Stefano L'Occaso will also direct the National Gallery of Umbria for a few months.

The current director of the Ducal Palace in Mantua Stefano L’Occaso has been appointed to an additional position as director of the National Gallery and Regional Museums Directorate of Umbria. He will thus take over from outgoing director Marco Pierini. The decree issued by the General Directorate of Museums in Rome has already been signed by Director General Massimo Osanna and will be enforceable as of November 15, 2023. L’Occaso will therefore flank his role at Palazzo Ducale in Mantua with this temporary position, lasting approximately two or three months, until the new director of the Umbrian institutes is appointed, at the conclusion of the selection procedure now underway.

“I thank director Stefano L’Occaso for his availability,” said Massimo Osanna, “in the certainty that he will ferry the two important institutes of the MiC in Umbria with the same efficiency and professionalism that he is putting in place in Mantua.”

“Everyone knows how much I love the Ducal Palace in Mantua,” admitted Stefano L’Occaso, “but it is a great pleasure to be able to commit myself also in favor of the Umbrian institutes. Therefore, I accept this new assignment with joy, knowing that I will be able to operate in an optimal situation, the one set by Marco Pierini, trusting that I will be able to put the future new director in the best position to start his work in a magnificent city like Perugia.”

Headquartered in Perugia’s Palazzo dei Priori, the National Gallery of Umbria is among the Ministry of Culture’s second-tier national autonomous museums (as is Palazzo Ducale in Mantua). The Regional Museums Directorate of Umbria (a non-general management level office) manages thirteen state museums, including the archaeological museums of Perugia, Orvieto and Spoleto, where the Rocca Albornoziana is also located, and the Ducal Palace in Gubbio.

Stefano L'Occaso will also direct the National Gallery of Umbria for a few months.

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