New directors announced for 20 of Italy’s top museums

18 August 2015

Eike Schmidt takes over at the Uffizi as part of Dario Franceschini's overhaul of Italian museums. (ZUMA Press, Inc / Alamy)

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
Enrica Pagella

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