Anna Coliva has been reinstated and returns to direct the Borghese Gallery: I will do my best to repay your trust

Anna Coliva, director of the Galleria Borghese in Rome, is back at the helm of the museum after being suspended by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage following the notorious affair in which she is on trial for defrauding the state: in fact, the prosecution charges her with 40 hours and 59 minutes of unjustified absence from her workplace.

It was the director herself who broke the news of her reinstatement through the website Change.org, on which her colleague David Jaffé, Senior Curator at the National Gallery in London, had launched an international petition a few weeks ago to ask MiBACT to cancel her suspension. Today, in a message posted on the platform, Anna Coliva declares that she has returned to direct the Roman museum.

This is the message she wrote (the original is in English, the translation is ours): “Dear friends and colleagues, I want to thank you all for your support. The amount, intensity and motivations of your solidarity have deeply touched me. The spontaneity of your support for the petitions has turned my case into an emblematic issue. And this can also be helpful to many colleagues, foreign and otherwise, who have been willing to accept the challenge of leading an Italian museum with optimism and confidence despite the great difficulties-and dangers-that this entails. I believe that this extraordinary expression of esteem and appreciation for my person, and especially for a great institution like the Borghese Gallery, helped convince the Ministry that it would have been better to postpone this Kafkaesque situation and wait for the judge’s decisions. I am pleased to inform you that thanks to your help I am continuing to run the Borghese Gallery at full capacity. In the meantime, I hope that the anonymous and unfounded accusation will be investigated as soon as possible. I will do my best to repay your trust in me, Anna Coliva.”

Anna Coliva has been reinstated and returns to direct the Borghese Gallery: I will do my best to repay your trust

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