All museums open for Ferragosto 2017

There are many museums that will keep their doors open on Ferragosto. Major museums such as the Uffizi, the Galleria Borghese, the National Museum of Capodimonte, the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua, and the Complesso della Pilotta in Parma will keep their doors open on both August 14 and 15, often with extended hours, such as at the Uffizi, where doors are open on the 15th until 10 p.m. The Ministry of Cultural Heritage has released the list of museums that will remain open: about 350, which can be consulted at this address, where you can also check opening hours.

But not only state museums. In Rome, all municipal museums will open with regular hours on August bank holiday. In Milan, at the Palazzo Reale, exhibitions will be open both on the 14th and 15th from 9:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., and the Gallerie d’Italia in Piazza Scala will also remain open. In Carrara, Palazzo Cucchiari will hold open for the Dopo Canova exhibition on the 14th (10am-12pm and 4pm-8pm) and the 15th (10am-12pm and 5pm-10pm). In Florence, the Palazzo Vecchio civic museum will also be regularly open (9am-11pm) as will the Santa Maria Novella museum (12-6:30pm) and the Museo Novecento (11am-8pm). In Bologna, all Genus Bononiae collections will observe special openings, and doors will also be open at municipal museums such as the Collections of Palazzo D’Accursio (10am-6:30pm) and MAMbo (10am-6pm). Lots of exhibitions will also be open in Sicily: in Catania, the exhibition on Escher at the Palazzo della Cultura will be open with regular hours, and in Noto the exhibition on Chagall and Missoni will observe regular opening hours 10-24. In Venice, all the civic museums will be regularly open.

There will also be events, special tours, concerts and meetings in museums throughout Italy. The editorial staff of Windows on Art will remain operational throughout the weekend as well as on the 14th and 15th to answer all your inquiries, either by e-mail or on our Facebook page.

All museums open for Ferragosto 2017

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