Royal Museums of Turin: increase in visitors in 2019. Exhibitions scheduled for the coming months

The Royal Museums of Turin closes 2019 with a 6.5 percent increase in visitors compared to 2018, totaling 492,136 people, plus 102,465 from the 2019 exhibitions, raising the percentage to +15 percent over the previous year.

The past year has seen a succession of exhibitions, as well as many new events and awards. Among them was the2019 European Heritage Award/Premium Europa Nostra for the restoration work on the Guarino Guarini Chapel in the Conservation category. The award is organized by the European Commission and Europa Nostra.

Last year’s exhibitions kicked off with Antoon van Dyck. Court Painter, the official painter of the greatest courts of Europe who portrayed princes, queens, gentlemen and noblewomen of the most prestigious dynasties of the time: 45 paintings and 21 etchings by the artist who revolutionized the art of portraiture in the 17th century.

The exhibition Riccardo Gualino collector and entrepreneur, through which the public got to know one of the most significant Turin figures of the Italian 20th century, had been set up in the Sale Chiablese.

However, 2019 was the year of Leonardo, to whom the Royal Museums dedicated the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci. Drawing the Future. An exhibition that featured autograph drawings preserved in the Royal Library. These included the Codex on the Flight of Birds and the famous Self-Portrait.

Two works recently returned to public view, thanks to the exhibition The Time of Leonardo 1452-1519 (until March 8, 2020 at the Royal Library). The exhibition traces a period of great cultural ferment, in which events and stories of great Renaissance protagonists took place.

The exhibition dedicated to Pelagio Palagi (until Feb. 9) and the one dedicated to Konrad Mägi (until March 8), on the other hand, continue in early 2020.

Already announced are the exhibitions that will be on view in the coming months: they will begin on April 2 with the millennia-old fascination of Cyprus, heart of the Mediterranean and bridge between East and West, the protagonist of the international exhibition Cyprus. Crossroads of Civilizations (through Sept. 20, 2020, held in collaboration with the University of Turin). The Museum of Antiquities’ collection is enriched by unique loans for the first time in Italy from distinguished foreign institutions, including the British Museum in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, Medelhavetmuseet in Stockholm, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia.

From October 24, 2029 to March 7, 2021, the Chiablese Rooms will host Capa in color, an exhibition curated by the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York that will present Robert Capa’s color photographs to the general public for the first time.

In addition, celebrations for the five hundredth anniversary of Raphael’s death will see an exhibition dedicated to the great Renaissance master at the Galleria Sabauda from October 30, 2020 to March 14, 2021.

Finally, a special focus will be devoted to the Baroque, with dedicated exhibitions, concerts and tours to be held from March to September 2020.

For info: www.museireali.beniculturali.it

Royal Museums of Turin: increase in visitors in 2019. Exhibitions scheduled for the coming months

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