Museums - Finestre sull'Arte

Riccione, David2's proposal for Villa Mussolini: make it a hub for art and design

An exhibition center focused mainly on applied arts, which could multiply the cultural offerings of the city of Riccione, and a permanent collection dedicated to futurism and modernism. This is, in a nutshell, the project that the Turin-based David2...
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MAXXI 2026: a year of exhibitions, architecture and urban regeneration

The year 2026 at MAXXI in Rome opens with a broad and diverse program designed to explore contemporary Italian creativity while observing global transformations in the artistic and architectural landscape. The year also marks the 80th anniversary of ...
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UK government invests 1.5 billion in culture: its social importance recognized

The U.K. government has announced a total investment of 1.5 billion pounds (about 1.7 billion euros) earmarked for culture over the next five years, outlining what is being presented as a step change from more than a decade of underfunding. The packa...
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MUVV, the Vercelli and Varallo network to enhance a museum heritage of excellence

The cultural landscape of the Piedmont region has seen in recent years the consolidation of a strategic project called MUVV, an acronym that identifies the network of Vercelli and Varallo Museums. This initiative stems from the need to structure a mu...
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Museums and legality: the University of Padua launches a podcast on art authenticity

What does it mean today to ensure the authenticity of works preserved in museums and to protect cultural heritage from the risks of forgery, illicit trafficking and clandestine excavations? These questions are tried to be answered by Against a False ...
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MASI Lugano 2026: Korean video art, Schnyder and Kaari Upson among upcoming exhibitions

The Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana (MASI) in Lugano has unveiled its exhibition program for 2026, outlining a season that combines international proposals and insights into the local art scene. The calendar opens in spring with the group show K...
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The gipsoteca that isn't and won't be there: the plaster casts of the Carrara Academy still without a museum

For decades in Carrara, there has been an ongoing attempt to find an exhibition venue that can permanently house one of Italy's most important plaster cast collections: the plaster cast collection of the Academy of Fine Arts. Retracing, albeit briefl...
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Are museums still independent spaces or are they becoming private showcases?

There was a time when the museum was considered a temple of knowledge, a place where society confronted its own history, where art was kept not only to be contemplated, but also to be studied, understood, passed on. Today, in many cases, those temple...
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