Carpaccio, Chagall, Accardi, but also structural interventions: the 2023 proposals of the Venice Civic Museums

Events yes, but also and above all strong structural interventions on the Civic Museums of Venice, to renovate them, make them more functional and welcoming. And a decisive investment in educational proposals, research, and services to citizens. Because, as Mayor Luigi Brugnaro says, “working on the future, investing in the younger generations, is vital for every city, but even more so for Venice and its metropolitan area.” Over the past five years, Venice’s Civic Museums have been visited by more than 13 million people and can count on self-generated resources that cover 96 percent of their financial economic needs. “This is a recognition of the work of efficiency, prudent management, ordinary and extraordinary maintenance and strategic investments that is, year after year, appreciated by the many visitors who daily visit the museum venues in the historic center and on the mainland,” said MUVE Foundation President Mariacristina Gribaudi. “A result achieved thanks to the people who are part of this incredible and articulated museum system where human capital is, and remains, our fundamental asset. In addition to the staff of conservators, curators and professionals in the various museum sectors, the Foundation has about 500 people who every day welcome and provide services and assistance to visitors who come from all over the world.”

To illustrate its 2023 proposals, the MUVE Foundation has produced an extensive booklet, also online for the public on the Foundation’s website. Each of the museum venues is featured with the exhibition proposals but also, and in many cases, with an illustration of the restoration and renovation work underway or planned for the coming months and the wide range of didactic or educational actions (in 2022 there were more than 2,000 appointments) offered to the city and visitors.

Among the various “structural” interventions are the new layout of the ground floor of Ca’ Rezzonico (which, renovated, will open in June), following the one just completed at the Fortuny Museum, the expansion of the Glass Museum in Murano, the new face of the Candiani Center in Mestre, and the opening of the Quadreria at the Doge’s Palace. Also, the monitoring of all the decorative apparatus of the Doge ’s Palace and the monitoring of the Clock Tower, which was entered among the four European Hyperion projects. Combined with in-depth opportunities such as the Centenary of the Giancarlo Ligabue Museum of Natural History and the various general catalogs of the collections.

The Venetian Museums are also the recipients of important donations. Received from, among others, the Glass Museum, Palazzo Mocenigo, and especially Ca’ Pesaro. Which in spring 2023 will celebrate the arrival of the Gemma De Angelis Testa donation, the most recent acquisition for the Gallery’s collections and, in terms of the extent and quality of the works, the most important since the de Lisi Usigli bequest in 1961.

The list of exhibitions planned by the different venues is articulated. Starting with the long-awaited monograph on Carpaccio at the Ducale, to Chagall. The Color of Dreams in the fall at the Candiani Center in Mestre. Moving on to Carla Accardi at the Correr, the major exhibition on 19th-century Venetian Portraiture at Ca’ Pesaro, to Rosalba Carriera ’s ivory miniatures at Ca’ Rezzonico, to Artefici del nostro tempo at Forte Marghera, where the Sculpture Park is taking shape.

The Candiani Cultural Center in Mestre will undergo extensive restyling. It is the goal for 2023 that the Mestre Museum will be able to present, alongside temporary exhibitions, a permanent selection of the works and authors most relevant to the critical consciousness of the city, as well as focuses dedicated to individual protagonists of the entire area of reference.

With the reopening to the public in 2017 of the renovated Forte Marghera space, a new project of the City of Venice in collaboration with the MUVE Foundation began to promote and enhance the heritage of contemporary art in the mainland to address a young audience in innovative ways. Along this line is the project to create, over time, a Park of sculptures made by national and international authors that can build, together with Fondazione Musei Civici, a new way of enjoying art in Forte Marghera. In the same vein is the new vigor imparted to the Mestre Painting Prize.

Also deserving of mention is the Vega.stock project, a space dedicated to the storage, study, and documentation of the museums’ art collections.

“Venetian” exhibitions are scheduled this year in three cities in the United States and in as many northern European capitals. But also in nearby Portogruaro where, from next October and until February 2024, the Bishop’s Palace will offer La Dogaressa, dedicated to female Venetian art. And as a reminder of the metropolitan dimension, on Museums in Celebration Days-February 26, March 8, April 13, June 11, 2023-all residents of the 44 municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Venice and Mogliano Veneto will find the doors of the Venice Civic Museums, related museums and temporary exhibitions included in the entrance fee to the permanent collections open.

“Our Museums also stand out for the contribution they are able to make to the in-depth study of history and the history of art and costume, thanks to the Bulletin, the catalogs raisonné and all their qualified publications,” commented Mayor Brugnaro.

Carpaccio, Chagall, Accardi, but also structural interventions: the 2023 proposals of the Venice Civic Museums

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