Nardella wants to make Uffizi 2 in China: a museum branch in Shanghai or Beijing

Speaking in Capri at the Confindustria youth conference, Florence Mayor Dario Nardella floated the idea of creating a “branch” of the Uffizi in China. As the French have done with the Louvre in Abu Dhabi, he explained, Florence could bring the “Uffizi 2” to a major Chinese city, for example Beijing or Shanghai, where works from the great Florentine museum could be displayed in rotation. All under the banner of “sharing beauty.” Nardella also said he has already pitched the idea to the Minister of Cultural Heritage, Dario Franceschini, and the director of the Uffizi, Eike Schmidt.

The director has not closed to the idea but said it is a proposal “to be studied with care and attention, with a great project that leverages not only our artistic heritage and our name but also a vast digitization operation of our treasures.”

Nardella wants to make Uffizi 2 in China: a museum branch in Shanghai or Beijing

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