FLORENCE, ITALY – The Uffizi will soon have 100 branch locations throughout Tuscany. In February it was the director of the Gallery, Eike Schmidt, who announced the project and yesterday the Tuscany Region also decided to support it with a specific Tuscan law.
“It will take time, it will not be possible to do everything in a year – said Schmidt – but the goal is to expand the Uffizi museum to many other wonderful places in Tuscany, such as the Medici villa Ambrogiana in Montelupo Fiorentino, where we will bring hundreds of artworks, which after all will return home, because they were welcomed there in the seventeenth century”.
“Art cannot live only in large exhibition centers – continued Schmidt -, it is necessary to have a polycentric perspective of art distributed as much as possible on the territory, and, where possible, in the places where and for which it was born. Uffizi we already have over 3000 works on display, there will be more, but that’s okay. This project will be used to bring artworks that no one can currently see, almost to people’s homes”.
An endorsement to the project came from the president of the Tuscany Region, Eugenio Giani, who announced the launch of a specific law to make the project possible and from the president of the Culture Commission of the Tuscany Region, Cristina Giachi.
“This project gives the opportunity to connect artworks with places, reconstructing a sort of history of the territories, capable of giving a boost to culture and art”, said Giachi. The municipality of Scandicci yesterday gave its availability of places to host the Uffizi project.
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