Restoration Conversations at Sant'Orsola Museum

Join us on-line on October 8, 2024 for the premiere broadcast of Restoration Conversations at the future museum of Sant'Orsola. Presenter Linda Falcone speaks with Museum Director Morgane Lucquet Laforgue on-site at this former convent, soon to transform into a permanent hub for art, culture and craftsmanship.

Construction will soon begin at the future museum of Sant'Orsola, and we're set on capturing the space as it now stands, a testimony to centuries of women's history, turned exhibition space for contemporary artists.

We'll explore the ancient complex's visible foundations and comtemplate the alleged burial site of Leonardo's Mona Lisa (Lisa Gherardini) who lived at Sant'Orsola with her daughter, after being widowed.

Ph. Juliette Minchin at work on site, ph. Sant'Orsola Museum, ph. Cinestudio Italy

The museum, scheduled to open in 2026, is still a 'construction site', and temporary home to etheral sculptural works by contemporary French artist Juliette Minchin, which evoke the convent's Baroque history and continue to trasform before the visitors' gaze. Momumental fresco-like drawings by Italian artist Marta Roberti draw us into the rooms where Sant'Orsola's all-female community lived and worked from the 1300s onwards.

Museum Director Morgane Lucquet Laforgue on-site, ph. Cinestudio Italy

The premiere broadcast begins at:

7 pm in Italy, 6 pm in the UK, 1 pm EST, 10 am PST  

Tune in on YouTube at: @calliopeartsrestoration