Palazzo Strozzi becomes the property of the City of Florence through cultural federalism

Transfer of ownership of Palazzo Strozzi from the State to the City of Florence. This is provided for in theredevelopment agreement signed between the MiC Regional Secretary, Dr. Giorgia Muratori, the Director of the Agenzia del Demanio for Tuscany and Umbria, Dr. Raffaella Narni, the Director of the Culture and Sports Directorate of the City of Florence, Dr. Gabriella Farsi, and the Superintendent for the Metropolitan City of Florence and the provinces of Pistoia and Prato, architect Antonella Ranaldi. The signing represents a milestone in the process of cultural federalism, concerning Palazzo Strozzi, a state-owned property of which Palazzo Vecchio was the concessionaire, which ended with the transfer of the property from the state to the municipality.

The city administration aims to preserve, protect and enhance the architectural, historical and cultural heritage of Palazzo Strozzi, consolidating its role as a crossroads for the most innovative trends incontemporary art. The goal is also to strengthen synergies among the important cultural entities present here, such as the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, the Gabinetto G.P. Vieusseux, the National Institute for Renaissance Studies and the Scuola Normale Superiore, further establishing the Palazzo as a major artistic and cultural hub for the city.

The main points of the enhancement program include: contributing to the development of research, experimentation and artistic production, including in the contemporary sphere, of the entrepreneurial and professional skills of those working within Palazzo Strozzi; promoting in the city the pathway on the artistic expressions of the twentieth century in a potential synergy with the exhibitions on twentieth-century themes presented at Palazzo Strozzi by the Foundation of the same name; confirming the role of Palazzo Strozzi as a public place of cultural and social participation by implementing its potential cultural, through the development and sharing of planning and cultural programming both with the institutes already present in the palace and with other public and private entities that represent excellence in the cultural sphere in the area; enhance the documentary heritage in synergy with the cultural institutes present in the palace and in collaboration with other cultural institutes in the city (libraries and archives).

These objectives will be pursued by rationalizing the use of spaces and planning and scheduling the activities and initiatives of the various Institutions present in the Palace. The enhancement program also includes functional adjustments necessary for the realization, by the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, of a new technological equipment of the Altana, so as to make it suitable for the performance of in-presence and online activities, with the aim of increasing both the functionality for the activities it already hosts (Lectures and Lectures of the Scuola Normale), as well as the carrying out of additional cultural activities, and to make it even more of a representative venue for events and collateral activities to Palazzo Strozzi exhibitions.

“Today is an extremely important day because Palazzo Strozzi from the State passes to the Municipality after an important path carried out by the State Property Agency, the Ministry of Culture and our Culture and Heritage directorates,” said Mayor Sara Funaro. “Palazzo Strozzi is already an outstanding reality that offers contemporary art exhibitions, literary meetings and presentations of the highest level. The goal, therefore, is to continue on this path and strengthen the centrality of Palazzo Strozzi in the cultural sphere. The transfer of ownership comes after a long path already started by the last administration in order to have a more direct and less intermediate relationship and thus be able to intervene immediately for any kind of need, including maintenance. From today we will have the possibility to work more and more in close synergy with the Strozzi Foundation, the Gabinetto GP Viesseux, the National Institute for Renaissance Studies and the Scuola Normale Superiore and make sure that this palace will be more and more a point of reference for the cultural life of the city. Thanks to the enhancement agreement we will be able to work concretely to consolidate the vocation of Palazzo Strozzi as a place for contemporary art, to strengthen the synergies between all the important cultural institutions here and to increase even more the activities hosted, exhibitions but also conferences or seminars. There is work that therefore with this agreement from today can take shape, starting, for example, with a strengthening of the digitization of the spaces on the top floor so that they are increasingly usable to citizens for events or initiatives.”

“The objective of cultural federalism is to ensure the maximum valorization of the historic buildings in our cities and to reuse the assets with new functions, in line with broader urban regeneration projects active in the territory; all this thanks to a concrete form of subsidiarity between the state and local authorities,” said the director of the Tuscany and Umbria Territorial Directorate of the Agenzia del Demanio, Raffaella Narni. “The implementation of the transfer is part of the activities of economic, social, cultural and environmental enhancement of public real estate that the Agenzia del Demanio supports and promotes with synergistic and functional actions for the sustainable development of territories, also with reference to the processes of ecological and digital transition, in close collaboration with the central and territorial structures of the Ministry of Culture.”

“With the signing of the agreement for the redevelopment of Palazzo Strozzi stipulated between the Ministry of Culture, Agenzia del Demanio and the Municipality of Florence, a long path has been concluded, which has seen the three administrations involved in a series of stages related to the process of state-owned federalism,” added Giorgia Muratori, director of the Regional Secretariat Ministry of Culture. “The fundamental step in this process, so that the subsequent transfer of assets of historical-artistic interest to the requesting entity can then take place, is precisely the stipulation of an Enhancement Agreement, in which the entity commits to its reutilization on the basis of an Enhancement Program. With the final deed of transfer, the property becomes the property of the territorial entity, which undertakes, among other things, to generally carry out all maintenance and care operations of the property, ensuring its easier preservation. However, the Regional Secretariat of the Ministry of Culture and the State Property Agency, precisely as a result of the signing of the Enhancement Agreement, are involved at a later stage, as they verify over time the effective use and enhancement of the transferred asset.”

Palazzo Strozzi becomes the property of the City of Florence through cultural federalism

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