FLORENCE: THE UFFICES SHOW THEIR MASTERPIECES IN DIFFERENT PLACES
With a focus on the region of Tuscany.
16 March 2021
Anyone who has ever been to Florence and also paid a visit to the Uffizi knows how big the crowds can be in front of the museum. In order to keep the crowds in check even after the Corona crisis, museum director Eike Schmidt came up with the plan to simply divide the artworks across the region. Under the motto "Uffizi Diffusi," the masterpieces can be found in up to 100 different locations, but most of them in the Tuscany.
"Uffizi Diffusi": When works of art go on tour
Uffizi director Eike Schmidt has already done a lot to minimise the rush to see the valuable works of art. After all, before the pandemic, masses of people queued up at the ticket office every day to get a glimpse of the museum's inner rooms and the art treasures. To keep the crowds in check and return the focus solely to the art, Schmidt advocates decentralizing the treasures. "Uffizi Diffusi," which roughly translates to "Scattered Uffizi," brings him one step closer to his goal. "Art cannot survive only in big galleries," Schmidt told CNN. We need multiple exhibition spaces throughout the region - especially in the places where art itself was born."
In the future, selected art collections of the Uffizi will be found in up to 100 different locations in Italy. The focus, however, will still be on the region of Tuscany. The new exhibition venues are not to be chosen at random, however, but are to be linked to the origin of the works of art. This is to boost a new slow tourism, moreover, it will create stable jobs in the region, as Schmidt CNN reports. According to the Uffizi director, the current strategy of the Italian media is too focused on overseas tourists.
From da Vinci to Michelangelo
Surprisingly, the rush to the Uffizi Gallery has never been. Special works from the 13th to the 18th century are in the museum. Artists such as Botticelli, Corregio, Raffaelo, Caravaggio, da Vinci and Michelangelo are exhibited. In the future, the treasures will be on display in Livorno and in two Medici villas on the outskirts of Florence. But the Forte Falcone fortress on the island of Elba is also to become an art venue.
It is not yet known when the project will start.
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