The third edition of Italy's
nationwide Museum Festival will be held this weekend, May 19-20,
on the theme "Hyper-Connected Museums: New Approaches, New
Publics".
As part of the festival, there will be special initiatives
across the entire country, guided tours, workshops and the 14th
edition of the European Museum Night, during which many museums
will be open in the evening with a one-euro entrance fee.
In Rome, some 50 museums will be taking part in the evening
opening, with shows, concerts, performances and initiatives for
children, from the Capitoline Museums to the Ara Pacis, from
Palazzo delle Esposizioni to the Casa del Cinema.
To get an overview and ideas, Rome residents and visitors can
look at the Mappa dei Musei from Giulia Sotto la Metro, which
shows the closest museum open for every underground stop.
The National Modern Art Gallery (GNAM) will have guided tours
for the various temporary exhibitions throughout the entire
weekend, including during the evening opening at 7 PM.
The show "Turner: Tate Gallery Works", with over 90
masterpieces from the British painter at the Chiostro del
Bramante, will be open until 10 PM.
Close to Rome, the focus will be on archaeology: in the sites
of the Palestrina, with the event " The Praeneste Forum: places
of justice and legality", during which there will be an
exhibition of archaeological finds from the area seized by the
authorities, as well as in Santa Severa at the Antiquarium of
Pyrgi, where there will be a route revolving around a myth that
is derived from the archaeological finds.
Archaeology will also be central in Capena, where in the
archaeological area and the Lucus Feroniae Antiquarium there
will be the event "The Labyrinth of Time: routes for the
discovery of an ancient city".
In Trieste the Museo di Miramare will organize guided tours
at the castle and the temporary exhibition "Manet and
Maximilian: a multimedia encounter", while in Milan the
Pinacoteca di Brera will encourage the public to draw to
compare with the works of artists during the event
"DisegnaBrera. La Sfida" ("Draw Brera: the challenge").
In Florence on May 19 there will be a concert entitled
"Dante's Musical Memory" with "De Vulgari Eloquentia" and
"Commedia" at the Cenacolo di Ognissanti museum space as part of
an attempt to explore the musical background of the poet's life.
The large exhibition "The Renaissance of Gaudenzio Ferrari",
underway in Varallo, Vercelli and Novara, will also be taking
part in the Museum Festival and will stay open until 11 PM.
In Forlì the show "The Eternal and Time, between
Michelangelo and Caravaggio", at the Musei San Domenico, will be
open until 11 PM, while at Ferrara's Castello Estense, the mixer
Festival will begin at 7:30 PM.
First there will be concerts by the Conservatorio G.
Frescobaldi, followed by guided tours of the Cavallini-Sgarbi
collection, where Elisabetta Sgarbi will be meeting with the
public, and boat trips to see the monument from an unusual point
of view.
At the Earth and Life History 'Biogeo' Museum in Ariano
Irpino there will be guided tours and theme-based routes to
explore the origin and evolution of life on earth, while in
Piazza d'Armi of Castel Sant'Elmo - as part of "The Starry Night
and Moral Laws: the Philosophy of Museum Night", the philosopher
Giuseppe Ferraro will be reading Kant.
In Scalea at the Antiquarium di Torre Cimalonga, there will
instead be the event "Choose an (Archaeological) Find, an Expert
Will Answer" from 7 PM.
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