The Italian culture minister, Dario Franceschini, has just announced the new directors for 20 of the country’s leading museums. The appointments form part of a sweeping set of reforms intended to revitalise Italy’s troubled cultural sector. Each of the ‘Magnificent 20’ museums will be granted financial autonomy as part of the measures – and now we know who will lead them.
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Galleria Borghese
Rome
Anna Coliva
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Galleria degli Uffizi
Florence
Eike Schmidt
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Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
Rome
Cristiana Collu
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Gallerie dell’Accademia
Venice
Paola Marini
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Museo di Capodimonte
Naples
Sylvain Bellenger
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Pinacoteca di Brera
Milan
James Bradburne
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Reggia di Caserta
Mauro Felicori
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Galleria dell’Accademia
Florence
Cecilie Hollberg
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Galleria Estense
Modena
Martina Bagnoli
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Gallerie Nazionali d’Arte Antica
Rome
Flaminia Gennari Santori
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Galleria Nazionale delle Marche
Urbino
Peter Aufreiter
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Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria
Perugia
Marco Pierini
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Museo Nazionale del Bargello
Florence
Paola D’Agostino
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Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli
Paolo Giulierini
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Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Reggio Calabria
Carmelo Malacrino
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Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Taranto
Eva Degl’Innocenti
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Parco Archeologico di Paestum
Gabriel Zuchtriegel
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Palazzo Ducale
Mantua
Peter Assmann
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Palazzo Reale
Genoa
Serena Bertolucci
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Polo Reale
Turin
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