A new museum in Tuscany: the Museum of the City opens in Livorno on Monday.

On Monday, April 30, the Museo della Città (City Museum) will be opened in Livorno, in the old Bottini dell’Olio building located in the La Venezia neighborhood.The brand new museum consists of elements of the city’s collections stored in the repositories of the Giovanni Fattori Museum and the Labronica Library “Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi” and includes 600 objects starting from the archaeological and numismatic collections, passing through medieval documents written on parchment, belonging to the fund known as the Diplomatic of Livorno and illuminated specimens from the 15th and 16th centuries.

The exhibition also finds space in the itinerary for the first flag of the Italian Communist Party sewn by Leghorn comrades in 1921 when the split from the Socialist Party took place in Leghorn itself and the first congress of the Communist Party of Italy adhering to the Third International was declared open at the San Marco Theater. There will also be a section that puts on display political and costume satire periodicals and Amedeo Modigliani ’s Three False Heads, which in 1984 brought Livorno to the headlines worldwide for the great "Modì hoax."

Cinema, too, will take place in the museum: testifying to the relationship between Livorno and the seventh art, there will be posters of numerous films set in the city and bearing the signatures of such masters of neorealism and beyond as Giorgio Ferroni, Alberto Lattuada, and Luigi Comencini. One thinks of the scenes from Dino Risi ’s " Sorpasso" and Luchino Visconti ’s “Le notti bianche” to the most recent films of the famous Livorno director Paolo Virzì.

The opening of the museum will take place at 5:30 p.m. accompanied by a celebration of music, dance and theater, while at 6 p.m. there will be a greeting from the authorities and the ribbon cutting.

A new museum in Tuscany: the Museum of the City opens in Livorno on Monday.

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