Julia Buckley, CNN • Updated 7th May 2021
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(CNN) When Florence s Uffizi gallery reopened this week after another government-imposed lockdown, it was with a fanfare.
After a six-month closure for renovations, the second floor of the gallery home to 15th- to 17th-century works of art by the likes of Titian, Caravaggio and Tintoretto has finally reopened. The area which makes up half the museum has been under steady renovation since 2018.
But there was a surprise in store for the 1,516 visitors who visited on reopening day, May 4. Not only are there 14 new rooms and 129 works of art newly on display, but the new Uffizi is allocating space to artists who have historically been excluded from the canon: women and people of color.
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A revamped Uffizi Galleries in Florence reopened to the public on Tuesday after more than two months of closure, offering visitors a first glimpse of 2,000 sq. m of new exhibition space containing never before displayed works.
The museum recorded 1,516 visitors on day one of the reopening, suggesting a nascent recovery after ticket sales have been decimated during the lockdowns.
“There is a great thirst for culture,” Eike Schmidt, the museum’s director, told the ANSA news agency yesterday. “We hope that the recovery can be solid and permanent. We are optimistic.”
Italy’s most visited museum has been hit hard by the pandemic, with annual visitors falling to 1.2 million last year from 4.4 million the year before as successive lockdowns have forced repeated closures. Daily visitors averaged between 5,000 and 6,000 before the pandemic, reaching 12,000 on busy days, an Uffizi spokesman tells
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