Ministry of Culture - Finestre sull'Arte

Rosario Anzalone, director museums Lombardy: "with autonomy, for regional museums more funzuonal management"

The review dedicated to the new Regional Directorates National Museums endowed with financial autonomy reaches its last stage in Lombardy, to grasp further steps and reasons that have presided over this umpteenth reform in the long process of reorgan...
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Fabrizio Magani appointed director general for archaeology, fine arts and landscape of the Ministry of Culture

Fabrizio Magani has been appointed as the new director general for Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of the Ministry of Culture. The ministerial appointment was forwarded by the Prime Minister's Office to the Culture Committees of the House and Se...
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Andrea Bruciati (Ville di Tivoli): "I wanted to awaken two sleeping beauties."

Andrea Bruciati's tenure at the helm of the Villae, the autonomous institute of the Ministry of Culture that brings together the sites pertaining to Villa Adriana and Villa d'Este, ended a few days ago. An art historian and contemporaryist, Bruciati ...
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Restoration of the Atestino National Museum in Este gets underway: sustainability and new technologies

In the historic center of Este, in the province of Padua, between the walls of the Carrarese Castle and the gardens that frame it, Palazzo Mocenigo is now the focus of an extensive restoration and re-functionalization project. The complex, built in t...
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Museums set visitor records: yes, but how? An analysis of the data

Italian museums with more than 60 million visitors, revenues that almost reached 400 million euros: numbers that, for state museums, had never been seen before this year. Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli therefore did not hesitate to speak of "the b...
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Record number of visitors and revenue in state museums in 2024. Giuli: "The best result ever."

In 2024, 60,850,091 admissions were recorded in state cultural venues of the Ministry of Culture, an increase of 5.3 percent compared to the 57,730,502 tickets taken out in 2023, and 382,004,344 euros were received, an increase of 23 percent compared...
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Filippo Masino (director Piedmont Museums): how to grow "serial" autonomous museums

In the new installment of the survey devoted to the new Museum Directorates, which have broad decision-making powers and financial autonomy, we move to Piedmont. At the helm of the Royal Residences of Savoy and the Regional Directorate of National Mu...
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Ministry of Culture confirms allocation for Milan's Museum of Resistance

The Ministry of Culture has confirmed funding of 6.5 million euros for the construction of the National Museum of Resistance in Milan, a project that has been awaited for years and will aim to preserve the historical memory of the Resistance period. ...
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