Where and when
Orario
11:00 – 20:00
Museo Novecento
The Metropolitan Sunday returns on March 6, a day in which all residents of the Metropolitan City of Florence have the opportunity to visit the city museums for free.
Museum Hours
Winter Hours
Monday – Sunday
11:00 am
–
8:00 pm
Thhursday
Thanks to the support of GIOTTO, love brand of F.I.L.A. Fabbrica Italiana Lapis ed Affini and Lucart’s, citizens will also be able to take part in the numerous visits and activities scheduled in the various places.
Numerous activities await you at the Museo Novecento:
Visit to the museum
for whom: for young people and adults
times: 11.00 am, 12.30 pm
duration: 1h15 ‘
The visit allows you to retrace the twentieth century by identifying the main lines of artistic development of the twentieth century, with a strongly interdisciplinary approach and specific attention to Italy and Florence. The works in the collection are therefore the way to delve into the multiplicity and gazes of the arts of the twentieth century, characterized by the plurality of languages and research. A particular focus will be dedicated to the precious Alberto Della Ragione Collection, which includes great artistic masterpieces and which allows us to read the main historical events of the years between the two wars, and to the Ottone Rosai Donation.
Workshops for families
The gesture of painting
for whom: for families with children aged 4 to 7 years
time: 3.00 pm
duration: 1h15 ‘
Painting is not just the representation of something recognizable and legible. During the twentieth century, many artists went beyond the frontiers of figuration to venture into the world of the abstract. After a short journey inside the collection of the Museo Novecento, children will have the opportunity to experiment through a laboratory activity where color, emotions and music will merge into a single experience.
The collage, the art of choosing
for whom: for families with children aged 6 to 12 years
time: 4.30 pm
duration: 1h15 ‘
In collage, a purely twentieth-century technique, no brushes, colors or pastels are used, but a “choice” is made by selecting and critically overlapping details of images, photographs, magazines, writings and more to create and compose something new. After a short visit to the museum, in which the works that have their distinctive trait in the “composition” will be highlighted, the participants will be able to try their hand at the execution of a portrait / self-portrait in the form of a collage / décollage which, overcoming the idea of realistic reproduction, including emotions, qualities, expressions and characters of the person represented.