Fabrizio Palenzona, Aeroporti di Roma, New exhibition space to inaugurate on the 12th of October 2011 at Rome’s Leonardo Da Vinci Airport
Visitors
to Rome will soon be able to get their first taste of great Italian art
as soon as they touch down on the tarmac. Rome’s
Leonardo Da Vinci Airport (also known as Fiumicino) has plans to inaugurate a new exhibition space on the 12th of October 2011.
Every
year more than 36 million passengers pass through the Roman airport.
Planners have devised a permanent exhibition hall that will allow them
to transform part of the airport into an introduction to Italian
cultural heritage for tourists to experience as soon as they step off
the plane.
The art hall will be located in Terminal 1, which is
already home to a temporary display of the most prestigious ‘Made in
Italy’ brands. The new space, however, will host a permanent art
collection modelled after the Amsterdam airport which has set up a
branch of the city’s famous Rijksmuseum on site.
It is only
fitting that the permanent space at Fiumicino airport will first host a
Leonardo Da Vinci exhibit when it opens its doors next week.
FONTE: Italymag.co.uk