Following the Covid-19 emergency breakout, technology is supporting the tourism and art industry, virtually bringing the artistic and cultural beauties of our country to the houses of all citizens.

The virtual tour is an excellent way to discover the territory, while we are waiting to enjoy the inestimable artistic heritage of our beautiful country, in real life.

Here are some alternative ways to experience Verona through an innovative experiential activity.

The Covid-19 emergency has forced the closure of museums all over Italy, but the pandemic is not stopping art! The Musei Civici in Verona participate to the awareness campaign # iorestoacasa , launching the hashtag # MuseoAgile .

The Museums of Verona and the collectors, joined forces to create a mini video virtual tour and made it accessible through social channels and institutional websites.

An unmissable opportunity to travel through history and art while staying at home.

The first two museums that joined the initiative were the Castelvecchio Museum and the Natural History Museum. By sharing multimedia content and video pills called “Visti da vicino, visti sul web”, viewers can virtually enjoy the collections through guided tours led by Francesca Rossi, director of the Civic Museums of Verona and Leonardo Latella, head of the Zoology department of the Natural History Museum.

All the initiatives are available on the official website of the Civic Museums of Verona ( https://museicivici.comune.verona.it/ ) and the social channels.

The voice of Francesca Rossi, director of the Civic Museums of Verona, will guides you on a surprising walk among the artworks of the Castelvecchio Museum, one of the most important museums in the city of Verona. With its 29 exhibition rooms, it presents collections of medieval, renaissance and modern art until the eighteenth century.
The museum, restored in the late 1950s under the guidance of the designer Carlo Scarpa, is located in the Scaligera fortress of Castelvecchio.
Starting from the courtyard of the Piazza d’Armi and continuing into the suggestive Sculpture Gallery, one of the most preserved parts of Carlo Scarpa’s exhibition, it is possible to retrace the spaces and works of the museum through free videos available online.
Among the various works, you can admire the Madonna della Quaglia by Pisanello and the details of the Holy family of Mantegna.

The Civic Museum of Natural History is housed in the Palazzo Lavezzola Pompei, an important sixteenth-century building in the city of Verona, that was commissioned by the wealthy Lavezzola family to the architect Michele Sanmicheli

The building has prestigious scientific and naturalistic collections inside the sixteen exhibition rooms that are dedicated to the minerals and rocks, paleontology and zoology. The museum, of inestimable artistic and cultural value, also plays a central role in the scientific research and the dissemination of the naturalistic culture.

As part of the “Seen up close, seen on the web” initiative: the museum enters the homes of citizens thanks to its multimedia content uploaded to social channels. Numerous collections are presented on the web: from herbaria to invertebrates and hornets, to moths. Important space is then dedicated to conservation and research.

The museum-house was opened to the public in 2020 and it offers numerous initiatives through its Facebook ( @ palazzomaffei ) and Instagram ( @ palazzomaffeiverona ) pages. Some events are dedicated to Mario Schifano, Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso, René Magritte, Marcel Duchamp, Renato Guttuso and Emilio Vedova, Leandro Erlich .

Don’t miss #caffèapalazzo: videos featuring in-depth analysis of the various works.

A new way of promoting tourism through the digital world, making art democratically available to everyone.