Pisa, Palazzo Blu reopens and will be free for all, for the entire month of June

On Saturday, June 13, starting at 10 a.m., Palazzo Blu in Pisa will once again open the doors of its permanent collection to the public, coinciding with the week in which the feast day of St. Rainier, patron saint of the Tuscan city, is celebrated. The public will thus have the opportunity to admire works from the collection (including the latest arrival, the splendid portrait of Artemisia Gentileschi painted by Simon Vouet) and the temporary exhibition Pisa Anni ’60, il boom e il rock.

Admission to Palazzo Blu will be free for the entire month of June, and it will be open daily, except Mondays, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. (hours are instead 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, including Wednesday, June 17, the feast of St. Rainier).

“The still great uncertainty of the moment makes it difficult to predict the duration and extent of the health measures and their consequences, including economic ones, which will heavily affect in the near future, cultural and leisure activities, so important for tourism, the sector certainly most affected by the Covid-19 crisis,” writes Palazzo Blu in a note. “However, if we want to restart and recover in time the lost positions, even in the situation of uncertainty just mentioned, it will be necessary with caution and rationality, to rediscover the desire to enter a museum. In this regard, Palazzo Blu, which has been in recent years a new reason to visit our city and wants to continue to be so, counts on resuming, in the ways and times that will be possible, the programs of temporary exhibitions, winter and spring, on which it has continued to work during the last few weeks.”

“During the three months of closure,” Palazzo Blu emphasizes, "the commitment has been aimed at keeping the relationship with the public alive. With the collaboration of Kinzica and in-house staff, a lot of digital content has been created and posted on the Palazzo Blu website and social media. From a virtual tour of the palace and its treasures to more than forty short insights into past years’ exhibitions and the museum’s main works, not to mention 9 virtual workshops for the little ones. The thread, abruptly broken of the auditorium meetings and concerts, was reknotted with Francesco Martinelli’s lecture-concerts of Pisa Jazz on Sunday morning, classical piano in the afternoon with Giuseppe Bruno and Sandro Bartoli, and the video conference with Arnaldo Testi for the ’Boundaries and Frontiers’ review.

“The excellent audience results achieved by these initiatives, with the number of visitors to the site more than tripling and the numerous social interactions,” the institute’s staff concludes, “induces Palazzo Blu to continue on this path, in a more organic way, even now that we are in a new phase.”

Pisa, Palazzo Blu reopens and will be free for all, for the entire month of June

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