https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Decades worth of archaeological finds are back on public display in Pompeii from this week, in what the site's management called a "sign of great hope at a very difficult moment". https://www.thelocal.it/20210127/in-photos-pompeii-displays-treasures-at-reopened-antiquarium-museum Wed, 27 Jan 2021 10:17:26 +0100 in-photos-pompeii-displays-treasures-at-reopened-antiquarium-museum More than 200 ancient coins were returned on Thursday to the Paestum museum in southern Italy by a priest who was told about the theft in confession. https://www.thelocal.it/20210121/remorseful-thief-returns-stolen-ancient-coins-to-italian-museum Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:31:55 +0100 remorseful-thief-returns-stolen-ancient-coins-to-italian-museum The world-famous Uffizi Gallery in Florence is celebrating after a US court barred online ticket touts from using the Italian museum's name. https://www.thelocal.it/20200207/italys-uffizi-gallery-wins-us-court-battle-with-bloodsucking-ticket-touts Fri, 07 Feb 2020 11:12:08 +0100 italys-uffizi-gallery-wins-us-court-battle-with-bloodsucking-ticket-touts Later this year, the Louvre in Paris will host an exhibition of masterpieces by the Italian painter Leonardo da Vinci to mark his death 500 years ago in France. But the work that in recent months has been the intense focus of scrutiny by the media and da Vinci specialists, may not be on show. https://www.thelocal.it/20190428/mystery-of-salvator-mundi-the-worlds-most-costly-painting Sun, 28 Apr 2019 13:21:58 +0200 mystery-of-salvator-mundi-the-worlds-most-costly-painting Tucked away in one of Rome's most fashionable shopping districts, antique doll parts pile up in the tiny shopfront of the Squatriti family boutique, offering a window into another age. https://www.thelocal.it/20180802/inside-romes-eerie-hospital-for-broken-dolls Thu, 02 Aug 2018 12:35:58 +0200 inside-romes-eerie-hospital-for-broken-dolls Thieves held up the Centrale Montemartini museum in the south of Rome on Sunday, making off with some €10,000. https://www.thelocal.it/20180416/rome-museum-robbed-centrale-montemartini Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:21:06 +0200 rome-museum-robbed-centrale-montemartini It may pong, but Italy's "Shit Museum" has the whiff of success about it: here in Castelbosco, farmers are transforming sloppy cowpats into plates you can eat off. https://www.thelocal.it/20170407/italys-farmers-turn-cowpats-intro-crockery Fri, 07 Apr 2017 10:43:22 +0200 italys-farmers-turn-cowpats-intro-crockery A painting by former Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has gone on show in an art museum on the shores of Lake Garda, as part of an exhibition on the theme of madness. https://www.thelocal.it/20170313/painting-by-adolf-hitler-exhibition-in-italian-museum-madness Mon, 13 Mar 2017 10:32:17 +0100 painting-by-adolf-hitler-exhibition-in-italian-museum-madness Pope Francis on Tuesday named Italian Barbara Jatta as the next head of the Vatican Museums, making her the first woman to take charge of the Catholic Church's artistic treasures. https://www.thelocal.it/20161221/first-woman-named-vatican-museums-rome Wed, 21 Dec 2016 10:17:44 +0100 first-woman-named-vatican-museums-rome A painting discovered in a French attic that was controversially deemed to be a Caravaggio will go on display at a top Milan museum from Thursday alongside authenticated works by the Renaissance master. https://www.thelocal.it/20161110/controversial-attic-caravaggio-to-go-on-display-at-milan-museum Thu, 10 Nov 2016 11:15:08 +0100 controversial-attic-caravaggio-to-go-on-display-at-milan-museum Italy's Culture Ministry has put out an international call for applicants in a bid to find nine new directors for some of the country's under-performing cultural treasures. https://www.thelocal.it/20160530/italy-looks-for-more-foreign-directors-as-museum-shake-up-continues Mon, 30 May 2016 12:33:46 +0200 italy-looks-for-more-foreign-directors-as-museum-shake-up-continues Rome authorities are set to build the world's first 'archaeological underground station' around an ancient Roman barracks which came to light during works to build a new underground station. https://www.thelocal.it/20160517/rome-mulls-metro-museum-after-new-line-works-unearth-ruin Tue, 17 May 2016 14:11:48 +0200 rome-mulls-metro-museum-after-new-line-works-unearth-ruin A Muslim tourist wearing a niqab – a traditional garment worn by women in public, which leaves only their eyes on show – was stopped from entering an Italian museum by police on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160429/italy-police-block-niquab-wearing-tourist-from-entering-museum Fri, 29 Apr 2016 13:59:33 +0200 italy-police-block-niquab-wearing-tourist-from-entering-museum Tiptoeing through pigeon droppings in a building where Benito Mussolini once barked out orders, the mayor sighs wearily as he recounts his long battle to get agreement on what do with the crumbling structure. https://www.thelocal.it/20160427/mussolini-museum-project-awakes-demons-of-italys-past Wed, 27 Apr 2016 10:12:07 +0200 mussolini-museum-project-awakes-demons-of-italys-past A museum in Florence was forced to call in pest control earlier this week after the building was found to be infested with ticks...and cockroaches. https://www.thelocal.it/20160421/another-florence-art-museum-is-infested-with-ticks-novecento-uffizi-cockroaches Thu, 21 Apr 2016 13:51:55 +0200 another-florence-art-museum-is-infested-with-ticks-novecento-uffizi-cockroaches Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has defended the director of a Unesco World Heritage Site after unions filed an official complaint accusing the man charged with revitalising a Versailles-style palace of working too hard. https://www.thelocal.it/20160307/italian-unions-blast-palace-chief-for-working-too-hard Mon, 07 Mar 2016 09:20:46 +0100 italian-unions-blast-palace-chief-for-working-too-hard Housed in a stunning medieval building in Perugia's historic centre, the National Gallery of Umbria might not be the first museum that comes to mind when you think of Italy. But it might be the best. https://www.thelocal.it/20160301/is-this-italys-best-museum-according-to-the-internet-it-is Tue, 01 Mar 2016 14:40:43 +0100 is-this-italys-best-museum-according-to-the-internet-it-is The Italian government is reportedly ready to break a 70-year taboo by funding a controversial museum dedicated to fascism in Benito Mussolini's hometown of Predappio - a place of pilgrimage for modern-day fans of the wartime dictator. https://www.thelocal.it/20160216/italy-government-to-pay-2-million-for-fascist-museum-in-mussolini-hometown Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:45:48 +0100 italy-government-to-pay-2-million-for-fascist-museum-in-mussolini-hometown As the visit to Europe of the Iranian President got underway on Monday, Italy showed its respect for Islamic traditions by covering up the Capitoline Museum's racier exhibits. https://www.thelocal.it/20160126/nude-statues-covered-up-for-rouhanis-visit Tue, 26 Jan 2016 11:21:44 +0100 nude-statues-covered-up-for-rouhanis-visit Nine workers at a museum in Rome have been suspended for a year for chronic absenteeism, with some clocking on each morning before heading to the betting shop. https://www.thelocal.it/20160108/rome-museum-staff-skived-work-for-the-betting-shop Fri, 08 Jan 2016 17:12:16 +0100 rome-museum-staff-skived-work-for-the-betting-shop