Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna

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Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna is today a museum with two hearts. 

The first is the Museum's connection to the past. Its cultural history is intertwined with that of the Italian State which achieved complete political unity only in 1870 with the establishment of Rome as its capital. The first half of the 19th Century was a period of great political and cultural ferment and this is the foundation upon which the Museum stands.

 On the other hand the Museum, since its founding in 1883, has always looked to the present. It's mission being to represent "living" art. 

The fundamental tasks of the Museum are: 

    To provide the contemporary art system with its immense historic legacy. This is constituted by the national collections and their entailing bibliographical patrimony: the complete Italian archives of the 19th and 20th centuries; 

    To provide a vast panorama of international modern art; 

    To organize temporary expositions highlighting the Gallery's collections in relationship to modern and contemporary artistic realities;

    To revitalize interest in the great Italian artists of the the 1950's and 1960's.

represented artists

Alexander Calder      Carlo Carrà      Jean Fautrier      Tano Festa      Jacques Lipchitz      Fausto Pirandello      Jackson Pollock

Arnaldo Pomodoro      Mario Schifano      Mario Sironi      Antoni Tàpies