Free Sunday at the museum: MiBACT has suspended it, Milan as well, but in Rome it will be done

It already seems like a thing of the past the first free Sunday of the month at the museum, the initiative strongly advocated by the minister of cultural heritage, Dario Franceschini, and affecting all state museums, but it was soon imitated by many civic and private museums throughout Italy as well. However, fears over the Covid-19 health emergency led the MiBACT to suspend the initiative to avoid the formation of gatherings in cultural venues, since the initiative was highly attended.

Several municipalities have also decreed the suspension of similar initiatives. It is today’s news, for example, that the City of Milan has suspended its own free Sunday in city museums, indefinitely like MiBACT. Going in the opposite direction, however, is the City of Rome: the principle is that assemblages cannot be created if free Sundays are regulated, which is why Rome’s civic museums have not shelved the initiative for the time being, but have reshaped it by simply introducing compulsory reservations to better manage the admission quota.

In Rome, therefore, the first free Sunday at the museum will also take place this November 1: reservations must be made, compulsorily, at 060608 or in person at Tourist Infopoints in the capital by 7 p.m. tonight. Therefore, the Capitoline Museums, the Museum of Rome in Palazzo Braschi, the Ara Pacis Museum, the Mercati di Traiano - Museo dei Fori Imperiali, the Centrale Montemartini, the Museo di Roma in Trastevere, the Galleria d’Arte Moderna, the Villa Torlonia Museums can be visited for free, the Museo Civico di Zoologia, the Museo Carlo Bilotti - Aranciera di Villa Borghese, the Museo di Scultura Antica Giovanni Barracco, the Museo Napoleonico, the Museo Pietro Canonica, the Museo della Repubblica Romana e della memoria garibaldina, the Museo di Casal de’ Pazzi and the Museo delle Mura. Exceptions only for the exhibition of Torlonia marbles at the Capitoline Museums and the Per gioco at the Museum of Rome review: in this case, tickets will be paid regularly. The initiative is promoted by Roma Capitale, Assessorato alla Crescita culturale - Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali with the museum services of Zètema Progetto Cultura.

Pictured: the courtyard of the Palazzo dei Conservatori (Capitoline Museums). Ph. Credit Finestre Sull’Arte

Free Sunday at the museum: MiBACT has suspended it, Milan as well, but in Rome it will be done

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