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The official tourism website of the Municipality and Metropolitan City of Florence
Kinder Art is the new project starting at Marino Marini Museum to help children approach art and use their creativity.
The Museum, with its suggestive exhibition of equestrian sculptures and Pomone (nude curvacious female statues), is set in a beautiful ancient building turned into a contemporary art venue. The new art workshops for children and families will take place in an outdoor area of the museum, made accessible just for this purpose.
The motto of the project is “art apprentices”: it consists of activities held by the museum operators. The children can participate on their own or with their parents.
Come try out the workshops for families which have started in October, 2022. Here is the schedule.
Marino Marini Museum is in piazza San Pancrazio, near Santa Maria Novella.
The Marino Marini Museum, dedicated to the famous 20th-century Italian sculptor, is housed in the former church of San Pancrazio, where Renaissance lines are combined with modern renovation.
It is a monographic museum that houses 184 works by sculptor Marino Marini (1901-1980), arranged according to the artist's instructions in the choice of materials and natural lighting of the rooms. The works were created between 1916 and 1977. The exhibition, spread over the different levels of the church spaces, includes bronze and concrete sculptures of very different sizes, polychrome plaster casts and canvases, portraits and drawings. Exhibitions dedicated to various 20th-century and contemporary artists are periodically held in the crypt.
The Tempietto del Santo Sepolcro (Temple of the Holy Sepulchre) by Leon Battista Alberti, a Renaissance work with precious marble inlays, rich in allegorical meanings, is also on display.
