An international petition for Anna Coliva: asking the ministry to lift the suspension

by Redazione , published on 07/05/2018
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International petition starts to ask MiBACT to reinstate Anna Coliva, director of the Borghese Gallery. Hundreds of signatures already collected.

An international petition has started on Change.org to ask the Ministry of Cultural Heritage to cancel the suspension of Anna Coliva, the director of the Borghese Gallery in Rome, who in recent days suffered a sixty-day suspension from her post following the aggravated fraud trial she has been facing since late February. The ministry’s measure, however, seemed excessive to most, since no ruling has yet come from the court handling the case.

The petition was launched by David Jaffe, senior curator of the National Gallery in London. The text states that the amount of any harm caused by Anna Coliva, even if established, is “overshadowed by the exceptional work Anna Coliva has done at the museum through her many years of experience. This unfair accusation does not consider the accumulation of hundreds of hours of overtime, necessary to earn the trust of lenders and scholars, a full-time commitment that has allowed both Anna Coliva and her team to make the Borghese Gallery a tourist attractor of Italian art and culture.” The petitioners are therefore calling for “the immediate reinstatement of Anna Coliva in the role of director of the Borghese Gallery,” as well as to reconsider the charges and await the outcome of the trial, “instigated anonymously, against a director who has raised more than twelve million euros in the past twelve years, among various economic and non-economic successes achieved in the name of the Italian community.”

The text of the petition, which has so far garnered over 1,500 signatures, can be read online at Change.org.

An international petition for Anna Coliva: asking the ministry to lift the suspension
An international petition for Anna Coliva: asking the ministry to lift the suspension


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