One of Italy's largest contemporary art museums becomes a vaccination center

It is called L’arte cura (Art Cures ), the project that transforms part of the Castello di Rivoli - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, one of Italy’s leading contemporary art museums, into a center for anti-Covid vaccinations. The project, launched by the Castello di Rivoli in collaboration with the City of Rivoli and ASL Torino 3, is in synergy with the Cultura Italiae campaign for the reopening of museums, theaters and cultural venues as garrisons for the protection of citizens’ health.

In particular, the Rivoli Castle is making available to the campaign the large rooms on the third floor, where Claudia Comte’s wall painting exhibition is housed: these spaces in the coming months will allow the setting up of stations to perform vaccinations as well as post-vaccination monitoring, in a comfortable and safe environment that will ensure maximum protection thanks to strict hygienic procedures.

“Art,” says Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, director of the Castello di Rivoli, “has always contributed to the healing of society. It is no accident that some of the world’s first museums were previously hospitals. We would now like to return the favor, so to speak, by making the rooms of the Rivoli Castle available for the national vaccination plan. Our museum, housed in a Baroque building, is well equipped for this purpose. Our spaces are large enough to accommodate a safe vaccination center, where safe distances can be respected; our custodians are welcoming and well-trained in monitoring the public. Most importantly, it is a commitment, shared by other public museums, to create a place that is accessible and serves the community. Although our exhibitions are currently closed to the public, our buildings can continue to serve that purpose and fulfill our mission. Art is curation.”

“An absolutely interesting, functional, and high-profile proposal,” says Rivoli Mayor Andrea Tragaioli, “to administer vaccines to the citizenry in the aulic halls of the Museum of Contemporary Art at Rivoli Castle. The spaces identified can be functional for the protocol envisaged for the administration of the vaccine, and I have already had an initial positive feedback from Asl To3, which must, however, wait for indications from the Ministry of Health. The administration is inclined to support in every way this laudable initiative that brings the Castle closer to the city.”

Photo: Claudia Comte’s wall paintings at Rivoli Castle

One of Italy's largest contemporary art museums becomes a vaccination center

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