The project for the Italian museum abroad is underway!

The Minister of Cultural Heritage and Tourism Dario Franceschini has given the green light for the project which aims to promote Italian art and culture around the world through the museum.

The project

The enormous reservoir of historical, artistic and archaeological finds present throughout the peninsula is not a mystery. From fossils to weapons used during the Second World War, passing through the great works of Leonardo up to official documents from the Roman era. Italy certainly does not lack exhibition material, indeed it appears to be one of the countries with the highest number of museums and exhibitions in the world.

This great variety of objects, however, does not always manage to find a place along the corridors of our museums and it often happens that ancient paintings, medieval manuscripts or imperial armor are piled up in some warehouse waiting for an exhibition dedicated to them.

The Director General of Museums Ugo Soragni seems to have identified in these warehouses a possible growth opportunity for Italian culture through the annual or biennial loan of these works to other foreign institutes.

Franceschini and Soragni thus found themselves discussing and organizing what will be a kind of traveling exhibition, with several of our works dusty in some warehouse to give light and visibility to Italian culture in some museums across the border.

There are numerous advantages of this operation. The possibility of rediscovering forgotten ancient jewels, the opportunity to carry out restoration works and the opportunity to empty the now overflowing deposits of the various Italian museums are just some of the many benefits that this project can guarantee to the legacy left to us by our ancestors.

The museum in Italy

The history of museums in Italy already begins in ancient Rome with the great villas of the nobles often used as real exhibitions with the aim of impressing those present and leaving a living testimony of their deeds.

After a period certainly not as exciting as the Middle Ages, the museum comes back to life in the Renaissance with the birth of exhibitions such as the Uffizi Gallery, the Vatican Museum and the Capitoline Museums in the XNUMXth century. But it was the Italian Unification that started the diffusion of the numerous local exhibitions, thanks to the institution of the civic museum and a greater awareness of the value of the historical and artistic heritage of the area.

However, these museums were often set up inside ancient disused buildings, not always of adequate size to house the many works that were recovered by experts every day. Thus arose the need to use deposits so as not to leave the finds unattended. In the long run, however, some of these deposits ended up being abandoned to themselves, undermining the integrity of their precious contents.

With the project you will therefore have the opportunity to recover those forgotten treasures left to collect dust and humidity in some forgotten room. And it will be done in the best way, that is by promoting Italian culture in the world.

Italian museum abroad last edit: 2016-07-24T19:43:32+02:00 da Gabriel Roberti

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