Open storage and visits with the director: what Constantine D'Orazio will do at the Gallery of Umbria

Open depositories, guided tours with the director and special attention reserved for the differently abled. These are the lines of action indicated by the new director of the National Gallery of Umbria, Costantino D’Orazio, who took office yesterday at the museum in Perugia (assuming also the leadership of the Regional Directorate of Museums of Umbria: therefore, all state museums in the region will depend on him). Three, in particular, are the keywords proposed by the new director: “Research,” “Accessibility,” and “Involvement.”

As far as openings are concerned, they will begin with the opening, as early as February, of the GNU’s storerooms and the Capitini rooms inside the Torre Campanaria of Palazzo dei Priori, home of the National Gallery, with guided tours by reservation, conducted personally by D’Orazio. The tour will allow to open places normally not accessible, and will also be an opportunity to cross the spaces experienced by the young Aldo Capitini and still able to make perceive, also thanks to literary and biographical suggestions, the traces of the ideas of the philosopher of nonviolence. The calendar is already ready: visits will take place on February 11 and 25, March 10 and 17, April 14 and 21, and May 5 and 19, always with double shifts (at 12 and 4 p.m.).

As for accessibility initiatives, paths for the visually impaired and workshops for people with autism spectrum disorders will also be created through NRP funds , and D’Orazio also lets it be known that work will be done on “the removal of architectural barriers” (an issue on which Marco Pierini ’s previous direction had also spent a great deal of time imagining a path between the halls accessible to all). The initiatives will be conducted in collaboration with the Regional Observatory for People with Disabilities.

in the deposits of the GNU

Costantino D’in the GNU repositories.

Space then turned to partnerships with area institutions. D’Orazio let it be known that already active collaborations with institutions in the area, such as the Region of Umbria, the Municipality of Perugia and all the municipalities of Umbria, superintendencies and public and private cultural institutions, as well as with cultural operators in the region, will be increased: among them, the Sacro Convento dei Frati Minori Conventuali, the Porziuncola Convent, the University of Perugia, the Perugia Academy of Fine Arts, the Foundations of the Umbrian Savings Banks, UmbriaJazz and UmbriaLibri, all of which the director said he has already established initial contacts with. Paths will then be opened with other entities such as the Carla Fendi Foundation of Spoleto, and the “San Costanzo Walk,” a path that will connect the National Gallery of Umbria to San Lorenzo Island, will be inaugurated on Jan. 29 in collaboration with the Archdiocese of Perugia-Città della Pieve.

“I would like to thank Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano and the Director General of Museums of the Ministry of Culture, Massimo Osanna,” said Costantino D’Orazio, “for the trust they have placed in me in giving me this assignment, which I welcome with enthusiasm and a deep sense of responsibility. The one I direct is first and foremost a structure called to constant work of research and enhancement of the cultural heritage entrusted to us: we will continue in the deepening of the values it represents, through study, restorations and exhibitions, such as the one dedicated to the Master of St. Francis, which will open to the public next March 10, an appointment of absolute excellence and of great interest for the promotion of the Umbrian territory.”

Open storage and visits with the director: what Constantine D'Orazio will do at the Gallery of Umbria

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