For the year 2025, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia presents an interdisciplinary programme that, as always, embraces historical periods, multiple themes and interests, with its formulation and expression in all the museum venues.
They range from exhibition projects such as L’oro dipinto. El Greco e la pittura tra Creta e Venezia, the most recent exhibition in the Doge’s Apartments in the Doge’s Palace, to initiatives for the 300th anniversary of the birth of Giacomo Casanova. This will be an opportunity to investigate a many-sided figure, part of whose story is set in the Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo, with a focus on fashion in the period and its legacy, a myth between history and cinema.
During the 19th Architecture Biennale, the Poema della vita umana by Giulio Aristide Sartorio, an intense and timeless narrative of human existence, created especially for the central saloon of the 1907 International Exposition, will exceptionally be reunited at Ca’ Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art. The Centro Culturale Candiani is in turn preparing to present a new insight into the 20th century through the work of one of its great and tormented protagonists: Edvard Munch.
As always, particular attention will be paid to educational projects involving schools, families and children, as well as the general public. Museums are homes for everyone, ecosystems of knowledge, immersive places of experimentation, regions of memory and stories. And they increasingly involve intergenerational and intercultural dialogues, with activities devised for adults or school-age children from different countries and cultures, with different social histories, in keeping with the goals of the 2030 Agenda that MUVE has set itself to achieve.
We will continue to look at young people carefully to develop formative activities related to the demands of work, drawing on the great enterprise of culture by offering extensive and varied opportunities for internships and apprenticeships. These are available to students, recent graduates, researchers and PhD candidates wishing to specialise in the museological, historical-artistic and scientific sectors.
Part of this vocation is the adventure that has seen MUVE act in work areas adjacent to museums, such as the design of the Caffè Letterario and the artist residencies in the Emeroteca dell’Arte in Piazza Ferretto in Mestre. Comprising thirteen studios for young artists, places studied, designed and built to best accommodate their activities, they encourage exchanges and dialogue between the community of artists who already live in the city centre.
Last but not least is MUVE’s task of enhancing the heritage. A transversal, open and dynamic commitment, a continuous challenge for such a wide and varied network of museums, active in the uniqueness and, at times, criticalities of Venice.