From the bank headquarters, over 300 works of art, including paintings, sculptures, tapestries and ceramics, will take on a new digital life for the benefit of the community.
From Filippo Lippi to Perugino, from Caravaggio to Tintoretto, from Hayez to Canova and Boccioni, up to Andy Warhol and the youngest contemporary artists, with the first Virtual Museum of banks operating in Italy, over 300 thousand works that the Italian banking sector contributes to protect, preserve and enhance, will be accessible to the public with a simple "click".
The MuVir is a technological infrastructure, which has the objective of sharing the artistic heritage of the banks in Italy, small and large, with the Italian and international public, through the digitization and cataloging of the works, the creation of a portal where the works will be consultable and accompanied by historical-artistic information and the creation of a virtual three-dimensional museum within which the public can move, deciding from time to time how to create their own personal exhibition to be able to share with other users of the network.
The project of the virtual museum of the banks operating in Italy was presented today by the President of ABI Antonio Patuelli, in the presence of the Minister of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, Dario Franceschini, and the Director of the Vatican Museums, Antonio Paolucci.“ The Virtual Museum - said President Patuelli - will be a large permanent digital exhibition of paintings, sculptures, friezes, photographs, ceramics, coins and furnishings, kept in the palaces and private collections of Italian banks. For visitors - continues the President of Abis - whether they are schools, academies, universities, individuals, it will be possible to consult and use the heritage that the banks will share as study and in-depth material: everyone will be able to create their own autonomous museum itinerary among the masterpieces kept by the banks participating in the project.
The Virtual Museum of Banks operating in Italy will play a decisive role in the widespread dissemination and communication of the works of art owned by the banks, which constitute a significant part of the national cultural heritage. “ The MuVir is an ongoing project, given the large amount of works involved in the operation, and will open its doors in the spring of 2016 with the first "digital wing" of the museum dedicated to the 26th and XNUMXth centuries; the sections of the museum will gradually become larger thanks to the involvement of the banking institutions present in Italy which, starting from XNUMX November, will be called upon to set up the rooms by inserting cards and photographs of the works they own.
