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Thursday 25 April and at the weekend we will also visit the UNESCO site with the Ghirlandina, the historical rooms, the Acetaia and the Terramara archaeological park
The Liberation Day on Thursday 25 April, with the long weekend lasting until Sunday 28 April, is an opportunity to visit the UNESCO site with Piazza Grande, the Ghirlandina and the historic rooms of the Town Hall, the renovated Museums of the Duomo, the Civico with the exhibition “Forbidden Enigma. Secrets and eroticism in the encrypted poem by Pietro Giannone”, and the Terramara Park in Montale which celebrates its twentieth anniversary with a festival of experimental archeology and workshops to discover the Bronze Age. But also the Fmav exhibitions with Franco Fontana’s solo exhibition and “Zitt! Shut up! Lupo Alberto arrives.” The numerous visiting opportunities and experiences that the city offers are brought together and bookable on the visitmodena tourist promotion portal.
it (www.visitmodena.it/it/25aprile).
At the UNESCO site in Piazza Grande on Thursday 25 April, Saturday 27 and Sunday 28, you can climb the Ghirlandina continuously from 9.30am to 7pm; on Friday 26th the opening hours are from 9.30am to 1pm and from 3pm to 7pm. On Saturday 27th, at 7pm, you can also take part in the themed guided tour dedicated to “San Geminiano, patron saint of Modena. The indissoluble bond between the Saint and his city” which also includes the explanation of the southern side of the Cathedral. Entrance is paid (the ticket costs 3 euros) and reservations are required via the visitmodena.it website.
The historic rooms of the town hall are also open on the bridge: Thursday 25th and Sunday 28th with entrances at 3.15pm; 16; 4.45pm; 5.30pm; 6.15pm, with reservations required (entrance 2 euros). Friday 26th from 9am to 6pm, free entry with reservations required; Saturday 27th from 1pm to 3pm, free entry.
On the same days you can take part in guided tours (by reservation) of the municipal vinegar factory: Thursday, Saturday and Sunday at 10.30am, 11.30am, 3.30pm, 4.30pm; on Friday afternoons at 3.30pm and 4.30pm.
The Cathedral Museums can be visited on Thursday 25th and Friday 26th April from 10am to 2pm and from 3pm to 6pm; on weekends from 10am to 2pm and from 3pm to 7pm.
The Nuovo Diurno in Piazza Mazzini is also open: Thursday, Saturday and Sunday continuously from 9.30am to 7pm; Friday from 9.30am to 1pm and from 3pm to 7pm. Entrance is free.
The exhibition rooms of the Civic Museum, on the third floor of the Palazzo dei Musei, will be open on Thursday 25th, Saturday 27th, Sunday 28th April from 10am to 7pm, and Friday 26th from 9am to 12pm, with free admission. It will also be possible to visit the “Forbidden Enigma” exhibition, a journey into the mysterious world of cryptography dedicated to a manuscript by the Modenese Risorgimento patriot Pietro Giannone, which remained inviolate for a century and a half and which was recently deciphered revealing a highly licentious content.
On the ground floor of the Palazzo dei Musei, the Giuseppe Graziosi Plaster Cast Gallery will also be accessible free of charge on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 1pm and from 4pm to 7pm, and the adjacent Roman Lapidary.
The Estense Gallery is also open at Palazzo dei Musei: Thursday, Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 6pm; Friday from 8.30 to 19.30 (admission fee; for information: gallerie-estensi.beniculturali.it/galleria-estense-modena).
Over the weekend for the Liberation Day, the Terramara di Montale archaeological park celebrates its twenty years with guided tours, sound installations in the reconstructed huts of the village which will lead visitors to hear the sounds of life over three thousand years ago, archeology demonstrations experimental and workshops for children. For information: www.parcomontale.it.
Throughout the holiday weekend you can also visit the exhibitions of the Modena Visual Arts Foundation starting with “Modena Inside”, the solo exhibition of the great photographer Franco Fontana which inaugurated the new exhibition spaces of the former Estense Hospital. Entrance costs 6 euros. At Palazzo Santa Margherita, at the Figurine Museum, the exhibition “Zitt! Shut up! Lupo Alberto arrives. Silver, 50 years as a wolf” which celebrates half a century of the blue wolf created by Silver together with the entire McKenzie farm. Also at Palazzo Santa Margherita you can also visit “Corrispondenze”, the exhibition dedicated to young photography which features the unpublished works of seven emerging Italian artists produced starting from the work of one of the masters of the past present in the Fmav collections. All Fmav exhibitions can be visited on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm; Friday, from 11am to 1pm and from 4pm to 7pm (information: fmav.org).
In the former church and in the nuns’ hall of the San Paolo complex (via Selmi 63) throughout the weekend you can visit “Pandemonium”, the solo exhibition of the Modenese artist Sergio Padovani: a visionary and at times disturbing journey in his most recent work (Thursday and Friday from 4pm to 7pm; Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 1pm and from 4pm to 7pm, free admission).
