Fondazione Luigi Rovati

Fondazione Luigi Rovati, established by an entrepreneurial family in the pharmaceutical sector, is an open and inclusive cultural institution that promotes knowledge, creativity and social value through multidisciplinary projects. In September 2022, the Foundation opened a museum space for exhibitions, research and experimentation where Etruscan, modern and contemporary artworks stand side by side, offering the public an experience that integrates archaeological heritage with contemporary artistic practices.

The Museum is located at Corso Venezia 52 in a 19th-century palazzo restored and redeveloped by MCA – Mario Cucinella Architects — a renovation that integrates historic spaces with newly created areas. The galleries are spread across several levels: from the Hypogeum floor, characterized by innovative stone architecture and polygonal display cases, to the Piano Nobile, whose 19th-century rooms are reinterpreted through site-specific interventions by contemporary artists such as Giulio Paolini, Francesco Simeti and Diego Cibelli. The museum houses an important collection of Etruscan artefacts, dating from the 9th to the 1st century BCE, drawn from funerary and settlement contexts in central Italy. These are juxtaposed with works of art from the 20th and 21st centuries, presented in a display that highlights the formal, iconographic and material affinities between the ancient and the contemporary. Alongside its permanent collection, the museum stages temporary exhibitions organized in collaboration with national and international public and private institutions.