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Modern art without barriers: Marino Marini Museum

The museum dedicated to the Pistoian sculptor and painter, based in Florence, offers a tangible and interactive art exhibition that goes beyond time, diversity and doctrine.

We often find ourselves visiting and admiring museums, artworks, and places of worship, but without really understanding their meaning. Maybe we don't have the right tools to appreciate them; or perhaps we need a different method that will break down the distance that lies between us and works which challenge our perceptions. 

This is one such museum.

In the deconsecrated San Pancrazio Church in the Florentine square of the same name, you can find the second largest collection of works by one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century, Marino Marini. The collection has been in the church since the late 1980s. While drawing up a restoration project for the renovation of the church, the architects and the Florentine administration decided to allocate the structure to cultural and social activities. The high spaces, the way the light plays and the impressive arches of the church were the perfect backdrop for the dynamism of Marini’s works. 

Knights, Etruscan goddesses, bronzes, cement pieces, paintings and portraits. A wide-ranging thematic itinerary that grants the freedom to experience art at its most expressive and contemporary.


The educational museum

How can we stimulate artistic creativity and imagination in future generations? For example, by using a museum as a place of free communication and interaction. From tiny tots to teenagers, educating about how beauty is a symbol of sociability and possibility is a message not to be lost in the world of social isolation!

Us older ones know that at any time in the future, it is convenient to be able to imagine a bronze warrior jumping onto his horse, his marvellous adventures through storms and obstacles, and ultimately conquering the castle…
Marino Marini certainly never forgot the importance of the imagination.


Routes for children (receiver of Chiavi della città (keys to the city) from the Municipality of Florence):

  1. Worth noting is the route that favours narration as a way to establish a connection with art. The path through the museum analyzes some works by Marino Marini and then focuses on one, around which a story, a poem or a nursery rhyme is invented.

  2. Emotive colours is a path that focuses on how colours create emotions, transmit sensations and communicate moods, changes, and a sense of transformation. The museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art offers children and young people an activity that invites creative expressiveness and involves them in experiments with body gestures, graphics and painting, evoking a profound and stimulating response.

  3. Con-Tatto Arte is a path focused on multi-sensoriality. At the Museo Marini, some sculptures can be touched. In this route, touch is the privileged approach to understanding the works of art in all their materiality.

  4. The ABC of art - collage is the route dedicated to the technique adopted at the beginning of the 20th century and used for the creation of avant-garde works. It continues to interest today’s artists. 


Marino Marini - the museum without barriers

Art is important for everyone, not only for young people. For adults, first and foremost, so that we never forget man's ability to shape emotions; express them, compare them and share them. Above all, it is for anyone who has obstacles in using their senses, their motor skills and their ideas.

Art knows no limits, surpasses all boundaries, and can be found everywhere.

The museum offers accessible routes, guided tours and activities for the visually- and hearing-impaired and also those with alzheimers and autism.

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