Museums

Xerxes Mazda is the new director of collections at the British Museum

New Director of Collections at the British Museum in London appointed: he is Xerxes Mazda. Currently Director of Collections and Curatorial Affairs at the British Library, where he led curatorial teams and was responsible for many of the major digiti...
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A museum is born in Mantua that will house a collection of international significance: the Sonnabend Collection

Mantua is preparing to welcome a new contemporary art museum in the heart of the city. Starting in winter 2025 (so next), the renovated Palazzo della Ragione will become the permanent home of the Sonnabend Collection, one of the most important privat...
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The University of Pisa's Gipsoteca d'Arte Antica, a collection of classical statues in a church

One of the most fascinating and least known places of Pisa's cultural heritage: it is the Gipsoteca di Arte Antica , which, together with theAntiquarium, is part of theUniversity of Pisa's Sistema Museale di Ateneo: an institution that combines histo...
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Poldi Pezzoli Museum: a year of records and a 2025 with news and a major exhibition

2024 was a historic year for the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan. With more than 82,000 visitors, an 80 percent increase over 2023, the museum achieved a record number of admissions since its opening, an extraordinary result that testifies to the succe...
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Flanders, the new BRUSK exhibition space will open in Bruges, and the entire museum area will be renovated

The city of Bruges is preparing to enter a new cultural era with the opening of the BRUSK cultural hub, scheduled for December 2025. Located in the medieval heart of the city, the new building will be the focal point of an overall renovation project ...
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Boboli, the Camellia Garden reopens to the public with guided tours

In the heart of the Medici park inside theBoboli Gardens , the Camellia Garden will be accessible with guided tours on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, from Jan. 17 to April 13. This is an opportunity to discover a space historically reserved for the ...
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TPC Carabinieri return Roman-era silver coin to Pesaro's Ente Olivieri stolen in 1978

Carabinieri from Ancona's Nucleo Tutela Patrimonio Culturale returned to the director ofPesaro's Ente Olivieri the silver coin from the Roman period (I-II century AD) known as the"contour of Trajan." The return took place at the inauguration of Ente ...
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Spain, big numbers for museums in 2024: Prado breaks historic record

Important numbers for Spanish museums in the year that just ended, with several institutions hitting historic figures. The most visited museum in the country is confirmed to be the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid , which closed 2024 with the histo...
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London, National Gallery opens all night for Van Gogh exhibition. When in Italy?

A museum open all night, until the next morning. In England, the National Gallery in London is experimenting with what is practically a dream in Italy, namely giving the public the opportunity to visit an exhibition all night, until the next morning,...
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Peggy Guggenheim Collection, over 388,000 visitors in 2024. And in 2025, an exhibition of Lucio Fontana's ceramics.

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice recorded more than 388,000 admissions during its 313 days of operation in 2024, with a daily average of 1,240 visitors: 75 percent from abroad and 25 percent from Italy. Added to these are more than 6,000 peo...
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The Royal Palace of Caserta prepares for a 2025 of challenges

The year 2024 marked a year of transformation for the Royal Palace of Caserta, the famous Vanvitellian complex, a symbol of Italian cultural heritage and a UNESCO site: the institute now makes it known that 2025 opens with renewed prospects, under th...
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In 2024, the Galleries of Italy in their four locations welcomed 750 thousand visitors

In 2024, Intesa Sanpaolo's Gallerie d'Italia, between their sites in Milan, Naples, Turin and Vicenza, welcomed 750 thousand visitors. Among them, 100 thousand were students from schools of all levels, for whom the activities are offered free of char...
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Sarzana, "augmentative texts" arrive at Diocesan Museum to promote inclusion

The Diocesan Museum of Sarzana opens its doors to an increasingly wide and diverse audience thanks to the TAM TAM project, implemented with the contribution of the Carispezia Foundation as part of the "Plural and Sustainable Culture" call for proposa...
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Turin's Royal Museums gear up for a 2025 full of news and exhibitions

The year 2025 will bring news and exhibitions to the Royal Museums of Turin. Between January and February in the two rooms located on the second floor of the Sabauda Gallery, Spazio Leonardo will be inaugurated, a new installation in which the nucle...
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Rome reopens the Passetto di Borgo, the secret corridor that connected the Vatican to Castel Sant'Angelo

In Rome, the Borgo Passetto, the famous fortified passage connecting the Vatican to Castel Sant'Angelo, has been returned to the public: a sort of... Roman Vasarian Corridor, reopened this year exactly like its counterpart in Florence (which is actua...
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