive visitor experience. Thanks to this new technology, anyone who crosses the ...
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Italian museums attract the world: two out of three visitors are foreigners

Italian museums are increasingly speaking foreign languages. In fact, two out of three visitors come from abroad, with a clear prevalence of U.S., British and Spanish tourists. This is one of the most relevant data to emerge from theMidaTicket Big Da...
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Rome's G/N/A/M/C introduces timed ticket: three hours to "meet the crowding index"

News for visitors to the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome: In a press note, GNAM, or rather, G/N/A/M/C, as the museum a few months ago decided to update its name with a view to emphasizing the inclusive and modern nature of the...
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Carditello reborn: 27 million from MiC for final recovery. "We will be the Venaria of the south."

The Royal Site of Carditello is preparing for its final relaunch thanks to a 27 million euro grant allocated by the Ministry of Culture. These resources are in addition to the 30 million already announced last May, in the aftermath of Minister Gennar...
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The restoration of the Rocca di Dozza: the rediscovered Hall of Arms and Great Hall

With the interventions held between 2022 and 2024, the restoration of the Hall of Arms (Sept. 12, 2022) and the Great Hall (March 27, 2024) of the Rocca in the village of Dozza, positioned in the territory between Imola and Bologna, were completed. ...
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The Pecci Center of Prato presents the 2025 program: exhibitions and culture to build community

The cultural and artistic program for 2025 of the Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art in Prato was presented. Present at the press conference were President Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, Prato Mayor Ilaria Bugetti, and General Director Stefano Collicelli ...
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Uffizi Chair is born: free art lessons for all at the Uffizi Galleries

A place of culture not only for the conservation and exhibition of works, but also for the transmission of knowledge: with this goal, the Uffizi Galleries inaugurates the Uffizi Chair, a project that brings to the Florentine museum a true academic co...
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Faenza's Pinacoteca Comunale has new, environmentally friendly lighting

Enhancement of the artistic heritage, tradition and technological innovation: these are the key words that best represent the Luci sull'Arte Faenza program, which has seen a new lighting system for the Pinacoteca Comunale di Faenza, the oldest museum...
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New museum opens in Naples: Casa Museo Murolo, dedicated to Neapolitan musical tradition

Naples is enriched with a new cultural venue: the "Mu" - Murolo House Museum, a space entirely dedicated to the great Neapolitan musical tradition, opens in the Vomero. The museum is located in the historic home that was home to the poet Ernesto Muro...
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The ship Alkedo, the flagship of the Museum of Ancient Ships in Pisa

It was most likely called Alkedo, meaning "alcyone," the name of a bird typical of sea areas. And it is probably the best known of the Roman ships discovered around Pisa. A large ship made of holm oak and pine wrecked in the first century A.D., a riv...
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Important purchase by the National Gallery of the Marches: the Santini Codex returns to the Ducal Palace

The Santini Codex joins the collection of the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche. This precious manuscript, dating from between 1480 and 1530, was originally part of the library of the Montefeltro family and later to that of the Della Rovere family, as ...
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Official Giacomo Casanova Museum to open in Venice, at Zaguri Palace

In 2025 Venice will celebrate one of its most illustrious sons with the opening of the Museo Ufficiale Giacomo Casanova at Palazzo Zaguri in the heart of the city. Sponsored by the Giacomo Casanova Foundation, now headed by President Mauro Rigoni, th...
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Mantua, Palazzo Te turns 500: here is the program of celebrations among exhibitions and restorations

Mantua is preparing to celebrate an extraordinary anniversary: the 500th anniversary of Te Palace, Giulio Romano 's masterpiece and symbol of the Gonzaga family's greatness. In 1525, Federico II Gonzaga commissioned the brilliant architect to build a...
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Mindfulness, art therapy, ArtUp: practicing them in museums reduces anxiety and stress

The results that emerged from research within the ASBA (Anxiety, Stress, Brain-friendly museum, Approach - The museum ally of the brain against anxiety and stress) project, the brainchild of Annalisa Banzi, a researcher at CESPEB (Centro Studi sulla ...
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The Museo Storico delle Aviotruppe in Pisa: a journey through the history of Italian military parachuting

Located inside the Gamerra Barracks, the Pisa Airborne Museum is a landmark for all military history enthusiasts and for anyone who wants to learn more about the strategic role and sacrifice of Italian paratroop units. It is a very special, rare muse...
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Prato, Maestro di Mezzana's triptych enters exhibition itinerary at Palazzo Pretorio Museum

The Museum of Palazzo Pretorio in Prato has been enriched in its exhibition itinerary by a 14th-century masterpiece, thanks to the purchase of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Prato: it is the Madonna Enthroned with Child between Saints Ludovico ...
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