Loans for exhibitions in Italy and abroad

The General Director for Book Heritage, Cultural Insitutes, and Copyright, Dott. Maurizio Fallace, communicates that:

• the Exhibition "Leonardo da Vinci. Drawings from Biblioteca Reale in Turin" will be held in the United States.
  For the first time, most of the drawings collection by Leonardo, preserved in the Biblioteca Reale in Turin, will be led beyond the Ocean.
  The event sites will be: Birmingham, (Alabama) in the Museum of Art from 28th September through 9th  November 2008 and San Francisco, (California), in the Fine Arts Museum from 16thNovember 2008 through 4th January 2009.
  Are now in progress contacts with the E.L.Wiegand Foundation to transfer the exhibition in Rheno (Nevada) as well;
  
  
• the exhibition "Beyond Boundaries, Islamic Art across Cultures" will be held Quatar,  in Doha in the Museum of Islamic Art from 22nd November 2008 through 22nd February 2009.
  For the event the loan of the manuscript Al-Muradi, Ibn Khalaf al Muradi, Kitar al-asrar fì nata ij afkar (book of secrets about the results of toughts), Orientale 152 has been authorized. It is preserved in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence;
  
  
• will be held in Alicante (Spain) from 5th November 2008 through 4th January 2009, in the Lonja del pescado, the exhibition "Alicante, un puerto para un rey. Alfonso el Magnanimo entre dos mares".
  On the occasion of the event, foreseen within a wide scheduling, to commemorate the 8th Centenary of King Jaime I's birth, will be displayed works preserved Medicea Laurenziana, Nazionale Centrale di Firenze e Nazionale di Napoli Libraries. 
  
  
• From 2nd November2008 through 1st February 2009 will be held in the city of A Coruña (Spain), in the Sala municipal de exposiciones en palexco, the exhibition “The City in the age of Alfonso IX”.
  On the occasion of the event, foreseen within a wide scheduling, to commemorate the 8th Centenary of the People Card, considering as the foundation act of the City of A Coruña, will be displayed works preserved in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence and in the Società Geografica Italiana, whose library is subject to State bond.