With museum storage spaces bursting with long-hidden artistic treasures, Italy’s Ministry of Culture has announced it will begin returning some to their original locations in a bid to spread the country’s masterpieces throughout the peninsula.
The project will begin by relocating 100 works from some of Italy’s most important museums, including the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan and the Archeological Museum of Naples. Dubbed “100 works return home”, the scheme is an opportunity for paintings and sculptures rarely exhibited to be seen by the public and, in some cases, in the locations for which they were originally conceived. As such, the artworks will
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