The National Museum of Ravenna gets a makeover: new layouts for seven rooms

New displays at the National Museum of Ravenna: seven rooms have in fact been renovated, four dedicated to painting, two to ceramics and one to devotional objects. The intervention is the result of a long work composed of multiple stages, from archival research to restoration, from agreements with institutions to the design of the new exhibition systems. The public will be able to walk through these rooms starting in the spring.

“It’s an ambitious project for a state museum,” explains director Emanuela Fiori, “but it was designed so that the arrival of Nicolò Rondinelli’s masterpiece, returned to the city thanks to the Ministry of Culture’s 100 Works Come Home project, would not be a wasted opportunity. By re-studying the paintings already present and signing important agreements with other autonomous national museum institutions, we have created a narrative that restores dignity to this collection of paintings that, though small, is a true excursus in Romagna art between the 15th and 18th centuries.”

In fact, the first four rooms house works relevant to painting in the area, such as the Resurrection painted by Luca Longhi, granted on a multi-year loan from the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna. “I have no doubt that it is a right choice for the enhancement of this masterpiece by the Ravenna master,” says Maria Luisa Pacelli, director of the Pinacoteca, “of whom the ideal completions of the Easter cycle, the Dead Christ supported by angels and the frescoes of the Deposition and Ascension are preserved in the city.”

In the next three rooms, the historiated ceramics, archaic majolica and devotional objects acquire greater prominence thanks to the display cases and the renewed lighting design. “There is no shortage of novelties here either,” emphasizes Giorgio Cozzolino, regional director of the Museums of Emilia-Romagna. “The collaboration with the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza has enabled the return to Ravenna of a series of majolica tiles, some of which were involved in the painful events of World War II. Then, thanks to the agreement with the Superintendence of Ravenna, a nucleus of ceramics from the excavation of the Church of S. Croce will also be exhibited, as well as small but valuable Renaissance textile testimonies become visible again in the last room.”

“In February, during the free days, we were pleased to welcome an enthusiastic public,” concludes Director Fiori, “made up mainly of Ravenna residents who greatly appreciated the new layout. I invite them, also taking advantage of the subscription card, to return to the Museum to see the full result.” The inauguration of the new sections is scheduled for March 19 at 11:30 a.m. in the presence of the directors of the Pinacoteca of Bologna, the International Museum of Ceramics of Faenza, the Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio of Ravenna,the Mayor and the Councillor for Culture of the Municipality of Ravenna. From March 20, citizens and tourists will be welcome to discover, or rediscover, the largest and most varied museum in Romagna.

The National Museum of Ravenna gets a makeover: new layouts for seven rooms

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