Fondazione Memmo

In 1990 Roberto Memmo, who had always been interested in the forms and expressions of art, established a private foundation, the Fondazione Memmo, of which he became the President, together with 3 vice-presidents: Daniela Memmo d’Amelio, Patrizia Memmo Ruspoli and Claudio Strinati, who at that time was the General Director of the Italian Ministry for Cultural and Artistic Heritage.

Due to his passion for beauty and his understanding of the importance of making its values more widespread, he wished to share the creativity of the great masters with a wider public through the contemplation of works that are fundamental for the history of art. At that period very few museums in Italy had a dynamic and active approach, but the time was ripe for creating new private and public spaces for art in several Italian cities, with many of which the foundation would collaborate over the years.

In 2001 Daniela Memmo d’Amelio and Patrizia Memmo Ruspoli became Presidents of the Foundation and the founder Roberto Memmo Honorary President. The high cultural level exhibitions, promoted by the Foundation in the large exhibition space of Palazzo Ruspoli, were possible thanks to the Presidents’ desire to co-produce them with the most important museums in the world such as the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the British Museum in London, the Prado Museum in Madrid, the Louvre Museum in Paris, the National Gallery in London, the Metropolitan Museum in NY, the Center Pompidou in Paris, the National Gallery in Washington,or the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and to make use of the collaboration of the most prestigious curators such as Morris L. Bierbrier, Christopher White, Catherine Whistler, Sir Denis Mahon, Felipe Garin Llombart.

In 2012 the Memmo Foundation presents a new exhibition program entirely dedicated to the contemporary artistic panorama. The objective is to contribute to the development of a territorial cultural fabric in a global vision, connecting to international realities and promoting interaction between artists and the city of Rome, its places, its stories, its excellence in field of artistic techniques and artisan tradition.Through this new mission, the Memmo Foundation wishes to promote the present to contribute to the development of our future. Tools to achieve this aim will be the organization and production of exhibitions, performances, residencies, talks, conferences, educational workshops and publications.