The Culture Week, become, by now, a collective party, offers from 14 to 22 April, a rich calendar of events: exhibitions, conferences, extraordinary openings, educational workshops, guided tours and concerts, which will make it even more special experience for all visitors. The fundamental objective of this initiative is to transmit the love of art and to encourage new cultural experiences through knowledge of Italian heritage, thanks to the involvement of other public and private institutions, for an extensive and widespread participation throughout the country. 'Culture is for all people: join you too' is the theme that is repeated over a few years to emphasize the universality of our heritage, unique and inimitable, that MiBAC makes available to every citizen, in order to promote greater knowledge and educate citizens to attend assiduously art sites, necessary step for an authentic civil growth, social and cultural.
In the city of Venice, participate actively at the event the National Archaeological Museum and the Monumental Rooms of Marciana Library -included in the integrated path of museums in Piazza San Marco, with entrance from the Museo Correr (Ala napoleonica) - proposing a list of short meetings in Sansoviniana Library.
At Follow the program:
Saturday, April 14, 11 am: 'Collecting antiques: from public Statuary of Venice at the National Archaeological Museum'. Greeting by Maurizio Messina (Director of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana) and Michela Sediari (Director of the National Archaeological Museum of Venice). Speakers: Irene Favaretto and Marino Zorzi. Two deep connoisseurs of history of Venice and its collections of Antiquities will telling the story of the formation of the National Archaeological Museum of Venice, one of the oldest public museums in Italy and Europe.
Wednesday, April 18, at 5 pm: presentation of the first book “dell'Edizione nazionale delle Opere di Carlo Gozzi”. Greeting by Maurizio Messina, Director of the Biblioteca Marciana. Introduction of Susy Marcon (Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana). The editors of book: Fabio Soldini (President of national edition of Carlo Gozzi) and Pier Mario Bishop (Università degli Studi Ca Foscari, Venezia). Will read some passages from published texts. In 2003 Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana has acquired the archive of Gozzi, an amazing Fund of 9,500 handwritten cards, one of which most autographs by Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806). The discovery has reopened the shipyard of “Edizione nazionale delle Opere di Carlo Gozzi”, printed by the Publisher Marsilio.
Saturday, April 21, at 11 am: 'Venezia e i leoni di Atene'. Greeting by Maurizio Messina, Director of Biblioteca Marciana. Speakers: Alexander March and Antonella Sacconi. The September 26, 1687 a bomb hurled the command of the Venetian Francesco Morosini did blow the Parthenon. The temple, arrived almost intact from the age of Pericles, becomes a ruin. Starts immediately the practice of souvenirs: the same Morosini tries to remove a part – the most beautiful – and the pediment of Phidias, but the sculptures fell on the ground and ruin. The Captain-General by the 'folds' then on the Lions. It leads to Venice, three of Piraeus and two were in Athens. The statue, that arrived after the siege of Corfù in 1716, adorn the land of Arsenal. Venice is today one of the few Italian cities to have Greek originals 'on sight'.
