Ducal Palace of Mantua - Finestre sull'Arte

Mantua: New Square in Front of the Archaeological Museum—Redevelopment Project Approved

Mantua will have a new public space designed to connect San Giorgio Castle, the National Archaeological Museum, and the city, with the additional goal of highlighting a significant chapter in the city’s history. This is the goal of the redevelo...
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Mantegna's Bridal Chamber at the center of an experiment on adaptive lighting in museums

In Mantua, Andrea Mantegna 's Bridal Chamber becomes the center of an experiment on advanced museum lighting. The project SLiM - Smart Lighting in Museums: Development of an Innovative Light-Sensing and Adaptive Control System for Palazzo Ducale in M...
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Mantua's Ducal Palace opens Empress Apartment with a display dedicated to Giuseppe Bottani

At the conclusion of the restoration of the tapestries of the Salottino Giallo, also known as the Salottino di Ercole, in theAppartamento dell'Imperatrice in Corte Vecchia, the Ducal Palace of Mantua presents a renewed layout of the rooms with an exh...
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Mantua, Ducal Palace acquires the only gold coin of the Papal States minted in the city of the Gonzagas

The Ducal Palace Museum in Mantua has enriched its collection with a singular object: a gold coin of the Papal States minted in the Gonzaga territory. The specimen, preserved and now on display in the Camera di Bacco, offers material evidence of a cr...
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Mantua, Ducal Palace announces new fees and revised route for 2026

As of January 2, 2026, the Ducal Palace in Mantua will introduce a series of changes affecting the tour route, access to the main rooms of the complex, and the fees charged to the public. The changes will affect in particular the Bridal Chamber for w...
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Two extremely rare Gonzaga coins enrich the collection of the Ducal Palace in Mantua

Two silver coins dating from theGonzaga era, of extreme rarity and in exceptional condition, have been loaned to the Ducal Palace in Mantua by a private collector. The agreement, signed in the form of a five-year free loan, allows the Mantuan museum ...
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Mantua celebrates Mantegna: the Ca' d'Oro's St. Sebastian on display next to the Bridal Chamber

From April 12 to June 15, 2025, Mantua 's Ducal Palace hosts an exhibition event of rare intensity: the extraordinary opportunity to see two absolute masterpieces by Andrea Mantegna (Isola di Carturo, 1431 - Mantua, 1506) side by side. On the one han...
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Mantua, maintenance for the Bridal Chamber: goal to preserve Mantegna's masterpiece

From Feb. 24 to March 7, 2025, the Bridal Chamber, the fascinating work by Andrea Mantegna (Isola di Carturo, 1431 - Mantua, 1506) created between 1465 and 1474, will undergo a major scheduled maintenance operation. The pictorial masterpiece commissi...
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