One of the most important music and theatre museums in the world will see its visitors increase exponentially from May of this year. La Scala’s Museum attracts around a quarter of a million visitors a year, but with more than twenty million people expected to attend Milan’s Expo, a good many will find their way to the city centre and to one of the world’s greatest theatres.
The opera and ballet season for the May to October period is ambitious, but the Museum – which is housed inside La Scala’s main building - will be offering special events too. One of these is to facilitate access for disabled visitors. The Accessibility Project is starting now and aims to be at the forefront of innovation among Italian museums for making this period structure accessible to all.
Alexander Pereira, the theatre’s General Manager and Artistic Director, said,
The Museum is considered to be one of the essential destinations for visitors to Milan. For this reason, and to celebrate Expo 2015, in addition to the permanent exhibition and the temporary exhibits that are dedicated from Salvatore Fiume, to Turandot at La Scala, to food in opera and to ballet, we have developed a series of exceptional initiatives: guided tours with chamber concerts, tableau-vivants dedicated to food, a photography contest and the restoration of two fortepianos belonging to Giuseppe Verdi. ...continue reading.
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