Ministry of Culture launches campaign Culture unites the world

A digital campaign to let people know that the Italian world of culture is against war. Culture unites the world, is the title of the action launched by the Ministry of Culture, which, with the hashtags #museumsagainstwar and #cultureunitestheworld, has already garnered hundreds of endorsements across the country from museums and cultural institutions filling social media with images of works of art to affirm that Italy repudiates war. The campaign also aims to express Italy’s solidarity with Ukraine.

“So many museums have already joined in,” the MiC points out, “from the Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, with the decoration of the pediment of a temple that stood in theancient harbor sanctuary of Pyrgi depicting the beastly struggle of the allies Tydeus and Capaneus under the walls of Thebes, to the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Orvieto, with a stone equine head reminiscent of the distorted expression of the horse in Guernica, from the Egyptian Museum in Turin, with theankh amulet of long life and protection, to the Capodimonte Museum, with Giorgio Vasari’s Allegory of Justice, from the statues of Villa Adriana in Tivoli, to works in the Borghese Gallery, the Museo Nazionale Romano, the Museo Omero in Ancona, the Museo delle Navi Romane in Nemi, Palazzo Grimani in Venice and the Palazzo Reale in Genoa.” Endorsements also came from archives and libraries.

The campaign is continuing and began with the illumination of the Colosseum with the colors of the Ukrainian flag, another means by which Italy thought to make its support for Kiev’s cause evident. And it will continue in the coming hours and days, hoping of course for the easing of tensions.

Ministry of Culture launches campaign Culture unites the world

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