With Italy almost entirely "yellow", in these hours there is a thread of hope that binds Italian museums, while preparations are underway in view of the finally possible openings starting today:
from Rome to Milan, from Turin to Genoa , from Parma to Florence and Trento, Naples, Perugia, the places of culture are ready to reopen, "thawing" old exhibitions and setting up some new ones, always ensuring compliance with the virus containment measures
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Alongside the enthusiasm, however, there remains the fear that this could turn out to be a "false start": if the epidemiological situation were to worsen again, the museum programming could stop again and would be the coup de grace in a context of full-blown crisis, after the forced closure for over a year and the museum coffers now empty. For this reason, the first critical voices have already arrived: such as that of the councilor for culture of the Municipality of Milan, Filippo Del Corno, who at least as regards cultural spaces hopes for "a new provision that includes non-reversible openings", or that of the director of the Egyptian Museum of Turin, Christian Greco, who asks colleagues from other cities to join in a collective action for the establishment by the MIC of "an ordinary funding fund, to be guaranteed with public and private resources to take care of the collections ".
For the moment, however, fingers are being crossed and from today many doors reopen, with the hope that the empty rooms will fill up again. The Capital is ready: for example, two weeks of special events are scheduled at the Galleria Borghese, including visits at noon with the director Francesca Cappelletti explaining two recently restored works from the collection, Minerva in the act of dressing up by Lavinia Fontana and Venus what a blindfold Love by Titian. The Civic Museums System of Rome will also welcome visitors from Monday, with the opening of the Capitoline Museums, Trajan's Markets, the Ara Pacis Museum, the Imperial Forums and the Mausoleum of Augustus.
From the 27th then, in addition to the archaeological area of the Circus Maximus, all the other museums of the circuit will open, including Centrale Montemartini (where the exhibition "Colors of the Romans. The mosaics from the Capitoline collections" will be inaugurated), Museum of Rome, Museum of Rome in Trastevere, Gallery of Modern Art. The MAXXI and Palazzo Barberini will also reopen on the 27th and the Quadriennale d'Arte will do the same thing at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, an exhibition that, with its 43 artists on display, has so far only been available for 33 days and will be extended until 18 July. .
Great reopening also in Milan: from 26 it is the turn of the Gallerie d'Italia - Piazza Scala, which have extended all the exhibitions set up, including "Tiepolo. Venice, Milan, Europe", while from 27 all the museums and locations will open exhibitions of the Milanese municipality, from the Castello Sforzesco to the GAM Galleria d'Arte Moderna up to the Museo del Novecento, which is presented to the public with the complete rearrangement of the two floors of the Arengario dedicated to Italian art of the 1920s and 1950s. Among the new exhibitions opening in Milan, also "Le Signore dell'Arte" at Palazzo Reale and "Green Grand Tour" at Palazzo Morando. On 27 May the great exhibition "Ligabue and Vitaloni. Giving a voice to Nature" reopens at Palazzo Tarasconi in Parma.and in Brescia the Capitolium where the restored Winged Victory is exhibited. In Turin, the Egyptian Museum will welcome the public from the 26th, presenting the new exhibition project "In the scholar's laboratory", while from the 28th door Camera - Italian Center for Photography reopens with the inauguration of two exhibitions, "Lisette Model. Street Life" and "Horst P. Horst. Style and Glamor". In Genoa Palazzo Ducale proposes from April 28 the reopening of "Michelangelo. Divine artist" extended until July 11, while in May new exhibitions will be inaugurated (including "L'Italia di Magnum. From Robert Capa to Paolo Pellegrin") and from 7th to 28th Davide Livermore's exhibition "Oedipus. Io contagio" will be re-proposed.In Florence on the 26th doors open at Dante's House while the Museo del Novecento is planning to open 4 exhibitions, all from 28 April, including "Étoile. Titina Maselli, Salvatore Ferragamo and the myth of Greta Garbo".
On Tuesday 27 April the Boboli Gardens will also be accessible; while for Palazzo Pitti and the Uffizi (with 14 new rooms dedicated to Florentine, Roman and Emilian 16th century painting) it will be necessary to wait until May 4th. In Campania, from 26 April an intense week of reopening, with places of culture that will gradually return to citizens: in Naples, from the Maschio Angioino to the PAN, Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino, from the Museum and the Real Bosco di Capodimonte at the Royal Palace, and then the Royal Palace of Caserta, the archaeological park of Pompeii and the Roman Theater of Benevento. In Umbria, starting from April 27, the museums belonging to the Regional Directorate of Museums of Umbria will gradually reopen until May, from the National Archaeological Museum of Orvieto to the Ducal Palace of Gubbio.
From Tuesday also the three locations of the Mart in Rovereto will be open with regular hours (among the exhibitions also the one dedicated to Giovanni Boldini), while in Venice the Gallerie dell'Accademia will reopen to the public from the 28th and for the occasion it will be returned to the visit. after two years of restoration work, the Palladian corridor.