Large-scale leadership restructuring in Italian museums, with Eike Schmidt stepping down from the Uffizi artmajeur.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from artmajeur.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Florence museum chief has been named director of Naples's Capodimonte with new leaders also appointed in Milan and Rome as part of right-wing government strategy
A selection committee appointed by Italy’s Ministry of Culture on December 15 revealed a change in leadership at ten of the country’s major museums, with directors not in possession of an Italian passport being shown the exit.
Eike Dieter Schmidt, the current director of the Uffizi Galleries in Florence and a possible candidate in mayoral elections in the Tuscan regional capital next year, has been chosen by Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano to be the new director of the Capo. (ANSA)
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