Sangiuliano: we need to split up some major museums, display works from repositories

Splitting some of Italy’s major museums to show works from the repositories to the public. The idea, already announced a few weeks ago by Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano when he spoke of “Uffizi 2,” was reiterated the day before yesterday during a visit to Palazzo Fuga in Naples. “The idea that I also put in the programmatic lines of the ministry that I presented to the united Culture Committees of the House and Senate,” Sangiuliano said, “is to be able to split some great museums that are part of the Italian imagination.”

“Italy,” the minister recalled, “has 5 million works of art, of which we exhibit only 480,000. If foreigners had what we have in storage they would do wonders. For example, yesterday the director of the Mann also sent me his proposal on some collections that can be allocated here but which I guarantee you are world-class collections, I wish the Americans or Germans had them.” It is therefore necessary, according to the owner of the Collegio Romano, “to make usable also what we have inside the repositories.”

Sangiuliano suggests that in this operation a role could be played by Palazzo Fuga itself, home of the Real Alberto dei Poveri: “we have recovered the resources to intervene on Palazzo Fuga, which I know very well because I am a native of this neighborhood and every time I have passed by here, I have looked at this building so large, so monumental and wondered how much potential such a building could have, which properly renovated, reactivated, can be a lung of culture for Naples, which is having so much ability to attract tourists who must, however, cross the culture, history, identity, community sediment of this city.”

Meanwhile, a meeting with ministry technicians is scheduled for Monday, to be followed by another meeting with those from the City of Naples, with the idea of reaching an agreement between the ministry and the city within a month. The minister said that Palazzo Fuga will have to be an “open space.” There is already talk, however, of a project for the urban enhancement and regeneration of the Real Albergo dei Poveri and Piazza Carlo III, Via Foría, and Piazza Cavour, which will be financed by the MiC with a total sum of 100 million euros (plus an additional 15 million planned for the increase in raw material costs), and which is part of the national plan for complementary investments (PNC) to the PNRR. The minister is working to recover additional resources, with the aim of making the largest historic social infrastructure in the city of Naples usable again and restoring the monument’s social and cultural vocation.

There are many imagined destinations for the new Real Albergo dei Poveri. There has been much talk (also with considerable polemical aftermath, and the matter therefore is still in doubt) of transferring the National Library of Naples to Palazzo Fuga, but there is also talk of opening a “MANN 2” in the building, so that the many works that now lie in the deposits of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples can be exhibited. In addition, the Federico II University will have a space here, on the model already realized in East Naples in the San Giovanni district.

In any case, interventions are already planned for the consolidation of the structure, architectural reconfiguration of the volumes, restoration activities, recovery and reuse of the central courtyard and connective, plant arrangement and arrangement of the spaces and in all the operations necessary for the settlement of the new use. The amount of the work, including safety charges, is 67,140,000 euros to which are added the cost of supplies services totaling 9 million euros and personnel costs amounting to 3 million euros. Currently, it appears that the strengthened technical and economic feasibility project is being completed for the second half of February, which will be followed by project verification and then contracting with the company awarded the contract.

Sangiuliano: we need to split up some major museums, display works from repositories

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