New funds for Ginori Museum: 5.5 million euros for restoration and refitting

"The Strategic Plan Major Cultural Projects will support with 5.5 million euros the restoration and new layout of the Richard Ginori Museum of the Doccia Factory. Important resources for a reality that has meritoriously become part of the State’s heritage, a unique testimony of Italian know-how that, thanks to the work of the foundation and the planned interventions, will be even more enhanced," said Culture Minister Dario Franceschini.

The historic museum was purchased in the fall of 2017, after being closed in 2013 and the subsequent risk of abandonment, by the state. In 2018, an enhancement agreement was signed between the state, the Region of Tuscany and the Municipality of Sesto Fiorentino, which led the following year to the establishment of the Fondazione Museo Archivio Richard Ginori della Manifattura di Doccia, which aims to conserve, catalog, study, communicate and exhibit an extraordinary artistic, historical, social and economic heritage and to make its extremely rich collection of ceramic artifacts a common, accessible and inclusive asset.

Created together with the Doccia Factory and within the buildings used for production, the Ginori Museum has been a business museum for nearly three hundred years, conceived by its founder, Marquis Carlo Ginori, as a privileged container of the beauty that his factory was capable of creating. The museum venue preserves three centuries of the history of taste and collecting, representing an international unicum thanks to the richness and historical continuity of its heritage, the legacy of the oldest porcelain factory still active in Italy. Notified as a complex of exceptional historical-artistic and archival interest since 1962, its collection includes about 8,000 porcelain and majolica objects dating from 1737 to 1990, sculptural models, paper documents and drawings, a historical library, a specialized library and a photo library.

“As President of the Foundation, I would like to express my gratitude to Minister Dario Franceschini for so promptly fulfilling the promise he made and the commitment he made on May 16 during the press conference at the MIC and for fully accepting the request I made to also fund the restoration of the Museum’s second floor, allowing us to have the budget necessary for its full recovery,” said Tomaso Montanari President of the Richard Ginori Archive Museum Foundation of the Doccia Factory. In addition to the restoration of the building, the funding will allow for the new layout, which will be the Foundation’s primary task. We will work together with Dr. Stefano Casciu and the Regional Directorate of Museums of Tuscany to complete the work as quickly as possible. The Foundation will play its part to the fullest."

Pictured is the Ginori Museum building.

New funds for Ginori Museum: 5.5 million euros for restoration and refitting

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