The Museum of Art Nouveau will be born in Palermo

After the regional council gave the go-ahead to the proposal of Cultural Heritage and Sicilian Identity Councillor Alberto Samonà, Sicilian Regional President Nello Musumeci announced that the Museum of Art Nouveau will be created in Palermo. "It was a commitment I had made to the Sicilian parliament and to all the people of Palermo a few days ago during the examination of the financial maneuver in the Ars. Today, that commitment has been fulfilled. Indeed, the regional government has allocated three million euros for the establishment in Palermo of the Regional Museum of Art Nouveau - Villa Deliella and the Art Nouveau Itinerary.

The museum will stand where Villa Deliella, built in 1905 to a design by architect Ernesto Basile in Palermo’s Piazza Francesco Crispi, once stood. The building was demolished in 1959 as part of the “building sack” to have a palace built, but it was never built. For years that space was occupied by a parking lot.

During the recent financial session, after a similar rule presented by Congresswoman Marianna Caronia had been scrapped, the governor had expressed the government’s intention to have an administrative act in place as soon as possible to start the procedures for the birth of the museum and a major related cultural itinerary.

The project will see a synergy between the departments of Cultural Heritage and Infrastructure.

“Today is a particularly important day,” said Councillor Samonà, “because a wound inflicted more than 60 years ago on Palermo and Sicily is being healed. The decision to bring the Art Nouveau Museum to life is a strong political act that accomplishes a double result: it gives proper visibility to an architectural style that marked a memorable period in Sicily, and it morally and culturally compensates the entire Sicilian community for the violence it suffered.”

The Museum of Art Nouveau will be born in Palermo

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