Ferrara, museums and exhibitions free to those staying overnight in the city

From Dec. 31, 2021 until Jan. 2, 2022, thanks to an agreement between the city administration, Ascom-Confcommercio and Confesercenti, all those staying overnight in Ferrara will have free access to the city’s exhibitions and civic museums. Specifically, six venues are open to the public: the Castello Estense, the Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, with the new exhibition Sergio Zanni. Narrative Volumes; the Civic Lapidary and the new Schifanoia Museum, recently reopened in its entirety; and again, thePalazzina Marfisa d’Este and the Cathedral Museum, which houses, among other works, Jacopo della Quercia’s Madonna of the Pomegranate and Cavalier d’Arpino’s Holy Family (a work restored as part of Coop Alleanza’s ’Opera tua’ project). Those who have a booking confirmation or payment receipt from an accommodation facility in the municipal area, handing it in at the entrance of the exhibition venues of the city’s civic museum circuit will thus gain free access. Booking on the municipal portal is advisable: https://prenotazionemusei.comune.fe.it/

“The agreement is getting positive feedback and I have already received reports of memberships and reservations. I thank the associations, this arrangement shows once again how teamwork leads to concrete, effective and immediate results,” said Mayor Alan Fabbri.

Until January 2, moreover, the Visit Ferrara consortium is giving away a total of nine free tours, organized in cooperation with the two guide associations NaturalMente Arte and Itinerando. For each of the three days, it will be possible to take an outdoor tour of the city’s historic center (Friday 3 p.m., Saturday 3 p.m., Sunday 10:30 a.m.), moving from the medieval to the Renaissance part, and two guided tours inside the Castello Estense (Friday 11 a.m., Saturday 4 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m.) and Palazzo Schifanoia (Friday 4 p.m., Saturday 5 p.m., Sunday 3 p.m.).

Image: Palazzo Schifanoia, Salone dei Mesi: view of the north and east walls. Ph. Credit Henrik Blomqvist

Ferrara, museums and exhibitions free to those staying overnight in the city

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