Comics come to museums: Franceschini unveils new project for Italian museums

The Fumetti nei Musei project was presented this morning in Rome, at the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica and in the presence of Minister of Cultural Heritage Dario Franceschini: some of Italy ’s most celebrated cartoonists will create twenty-two graphic novels that will be destined for the educational services of twenty of the thirty autonomous museums, which will be joined by the Colosseum and the Archaeological Park of Pompeii. The project was conceived by the MiBACT press and communications office, is being carried out in collaboration with Coconino Press-Fandango and with the support of Ales SpA, the MiBACT Center for Educational Services and the General Directorate for Museums. The aim is to bring children closer to Italy’s museum heritage through comic stories that will take their cues from the works preserved in museums.

The project, a true comic book series, is the brainchild of Italian museum directors and some leading cartoonists. At the same time, an exhibition has started at the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, displaying all the covers of the albums, a selection of the plates, as well as sketches and original sketches by the artists. The exhibition runs from February 21 to April 1, and at the end of the exhibition the original prints will become part of the Central Institute for Graphic Design’s holdings. A video including a slideshow of some of the plates created as part of the project is available on YouTube.

These are the museums and cartoonists participating in the project: the Galleria Borghese and Martoz, the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence and Tuono Pettinato, the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea and LRNZ, the Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria and Andrea Settimo, the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche and Maicol&Mirco, the Gallerie degli Uffizi and Alessandro Tota, the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice and Alice Socal, the Gallerie Nazionali d’Arte Antica in Palazzo Barberini and Paolo Parisi, the Musei Reali in Turin and Lorena Canottiere, the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte and Lorenzo Ghetti, the Musei del Bargello and Otto Gabos, the Palazzo Reale in Genoa and Fabio Ramiro Rossin, the Parco Archeologico di Paestum and Dr. Pira, the Pinacoteca di Brera and Paolo Bacilieri, the Reggia di Caserta and Maicol&Mirco, the Gallerie Estensi and Marino Neri, the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli and Zuzu, the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Reggio Calabria and Vincenzo Filosa, the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Taranto and Squaz, the Palazzo Ducale di Mantova and Sara Colaone, the Parco Archeologico di Pompei and Bianca Bagnarelli, and the Parco Archeologico del Colosseo and Roberto Grossi.

Comics come to museums: Franceschini unveils new project for Italian museums

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