Rosario Anzalone is the new director of the Regional Directorate National Museums of Lombardy

Rosario Anzalone is the new director of the Regional Directorate National Museums of Lombardy. He succeeds Emanuela Daffra, who has taken over as superintendent of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence, an institute for which, in recent months, he was already interim head.

Anzalone, 42, a classical archaeologist, completed his studies between Italy and Greece, with significant excavation and research experience in Sicily and Crete. In 2016-2017 he was visiting curator at the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe. Hired at the Ministry of Culture in 2017, he was responsible for the National Etruscan Museum and archaeological area of Kainua (Marzabotto, BO) and the archaeological area of Roman Veleia (Lugagnano Val d’Arda, PC). He has worked as curator of archaeological collections at the Royal Museums of Turin since 2020. A tenured manager since 2024, he is in his first management position.

In his new role, the newly appointed director is expected to manage the directorate’s 13 museums: the Museo del Cenacolo in Milan, the Cappella Espiatoria in Monza, the Certosa in Pavia, the Museo Archeologico Nazionale della Lomellina in Vigevano, the Parco Archeologico ed Antiquarium in Castelseprio, Palazzo Besta in Teglio, the Villa Romana and Antiquarium in Desenzano del Garda, the Grotte di Catullo and the Museo Archeologico and Castello Scaligero in Sirmione, the MUPRE - National Museum of Prehistory of the Camonica Valley in Capo di Ponte, the National Park of Rock Engravings in Naquane, Capo di Ponte, the National Archaeological Park of the Massi di Cemmo and the National Archaeological Museum of the Camonica Valley in Cividate Camuno.

“A heritage of absolute importance, rare in its richness, charm and complexity, on which capable and motivated colleagues operate. It has been managed with extraordinary vision and competence by Dr. Emanuela Daffra, whom I thank and to whom I wish all the best for her new, very important post as Superintendent at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence,” said Rosario Anzalone. “I am therefore picking up a precious legacy, which I am committed to cultivating and increasing through teamwork, further consolidating the cohesion and operational capabilities of the Office so that it becomes a capillary protagonist of cultural life throughout the region. Exploring and dialoguing with the inexhaustible heterogeneity of audiences will be our watchword, pursuing a purpose of social sustainability that makes cultural heritage not only an instrument of individual elevation, but also an engine of associated life and a flywheel of civil growth: a genuine antidote to the loneliness of the global citizen.”

Rosario Anzalone is the new director of the Regional Directorate National Museums of Lombardy

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