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Milan, 1 February 2021 – The opening program of the Milanese cultural institutes follows the planning of the cultural, scientific and artistic activities that have never stopped during the periods of forced closure due to the pandemic emergency: restoration projects, rearrangement of the collections, programming of temporary exhibitions, reorganization of services and constant training and teaching activities. The program therefore consistently foresees a gradual path which, starting from Tuesday 9 February, sees the opening of all the exhibitions set up in the exhibition venues and civic museums. Some museums and permanent collections will reopen to the public on Tuesday 16th, while in the first week of March - from 2nd to 7th, coinciding with Museocity (4th to 7th March) - a series of inaugurations, artistic and cultural initiatives will mark a complete and definitive rebirth of art in our city. 

The new provisions that place Milan in the yellow zone allow the reopening of museums and exhibition venues from Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays. 

“The cultural policies of the Municipality of Milan are primarily based on the protection and valorisation of the civic heritage, an activity that has been planned and carried out with great commitment and planning ability on the part of all managements during these long months of forced closure – he states the councilor for culture Filippo Del Corno –. For this reason, it is necessary to safeguard the programming of activities still underway in some museums, which will return renewed routes and new services to the city. But we must also be aware that exhibitions, whether permanent or temporary, accompany visitors on a journey of personal knowledge and collective growth, therefore they perform a public service of great value for the entire community. I therefore believe it is essential to keep the doors of museums and exhibition spaces open even on weekends, when workers, students and families have the concrete possibility of accessing them". 

From 9 February, from Tuesday to Friday, the following exhibitions already set up in the various venues will reopen: some inaugurated and then closed to the public since last 4 November, others set up during the closing period, never open to the public and can only be visited up to now in virtual form, told through videos and images on the web. 

In particular, it will be possible to visit “Divine e Avanguardie. Women in Russian art” and “First, woman. Margaret Bourke-White” at Palazzo Reale (10-19.30), “Carla Accardi. Contexts” at the Museo del Novecento (10-19.30), “Giuseppe Bossi and Raffaello” at the Castello Sforzesco (10-17.30), “Under the Sky of Nut. Divine Egypt” at the Archaeological Museum (10-17.30), “Orticanoodles. Inside” at the Francesco Messina Studio Museum, “The first season of Gianni Dova” at Casa Boschi di Stefano (10-17.30), “The great Inca road” at Mudec (Sala Khaled Assad). The exhibition “Luisa Lambri. Self-portrait”, set up at the PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, will instead open on Tuesday 16 (times 10-19.30). 
Starting from February 16th, again from Tuesday to Friday, it will again be possible to visit or rediscover the permanent collections of Castello Sforzesco (opening hours 10am-17.30pm), Civic Aquarium (opening hours 10am-17.30pm), GAM|Galleria d'Arte Moderna (opening hours 10am-17.30pm), Palazzo Moriggia | Museum of the Risorgimento (10am-17.30pm), Palazzo Morando | Costume Fashion Image (10am-17.30pm). 
To access the exhibitions and museums, booking is not necessary, but always recommended. 
Finally, on March 2, a special week dedicated to the opening of the city's museum system will begin, in conjunction with Milano Museo City, which will feature the Museum of the Twentieth Century and the Museum of Natural History, with rearrangements and new sections, and Palazzo Reale which will inaugurate “The Ladies of Art. Stories of women from the 500th to the 600th century”, a large production dedicated to the artists who lived in that period: Artemisia Gentileschi, Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, Elisabetta Sirani, Fede Galizia, Giovanna Garzoni, and many others. 

At the Fabbrica del Vapore, from 2 February to 2 May, it is possible to visit the exhibition "Frida Kahlo - The chaos inside".