The Carrara Academy will be completely renovated in view of Bergamo and Brescia Capital of Culture 2023

TheCarrara Academy in Bergamo is being renovated, and to allow for the work it will close to the public, from what is planned, from August 29, 2022 until January 2023. In the new year, therefore, the refurbishment of the interior will be inaugurated, as well as the first exhibition, while the garden will have to wait until June 23, 2023.

In fact, the museum headquarters officially unveiled the refurbishment project ahead of 2023, on the occasion of Bergamo and Brescia Italian Capital of Culture. According to the plans, the renovation is "an economic investment tackled also and above all with a view to sustainability and projection toward the future, which will make the Fondazione Accademia Carrara an ’institution even more capable of realizing a management that is as attentive as it is up-to-date with the times. The entire project is being worked on by the Foundation’s team in collaboration with a group of art historians, with financial support also from the Lombardy Region. The architectural design, on the other hand, is being carried out by Antonio Ravalli and his team.

With a more functional view, the ground floor will welcome visitors and tell the story of the Academy’s donors, the second floor will host temporary exhibitions and focus on the collection, and the second floor will be dedicated to the permanent collection consisting of three hundred works divided into fifteen exhibition rooms. The Vitali Wing will house, on the ground floor, spaces for restoration and operations to check the state of conservation of the works, while the second floor will maintain the dual function of auditorium and exhibition hall. A covered walkway will connect the three floors between interior and exterior to offer a new perspective in the context of the Venetian Walls.

In June 2023, on the other hand, the PwC Gardens will open: a green area of more than three thousand square meters that will be accessible to all. The name is due to the agreement signed in early 2022 between Fondazione Accademia Carrara and PwC Italia, which will support the Carrara’s major events and activities in 2023.

“The museum has made a deep reflection on its role and has been willing to rethink itself, paying special attention to the needs of the public,” said Maria Cristina Rodeschini, director of the Accademia Carrara. “The outcome of this pondering has guided the many protagonist parts of the new Carrara: from the redesign of the ordering of the art collections and the routes, to the substantial improvement of the connection between the different levels of the historic site, to the opening of the gardens, making the museum regain a breath and an environmental context previously hidden.”

“It was while walking down the main stairs of the museum that I discovered, through one of the windows, the presence of a large terraced garden that was not in use,” added design architect Antonio Ravalli. “Thus, in the development of the new organization of the collection, the possibility of a substantial improvement in the functionality of the pathway was glimpsed with the creation of an external connection between the floors. Also through an analysis of the consistency of the external structures and their historical value, the idea of combining the functional appropriateness of the picture gallery with the possibility of reinterpreting Carrara in relation to the urban context in which it is inserted grew. In addition to complying with the improvement of the entire museum, the new path is configured as a kind of suspension between the visiting experience of the permanent exhibition and that of the temporary projects, and as a narrative path that seeks to create new relationships between the museum, its garden, and the presence of the Venetian Walls, offering new perspectives. All of this also opens up the possibility of introducing new services to the public and, in the future, a connection to the fantastic place that is the Upper Town’s sub-wall.”

The Carrara Academy will be completely renovated in view of Bergamo and Brescia Capital of Culture 2023

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