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Tourists admire Botticelli's Birth of Venus at the Uffizi Gallery.

Uffizi Director Speaks Out About Staff Shortages at Italy's State Museums

by Italy Magazine Staff | Tue, 08/23/2022 - 11:10

As Italy prepares for a general election on September 25, Eike Schmidt, the director of Florence’s state-run Uffizi Galleries — a group that also includes the…

Culture

Gusto: Mestre's M9 Museum Hosts Exhibition

by Myra Robinson | Tue, 07/26/2022 - 10:37

After nearly three years of decreased tourist traffic, Venice is back to its usual saturation point this summer, in part due to the Biennale Arte currently…

Culture

New Museum Dedicated to the Italian Language Opens in Florence

by Italy Magazine Staff | Thu, 07/21/2022 - 03:08

A new museum dedicated to the Italian language has opened in Florence. MUNDI, or Museo Nazionale dell’Italiano, is housed in a former monastery of the…

Culture

New Museum in Rome Displays Italy’s Recovered Art Treasures

by Italy Magazine Staff | Tue, 06/28/2022 - 05:29

Rome has a new museum. Housed within the National Roman Museum in the Baths of Diocletian, the Museum of Rescued Art will display ancient artifacts from across…

Food & Drink

Dinner at the Museum: Italy’s Most Exciting Places that Combine Art and Food

by Luciana.Squadrilli | Wed, 06/15/2022 - 12:08

To many people, cooking is considered an art. To others, comparing the two realms of human skill and imagination is more of an outrage. And in Italy, until not…

Culture

Italian Garden Museums Where Art Merges With Nature

by Liz Shemaria | Thu, 06/09/2022 - 02:03

In the hills above Lake Garda in Gardone Riviera, a former dentist to the Italian royal family and Pope Pius XII transformed a 3.7-acre vineyard into a…

Culture

Florence’s Uffizi Complex Becomes Italy’s Most Visited Cultural Site

by ITALY | Thu, 04/07/2022 - 05:45

The Uffizi surpassed the Colosseum for number of visitors in 2021, in what was a first for the famous Florentine museum complex, which also includes Pitti…

Culture

Experience Italy’s Ancient Cuisine at Rome’s Culinary Museum

by ITALY | Thu, 03/31/2022 - 03:09

Ancient books and kitchenware tell the history of cooking and eating habits from the 1400s to the present day at ‘Garum - Biblioteca e Museo della Cucina,’ the…

Culture

Pitti Palace in Florence Opens Four Sumptuous New Rooms

by Silvia Donati | Wed, 01/12/2022 - 03:12

Palazzo Pitti in Florence inaugurates the new year with the opening of four rooms that had never before been accessible to the public. The large…

Culture

The Best House Museums in Milan You Can Visit in One Day

by james.appleton | Thu, 01/06/2022 - 00:19

A striking feature of Milan is the elegant dwellings on almost every street. A stroll through Brera, the Quadrilatero della Moda or the Porta Venezia area is a…