March 04, 2021

Galleria Degli Uffizi/ ©Pixabay 

Italy's most beloved art is on the move — quite literally. “ART CAN’T SURVIVE ON BIG GALLERIES ALONE,” Eike Schmidt, the director of Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, told CNN. The idea is to "create a different type of tourism." He’s pursuing a plan for the Italian museum to send some of its works to smaller museums and exhibition sites in the surrounding region of Tuscany, to create jobs, draw attention to lesser-known areas, and relieve a potential tourist crunch once travel resumes. The plan, called Uffizi Duffusi, which means "scattered Uffizi," will showcase the art from the gallery's deposit in buildings throughout the region, in essence turning all of Tuscany into one big museum. The project hopes to start rolling out this summer. It will include at least 60 sites. One possible site is the Forte Falcone on the island of Elba, where the Uffizi hopes to show works related to French military leader Napoleon.
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Florence's Uffizi Gallery, one of the oldest museums in the world, houses remarkable 13th to 18th century works from the likes of Botticelli, Correggio, da Vinci, Raffaello, Michelangelo, and Caravaggio.

On top of helping disperse crowds, the project also hopes to help the local economies. "It's also important at a local level, creating new jobs and work that will be stable," Schmidt said to CNN, adding that there are already 3,000 pieces of art in the Florence gallery. "The Uffizi Diffusi will bring to light works of art that currently nobody can see in a calmer, more intimate setting."

The exhibition series isn’t ready to launch yet, but “we are going every week to Tuscan cities that are asking us to join the project,” a museum representative told Artnet News in an email.

The Uffizi has stayed busy despite lockdown. It developed a surprisingly robust TikTok presence, and acquired a piece by street artist Endless for a forthcoming gallery of portraits by contemporary artists. This year also saw the museum launch a new YouTube cooking show, #Uffizidamangiare featuring Tuscan chefs preparing local dishes that are connected to works on view at the institution.