By now, you’ve probably heard about Rome’s world-famous Free Museum Sunday initiative – that monthly first Sunday when state museums throw open their doors for free. This is a nationwide initiative in Italy, but of course Rome attracts a significant number of tourists at this time, due to the sheer amount of museums in the […]
As announced in the previous post on this subject, the very first Free Museum Week is here! Settimana dei Musei, as it has been dubbed by Italy’s culture minister Alberto Bonisoli later last year, will replace the very popular Free Museum Sundays. How does Settimana dei Musei work? State museums and archaeological sites across Italy […]
Tourists planning their Italian holidays around the wonderfully generous “Free Museum Sundays” scheme may have to change their plans when they visit in 2019. In order to avoid the huge queues originating at the most popular sites on the first Sunday of the month, Italian culture minister Alberto Bonisoli has announced the end of the […]
by C. P.
Italy’s newly appointed minister of Culture Alberto Bonasoli has hinted at the imminent scrapping of the extremely popular free entrance to state-run museums on the first Sunday of each month. Mr. Bonasoli has said that the initiative is untenable in financial terms and that many smaller museums are struggling because of the “obligation to keep […]
