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Presentations

Presentation of the book “Vita mia. Japan 1943. Memories of an Italian girl in a prison camp” by Dacia Maraini

30 Jan 2025
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30 Jan 2025

Thursday, 30 January 2025 at 6:00 PM, in the Italo Calvino hall, we host the writer Dacia Maraini who presents the book Vita mia. Giappone 1943. Memorie di una bambina italiana in un campo di prigionia (Rizzoli, 2023), in the week in which Holocaust Remembrance Day is commemorated. 

Conferences

Public conversation Santa Maria della Scala and its future with Architect Luca Molinari

21 May 2025
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21 May 2025

On Wednesday, May 21, in the Italo Calvino hall, architect Luca Molinari will speak with representatives of Odile Decq, Studio LAN and Hannes Peer to present the design competition for the restoration and enhancement of over 18,000 sq m of the Museum Complex. The goal is to strengthen its cultural and educational mission.

Xenos. Festival of performances

Xenos. Festival of performances - program November 16

16 Nov 2025
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16 Nov 2025

From 13 to 16 November the Antico Ospedale Santa Maria della Scala Foundation presents the second edition of Xenos. Performance festival.

Xenos. Festival of performances

Xenos. Performance festival - program November 13

13 Nov 2025
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13 Nov 2025

From November 13 to 16 the Antico Ospedale Santa Maria della Scala Foundation presents the second edition of Xenos — a festival of performances.

Exhibitions

Metamorphoses of the Sacred

14 Nov 2025
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11 Jan 2026

The Santa Maria della Scala museum complex in Siena will host the exhibition Metamorphoses of the Sacred from 14 November 2025 to 11 January 2026, the first institutional solo exhibition of Teodora Axente.

Xenos. Festival of performances

Xenos. Performance Festival - program November 14

14 Nov 2025
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14 Nov 2025

From November 13 to 16 the Antico Ospedale Santa Maria della Scala Foundation presents the second edition of Xenos. Performance festival.

Xenos. Festival of performances

Xenos. Performance festival - program 15 November

15 Nov 2025
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15 Nov 2025

From 13 to 16 November the Antico Ospedale Santa Maria della Scala Foundation presents the second edition of Xenos. Festival of performances.

Xenos. Festival of performances

Xenos. Performance festival

13 Nov 2025
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13 Nov 2025

From 13 to 16 November the Antico Ospedale Santa Maria della Scala Foundation presents the second edition of Xenos. Performance festival.

Events

Siena delivers checkmate

11 Feb 2026
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15 Feb 2026

From February 11 to 15, the Santa Maria della Scala museum complex hosts Siena fa Scacco Matto, a series that intertwines chess, culture, art and artificial intelligence, transforming the game into a lens for interpreting the present.

Exhibitions

CONSTELLATIONS. Italian Art 1915 – 1960. From the collections of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena and Cesare Brandi

17 Oct 2024
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30 Mar 2025

The exhibition explores Italian art between the two world wars and the early '60s, featuring works by great masters and Sienese artists, offering new perspectives on the collecting practices of the time.

Initiatives

“Photography readings” IV edition

15 Mar 2025
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16 Mar 2025

On Saturday, March 15 and Sunday, March 16, 2025, the initiative "Letture di Fotografia" returns to Santa Maria della Scala, created by the Siena Foto Club (SFC) in collaboration with the Antico Ospedale Santa Maria della Scala Foundation. This two-day event, now in its fourth edition, is entirely dedicated to the promotion and knowledge of photography.

Film screening

Documentary film MARIO VERDONE: THE CRITICAL TRAVELER

15 Dec 2024
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15 Dec 2024

On Sunday, December 15th at 5:00 PM, in the Italo Calvino room, the documentary film Mario Verdone: the traveling critic, by Luca Verdone, will be screened.