Tomaso Montanari calls for a decision on the future of the Ginori Museum: open letter to the Minister of Culture

“I am therefore to ask you, even publicly, to promptly make a decision for the future of the Museo Ginori, whatever it may be”: these are the words that conclude the open letter from the President of the Fondazione Museo Archivio Richard Ginori della Manifattura di Doccia, Tomaso Montanari, to Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli.

In fact, the Foundation has been stuck for months due to the failure to renew the Board of Directors, which expired last October 20, 2024. “In early December,” the open letter reads, “the ministerial decree appointing a new board was ready: the undersigned as president, and the other members as directors, we had already given our assent to the new appointment, sending the necessary personal documentation. At that point, however, the process of signing the decree suddenly and inexplicably stalled, and no one from the Ministry responded to the repeated requests for compliance received from the Foundation’s other members: the Region of Tuscany and the City of Sesto Fiorentino.”

The result of the non-renewal of the Board of Directors is that now the Foundation “finds itself forced to perform only the acts strictly necessary for its survival, suspending all other activities. Thus the park open to the public closes, loans to exhibitions, external collaborations and educational initiatives are discontinued. And decisions regarding the design of the new museum’s layout are suspended, just when, finally, the construction site is open.”

Montanari emphasizes how “in the past four years, the Board of Directors and the Assembly of Members have made every effort to bring the Ginori collections back to life, and to accelerate the birth of the new museum,” thus not understanding “the reason for the inertia that causes this abrupt halt.”

Everything is now stuck waiting for a decision from the Ministry of Culture, which hopefully will come soon.

Tomaso Montanari calls for a decision on the future of the Ginori Museum: open letter to the Minister of Culture

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