Official: Schmidt still director of the Uffizi. Collu and Bellenger also renewed

It’s official: Eike Schmidt will still serve as director of the Uffizi in Florence . Cultural Heritage Minister Dario Franceschini has renewed his term for another four years.Schmidt’s renewal, as the minister had stated in recent days, was contingent on there being no diplomatic incidents with Austria, since the Uffizi director had turned down the post of director of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna for which he had been nominated. In addition to Schmidt’s, the appointments of Cristiana Collu (National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rome) and Sylvain Bellenger (Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples) were also renewed for four years.

“Museum autonomy works,” Minister Franceschini said on the sidelines of the renewal, “in these years it has certainly brought more visitors but above all it has been an excellent tool to modernize Italian museums and strengthen protection and scientific production. The data speak for themselves: the intersection of reform and quality of directors has proven to be a winning mix for the Italian museum system.”

Official: Schmidt still director of the Uffizi. Collu and Bellenger also renewed

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