Museums - Finestre sull'Arte

"Ministry's challenge? Growing smaller museums." Alessandra Guerrini (Museums Liguria) speaks.

"The challenge is to grow the smaller museums, to make them the hubs on the territories of the National Museum System." This, according to Alessandra Guerrini, head of the new Regional Directorate National Museums Liguria, is the main goal of the lat...
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MACAM, a large new contemporary art museum, opens in Lisbon. Which incorporates a hotel

Lisbon 's cultural and artistic scene is being enriched with an important new addition: the Museu de Arte Contemporânea Armando Martins (MACAM) opened its doors to the public on March 22. The museum was born from the private collection of Arman...
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Cristiana Perrella is the new director of the MACRO in Rome

MACRO - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma has a new director: she is Cristiana Perrella, chosen after weeks of evaluations and one among no less than 44 applications. Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri and Culture Councillor Massimiliano Smeriglio made th...
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In Lucca, among the splendors of Palazzo Mansi and its National Museum.

He had been to Lucca, the father of American realist literature. William Dean Howells had arrived in Lucca one day in April, leaving from Pisa under a sun that already at eight o'clock in the morning seemed hot and sickening, he who was used to the c...
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Gaudenzian cartoons in Turin's Pinacoteca Albertina, a unique Renaissance treasure in the world

It makes no noise, the brush brushing against the canvas. Not even a slight rustle, not even the faintest crinkle. The bristles distribute the color caressing the surface of the canvas without making themselves heard. The paintings are born in silenc...
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The Domus Mazziniana in Pisa, a place of memory of the Risorgimento

The Domus Mazziniana, set in the historic heart of Pisa, can be considered a monument of extraordinary historical and cultural significance. Heir to the Rosselli-Nathan House, the last home of Giuseppe Mazzini, where the patriot drew his last breath ...
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The Pacinotti Fund, a heritage of science and innovation at the Museum of Physics Instruments in Pisa

The Museum of Physics Instruments at the University of Pisa is one of the most prestigious institutions in Italy for the preservation and study of the history of science and physics. It is here that a unique and valuable core collection is preserved ...
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Stories of disease and care in the Museum of Pathological and Paleopathological Anatomy of Pisa

"If [...] rare affections of Viscera, or of Parts, morbid concretions, etc., are encountered, these pathological pieces shall be scrupulously collected, and prepared for preservation for the instruction of Physicians, and Surgeons. Thus, for example,...
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