The nourishment of the spirit is beauty, it is art. Taking the right steps on the first day of the new year according to tradition is essential so that they are repeated over the following months. So why not spend a few hours in the company of some of the most beautiful works of art that Italian museums, the public collections scattered in the corners of history that our cities narrate, the archaeological areas in which to retrace the most ancient history?
MILAN
Most of the museums in Milan will be closed during the first of the year but there are important exceptions. Here they are: Palazzo Marino, headquarters of the Municipality of Milan in Piazza Scala where the painting by Filippino Lippi "The Annunciation" is exhibited, in the Sala Alessi, which will be open from 9.30 to 20.
Also open Royal Palace, which currently houses the works of Giorgio De Chirico, the images of the photographer of Palermo and the mafia Letizia Battaglia and the Guggenheim collection, which can be visited between 14.30 and 19.30 pm.
The first of the year speaks the language of art even in Three-year, a museum institution dedicated to design, architecture, visual, scenic and performing arts in viale Alemagna 14, which will be open to the public from 14.30pm to 20.30pm.
also the Galleries of Italy, entrance from Piazza della Scala 6, will remain open on January 14.30 from 19.30 to XNUMX and will allow visitors to appreciate the exhibition on stage until next March on an unprecedented confrontation between the Italian Canova and the Danish Thorvaldsen.
Al Mudec (Museum of Cultures) of Milan, in via Tortona, it will be possible to admire the exhibitions dedicated to "Impressions of the East" and to the photos of Elliot Erwitt from 14.30 to 19.30 pm.
Il Contemporary art pavilion in via Palestro it will be open on New Year's Eve from 14.30pm to 19.30pm. The Castello Sforzesco remains closed.
Roma
The Capital will see some of its historic places closed, but it will be possible to visit the contemporary art hosted at MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Palazzo delle Esposizioni from 16 to 20 pm, i Capitoline Museums, Trajan's Markets, the Ara Pacis Museum and the Palazzo Braschi Museum of Rome. It will be possible to visit the archaeological area of the Circus Maximus from the 10.00 16.00.
NAPLES
They will be open in the Neapolitan city the National Archaeological Museum of Naples from 14 to 19.30 pm and Palazzo Zevalloss by 10: 00 20 to: 00
FLORENCE
Il Boboli Gardens will be open on January 1 from 10:00 to 16:30. Also open Palazzo Vecchio Museum from 14 to 19 and the Brancacci Chapel. In Florence it will be possible to visit also Palazzo Strozzi between 10 and 20 and Santa Maria Novella from 13 to 17.30.
TURIN
Many museums are open in Turin: from the Cinema Museum to the Egyptian Museum, from the Reggia di Venaria to the Agnelli Art Gallery which features Hokusai Hiroshige Hasui on display. Journey to a changing Japan, to the Intesa Sanpaolo skyscraper which hosts the exhibition The Madonna and Child by Giovanni Bellini at Palazzo Madama with Andrea Mantegna. Relive the Ancient, Build the Modern.
Meanwhile, Sunday January 5 makes Sunday at the Museum, the initiative introduced in July 2014 by the Minister for Cultural Heritage and Activities and for Tourism Dario Franceschini, which provides for thefree entry at all museums and state archaeological parks every first Sunday of the month. Thanks to this initiative, the doors of the Royal Palace of Caserta, the Pinacoteca Brera, the Royal Museums of Turin, the Museum and Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples, those of the National Archaeological Museum of Reggio Calabria, the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica, the Cenacolo Vinciano in Milan, the excavations of Herculaneum, the National Galleries of Ancient Art – Palazzo Barberini and Galleria Corsini in Rome, the Miramare Castle in Trieste, the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome, the Galleries of the Academy in Venice in Castel Sant'Angelo, the National Archaeological Museum of Taranto, the Uffizi, Pompeii and Paestum.
