Qatar Museums and Venice's new protocol of co-operation includes aim of restoring 'symbolic parts of the city’.
Renewable five-year agreement, announced during Art for Tomorrow conference, covers collaboration on regeneration of cultural heritage, art publications and connections between Venetian and Islamic architecture
Qatar Museums and the city of Venice have announced a protocol of co-operation, to build on their existing relationships and to develop collaboration in cultural fields, including the “implementation of structural interventions aimed at restoring some symbolic parts of the City of Venice”.
Cultural heritage, art and preservation are among the fields covered by the protocol, alongside education, business investment, sport and entertainment. The announcement of the protocol was made earlier this month during the Art for Tomorrow conference, presented in Venice by the Democracy & Culture Foundation with the conference’s founding partner Qatar Museums.
In Venice this year, Qatar Museums has produced the exhibition Your Ghosts Are Mine, Expanded Cinemas, Amplified Voices, on show at ACP-Palazzo Franchetti, on the Grand Canal, co-organised by the Doha Film Institute, Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art and the future Art Mill Museum. The exhibition runs until 24 November, covering the duration of both the Venice Biennale and the Venice Film Festival. Loans from Qatar Museums are on view in Foreigners Everywhere, the flagship international exhibition of the 2024 Venice Art Biennale, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, and in the Worlds of Marco Polo exhibition at the Doge’s Palace, including objects from the Museums of Islamic Art.
