Florence, the new, completely renovated Fashion Museum will open in 2023

A new Fashion Museum will open in Florence in 2023, the director of the Uffizi Galleries Eike Schmidt announced yesterday. It will be based in the Pitti Palace and preparations will begin after the summer, after the closing of the exhibition dedicated to Giuseppe Bezzuoli, set up in the Palazzina della Meridiana, that is, in the spaces of the future Fashion Museum.

"We already have this museum here in Florence. The temporary closure is only because after 40 years it needs to be revived and adapted to today,“ Schmidt said. ”The enormous energy expended by Cristina Piacenti who founded it motivates us even more: we need to transform it into the Museum of Italian Fashion, with a modern layout and different forms of communication." Kirsten Aschengreen Piacenti, known to everyone as Cristina Piacenti, in fact founded the Museum of Fashion and Costume in 1983 and it is the first state museum in Italy dedicated to the history of fashion.

The museum will be set up "according to modern criteria, with new showcases that reflect the great progress we have made in recent years in terms of anti-reflective glass,“ the director said. ”Anyone who would like to contribute is welcome. Undoubtedly it costs about as much to do a refit as to do an exhibition,“ he concluded, ”so we’re talking about a figure approaching a million euros. When you do an exhibition there are additional costs because you have to, for example, transport the works and these costs are not there, but for a more durable set-up you use more precious materials, those that last for twenty to thirty years at least and this is an affordable figure even in times of crisis."

Florence, the new, completely renovated Fashion Museum will open in 2023

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