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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.

WHERE WE ARE

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

TEMPORARY EXHIBITION

BURTYNSKY: Extraction / Abstraction, the largest retrospective on the over forty-year career of the great Canadian artist Edward Burtynksy, will be open to the public from 21 June 2024 to 12 January 2025 at M9 - Museo del '900, Venezia Mestre. This is the Italian premiere, following the success at the Saatchi Gallery in London (UK).
Curated by Marc Mayer, former director of the National Gallery of Canada and the Musée d'Art Contemporain in Montreal, the exhibition traces the work of Burtynsky, who has dedicated his life to witnessing the impact of human action on our planet.
BURTYNSKY: Extraction / Abstraction features more than 80 large-format photographs, 13 high-definition murals, 1 augmented reality experience and a never-before-seen section, Archive of Process, which will showcase the tools and cameras Burtynsky used over the years in the course of his tireless work around the world. The exhibition also includes the award-winning immersive multimedia projection In the Wake of Progress, which will be screened in the new M9 room "Orizzonti".

EDWARD BURTYNSKY - BIO
Edward Burtynsky is considered one of the world's leading contemporary photographers. His extraordinary photographic representations of industrial landscapes are in the collections of more than eighty major museums around the world. Major exhibitions include Anthropocene (2018); Water (2013) organised by the New Orleans Museum of Art & Contemporary Art Center, Louisiana; Oil (2009) at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.; China (2005 five-year tour) and Manufactured Landscapes (2003) at the National Gallery of Canada.