The Museum of the Risorgimento in Venice between past, present, and future

On Thursday, May 7th, the fourth event of the VeneziE 2026 Project conference cycle took place at the Candiani Cultural Center

The Museum of the Italian Unification in Venice between past, present, and future, the conference of the VeneziE 2026 Project curated by Andrea Bellieni, head and curator of the “Correr Museum and the Clock Tower”, unfolds along the main track of respect and attention to history and the call of its regulations. With the gaze that Bellieni directs towards the general project of future revision in light of the current absence. A clever and in-depth excursus on the uprisings of 1864 and everything that the Museum of the Italian Unification in Venice contains. Among relics and documents, but also works of art, which represents a significant peculiarity, with the museum and its archives intent on describing history but also adorning themselves with beauty. But it is the gaze elsewhere, beyond, that “worries”, so much so as to trigger a real debate on the probable or hypothetical future location rather than on modern modes of enjoyment. Among dualisms that belong to the mainland and to Venice, a true open match with the search for a point of convergence regarding the communication related to the new space. All open files, and in the background the caution and the will not to deplete an objective heritage but also the desire to reinterpret the past with a new and willing perspective, in order to extend it to other historical periods, with the future waiting and addressing the past and present.