Osanna’s announcement came on the sidelines of the presentation of the project The eternal contemporary. Michelangelo 1475-2025.
The initiative, coming thanks to the union between the Accademia Gallery and the Bargello Museums, is being promoted on the 550th anniversary of the Renaissance artist’s birth.
“The most important thing in 2025 dedicated to Michelangelo, and it’s wonderful that it’s happening this year, is the union between the Academy and the Bargello,” Osanna said.
He explained that the two museums will merge to create itineraries enabling visitors to tour the Accademia, then visit the Medici Chapels and the Bargello.
Visitors will also be able to visit the “secret room” of the Renaissance genius - a small area located beneath the Medici Chapels in Florence.
The room is thought to have served as Michelangelo’s hideout briefly in 1530 and it was regularly opened to the public only last year.
The alleged hideout was discovered in 1975 after the then director of the Medici Chapels Museum, in the Basilica of San Lorenzo, instructed a restorer to carry out cleaning tests in a narrow corridor beneath an apse.
Speaking about the initiative on Monday, Osanna said museums must become increasingly “dynamic”, offering local communities as well as tourists “cultural programs of great depth”.
“[The must not only promote] knowledge, but also enjoyment and emotion, because art must continue to thrill.”
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