Museums - Finestre sull'Arte

University of Pisa seeks volunteers to look at artwork

Art, it is known, arouses emotions, and now there are those who want to study this potential, turn it into data useful for scientific research. This is the goal of the ethological survey initiated by the Department of Biology at the University of Pis...
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Italian museums: the app that makes cultural heritage accessible to all

"Cultural heritage at your fingertips." This is the message of the Musei Italiani app, an innovative project that aims to significantly transformaccess to museums and cultural venues by offering users an intuitive, secure and comprehensive digital se...
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Flooding at the Vatican Museums: water on the statues of the Profane Gregorian

A violent thunderstorm that hit Rome in the past week has caused water infiltration in the Vatican Museums, causing flooding in the Gregorian Profane section, one of the exhibition spaces that holds a significant part of the ancient sculpture collect...
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ADI Design Museum: the Gio Ponti Space is born. Convention signed with the Lombardy Region

The city of Milan is preparing to consolidate its role as the international center of gravity for design through a major new expansion of theADI Design Museum. On the morning of April 15, 2026, an agreement was officially signed between the Lombardy ...
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"Fairy Tales are Real..." Inclusive exhibition at Rome's Museum of Civilizations extended to May 24

Extended to May 24, 2026, at the Museum of Civilizations in Rome is the exhibition Le fiabe sono vere... Storia popolare italiana, open to the public since last July 24 and set up as an innovative and immersive journey that aims to tell the connectio...
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Personeper.it, the new portal for accessibility in cultural places

It is called personeper.it: it is the new Italian website entirely focused on accessibility issues and experiences within cultural venues. This digital space was conceived with the fundamental purpose of informing, contributing to education and solic...
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Melissa Chiu named director of Guggenheim Museum in New York

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has announced the appointment of Melissa Chiu as the new director of the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The official induction is scheduled for September 1, 2026. The announcement was made by Mariët Westerman...
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Hackers at the Uffizi? Courier speaks of stolen data, museum denies

An alleged hacker attack on the computer systems of the Uffizi Galleries and its possible consequences for the security of the museum complex are at the center of a divergence between what Corriere della Sera reported in an article published this mor...
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