Museums - Finestre sull'Arte

Metropolitan Sunday returns to Florence: free admission to museums for all residents

Sunday, April 7, Metropolitan Sunday returns to Florence, on the occasion of which all residents of the Metropolitan City of Florence will be able to visit the Florentine Civic Museums and Palazzo Medici Riccardi free of charge, and participate in th...
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Do state museums really not know how to organize important exhibitions anymore?

In Italy there existed a sort of golden age of exhibitions, full of events of international scope and the result of prestigious collaborations and full-bodied loan campaigns, which today is inexorably over, the accomplice of an autarchy into which ou...
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Naples, the Real Albergo dei Poveri will host a second home for the Mann: it will display artifacts from its storerooms

The Real Albergo dei Poveri in Naples, also known as Palazzo Fuga, will house many artifacts from the storage rooms of the Mann-National Archaeological Museum, which are therefore not accessible to the public now. This was announced, as Repubblica re...
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Chiara Bertola presents the guidelines for her GAM in Turin. This is what the GAM of the future will look like

The new director of GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino Chiara Bertola presented the guidelines of her mandate, her vision for the museum's future and the rich exhibition program for 2024. Together with Fondazione Torino Mu...
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Royal Palace of Caserta, northwest wing of the royal palace opens to the public. An additional 3,000 square meters can be visited

From March 1, 2024, 3000 more square meters of the Royal Palace of Caserta will be open to visitors. After nearly a century, in fact, thenorthwest wing of the Royal Palace of the Reggia will be open to the public. The rooms of the Grand Gallery retur...
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Guided tours of the new storerooms of the Florentine Civic Museums. Here's when and how to visit them

Starting February 3, 2024, guided tours of the new storerooms of the Florentine Civic Museums are scheduled every Saturday of the month (at 10 a.m., 11 a.m. and 12 p.m.), curated by MUS.E. The storerooms, inside the Santa Maria Novella complex, were ...
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In Faenza, the Carlo Zauli Museum reopens to the public after long closure due to flooding

After the long period of closure due to the renovation work necessary following the flood that hit it on May 16, 2023, the Carlo Zauli Museum in Faenza announces its reopening to the public scheduled for Saturday, January 27, 2024 from 4 to 9 p.m. "...
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Newly appointed director of the Estense Galleries Alessandra Necci is in charge as of today.

New director Alessandra Necci takes office today, whom the Estensi Galleries of Modena, Ferrara and Sassuolo welcomes. She succeeds Martina Bagnoli, who has managed the multi-location museum since 2015. The newly appointed director will also manage F...
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