Museo Casa Siviero, owned by the Region of Tuscany, will be renovated and fully accessible

The Casa Siviero Museum, the 19th-century mansion on Lungarno Serristori in Florence that was inhabited by Rodolfo Siviero and that he donated to the Region, which is now home to the museum named after the famous “art detective,” will undergo a thorough renovation that will restore the practicability of all three floors and a total reorganization of the spaces. The project was presented by Tuscany Region President Eugenio Giani, who also explained its purpose and various stages that will start as early as May.

“The Casa Siviero museum is the only one owned by the Region of Tuscany, until the Villa di Careggi is added, and is the expression of the genius, talent and dedication to thepublic interest of antiquarian Rodolfo Siviero, who left his mansion to the Region in 1983, and this very year we commemorate the 40th anniversary of that decision,” said President Giani. “The Region has earmarked 3 million 700 thousand euros for this renovation and the goal is to inaugurate the restored environment in the spring of 2025. We also thank the Lions of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino and Scandicci: thanks to their commitment, one of the Museum’s works, the tondo of the Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine, will be restored and exhibited. Lastly, an interesting prospect that I have talked about with Mayor Nardella and we will work on it together: access to Casa Siviero and, therefore, to the whole Oltrarno, could be facilitated by the recovery of the passageway that exists inside the pescaia of San Niccolò which, unlike that of Santa Rosa, is not coincident with the walls, but is hollowed out. Once it is waterproofed and made pedestrian-friendly, buses could get to take people directly to the Serristori riverfront and to the Oltrarno. It would be an enrichment for the city in an effort to direct flows to more areas of tourist interest.”

At present, only the ground floor of the museum is open to the public, but the reorganization will make all floors accessible, making it possible to display all the movable property and works contained in the museum while maintaining the characteristics of the Casa Museo, as desired by Rodolfo Siviero.

The raised ground floor and second floor will be used as a museum to document the life and work of Rodolfo Siviero. The basement floor, which will be open especially to schoolchildren, will have a bookshop area, a checkroom, a room equipped with audio-video, a break area and a storage room for equipment needed for demonstrations and small events. On the second floor there will be two temporary lodgings, to be used, for example, by visiting scholars or researchers, with independent entrance from Lungarno Serristori.

Structural and stratigraphic investigations will begin by May to define structural and decorative aspects; verification and validation of the executive design is scheduled for June. In July, the bidding procedures that will identify the contractor for the work will begin.

The Casa Siviero Museum includes the collection of the collector’s works of art, including furniture, weapons, archaeological finds, Renaissance wooden statues, ancient reliquaries and works of art (of particular note is the 20th-century nucleus with works by De Chirico, Soffici, Manzù, Annigoni and Messina). The museum became the property of the Region of Tuscany in 1983 upon the death of Rodolfo Siviero by his own will, with the condition that the Region promote it.

Museo Casa Siviero, owned by the Region of Tuscany, will be renovated and fully accessible

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