M9 DISTRICT - MESTRE VENICE

M9 - MUSEUM OF THE 20TH CENTURY

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M9 - MUSEUM OF THE 20TH CENTURY 
Via Giovanni Pascoli 11
30171-Venezia Mestre, Italia
T. +39 041 0995941
info@m9museum.it

M9 - MUSEUM OF THE 20TH CENTURY, founded from a project of the Venice Foundation and inaugurated in December 2018, it is a cultural institution with an international scope and vocation. Not a traditional museum, but a permanent laboratory of the contemporary.
An innovative experiment whose ambition is to reveal the material history of the twentieth century in Italy. In fact, it proposes a kaleidoscopic tale of the twentieth century: it shows the demographic, social, political and cultural, environmental and landscape changes; presents the outcomes and ambitions, challenges and achievements, threats and opportunities that have marked Italian history throughout the last century.

The permanent collection of the Museum occupies the first and second floors of the building; It is divided into eight thematic sections and presents the Italian twentieth century through the cultural heritage that the same century produced - with a wide use of images and audio and video materials - exploiting new technologies for the narration of contents. The visit experience is interactive and characterized by immersive installations.
Thanks to the program of temporary exhibitions hosted on the third floor and spread, starting from 2021, in new spaces of the Museum, to the schedule of events for the general public and to the educational and training activities aimed at schools and all citizens and people with frailty, M9 intends to be a house open to the territory and the country, capable of promoting reflections and actions on the present and the future.

The architectural project of the Museum is signed by the Berlin studio Sauerbruch Hutton; the preparation of the permanent by the Grisdainese studio; graphic design by the CamuffoLab studio; installations from five multimedia and interaction design studios: Carraro Lab, Clonwerk with Limiteazero, Dotdotdot, Karmachina with Engineering Associates, Nema FX.

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M9 - MUSEUM OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Via Giovanni Pascoli 11
30171 Venezia Mestre
T +39 041 0995941

TEMPORARY EXHIBITION

The exhibition ARTE SALVATA. Masterpieces Beyond the War from MuMa in Le Havre will be open to the public from 15 March to 31 August at M9 - Museo del ‘900 (Venezia Mestre). This is an exhibition with a strong symbolic value, which sees the André Malraux Museum of Modern Art (MuMa) in Le Havre lend part of its collection, the most important for Impressionist paintings in France outside Paris, for the first time in history. The occasion comes as part of the celebrations for the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II that razed the city of Le Havre to the ground in September 1944, then virtuously rebuilt around its museum, a symbol of modernity and rebirth.

The exhibition, curated by Marianne Mathieu, one of the world's leading experts on Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and by Geraldine Lefebvre, Director of the MuMa, presents a nucleus of more than 50 pictorial masterpieces, dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries, miraculously survived the bombings, signed by leading artists including Monet, Sisley, Gauguin, Dufy, Marquet, Boudin and Braque.

Through these works, the exhibition aims to represent an ideal passing of the baton between two cities, Le Havre and Mestre, united by the experience of suffering caused by the characteristics of Total war, to reaffirm the importance of cultural heritage in keeping the collective memory alive and the value of art as a vehicle of resilience and rebirth.To reinforce the dialogue between the two cities, moreover, a section of the exhibition will be dedicated to an in-depth photographic and documentary look at what has happened in Mestre since the terrible bombing of 28 March 1944. It will present the redevelopment process that began after the Second World War for both the residential heritage and the industrial area.