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Musja is the new private museum in Rome. A unique artistic experience
Musja is the new private museum in Rome that offers a unique artistic experience – combining a permanent collection of the twentieth century with temporary installations of contemporary art – in a historical building of high architectural value, rooted in the heart of Rome.
Musja preserves the precious cultural heritage and the vast collection of the founder Ovidio Jacorossi, composed of about 2500 works – including paintings, sculptures, design and furniture – which will be presented in rotation at dedicated exhibitions or as part of new exhibition projects with a careful look at the most innovative trends of the contemporary international scene.
“Musja provides the community with an art collection that represents the result of a long human and entrepreneurial history. Musja wants to make a tangible contribution to the cultural exchange and promotion of the society”.
– Ovidio Jacorossi, President of Musja
Musja is the new private museum in Rome that offers a unique artistic experience – combining a permanent collection of the twentieth century with temporary installations of contemporary art – in a historical building of high architectural value, rooted in the heart of Rome.
Musja preserves the precious cultural heritage and the vast collection of the founder Ovidio Jacorossi, composed of about 2500 works – including paintings, sculptures, design and furniture – which will be presented in rotation at dedicated exhibitions or as part of new exhibition projects with a careful look at the most innovative trends of the contemporary international scene.
“Musja provides the community with an art collection that represents the result of a long human and entrepreneurial history. Musja wants to make a tangible contribution to the cultural exchange and promotion of the society”.
– Ovidio Jacorossi, President of Musja
History
Jacorossi Group
Musja is the result of the Jacorossi group’s decades of experience and the determination that has always inspired Ovidio Jacorossi: to promote contemporary art as an instrument of creativity for the individual and for the company, with the aim of making it accessible to as many people as possible.
In a parallel path between art and business, based on the idea of the centrality of man in the economic process, Jacorossi’s experience attests the value of generational continuity in family businesses.
Musja was born in Via dei Chiavari, distictive place of the Jacorossi family: here Agostino, Ovidio’s grandfather, began his entrepreneurial adventure in 1922 with a small coal shop. At the premature death of his father, the young Ovidio and his brother Angelo, still teenagers take control of the business, transforming the company, between the ’80s and ’90s, in the tenth Italian industrial group. The Jacorossi brand is thus one of the protagonists of the country modernization process, placing itself at the forefront of the energy sector, flanking this with some side activities always linked to innovation and the development of new technologies.
Mission
Art and Enterpreneurship
For the Jacorossi Group, art and business are a winning combination, based on the awareness that the pursuit of profit and the collective interest can find a meeting point through art, which thus becomes a powerful tool for communication and
promotion. Over the years, the Group has supported numerous initiatives, starting from the new technological infrastructures provided for the Guggenheim Museum in Venice, in 1984.
In 1990, the group invested in Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome and in 1992 in Palazzo Ducale in Genoa. Jacorossi came to manage at the same time 20 collateral activities (ticket office, surveillance, photo library, cafeteria, restaurant bookshop). This intuition led to “ legge Ronchey” with which Italian State issued subsequently a new law to regulate the criteria to entrust ancillary activities in museums and public exhibition spaces.
Location
The Space
Musja is situated in the historical center of Rome, in a space conceived by Ovidio Jacorossi and renovated in 2017 by the architect Carlo Iacoponi. The restoration project has enhanced the uniqueness of the structure – about 1,000 square meters – set within a historic building that has arised on the ancient ruins of the Teatro di Pompeo.
The intervention carried out preserving the presence of architectural elements from different ages – from the Roman to the Renaissance – such as the sixteenth-century courtyard, crossed by the exhibition space thanks to an evocative transparent vault that reveals the overall view. Hints of frescoes, capitals and pilasters emerge among the works of art, creating a continuous play of mirrors between the contemporary and the ancient history of this place.
History
Jacorossi Group
Musja is the result of the Jacorossi group’s decades of experience and the determination that has always inspired Ovidio Jacorossi: to promote contemporary art as an instrument of creativity for the individual and for the company, with the aim of making it accessible to as many people as possible.
In a parallel path between art and business, based on the idea of the centrality of man in the economic process, Jacorossi’s experience attests the value of generational continuity in family businesses.
Musja was born in Via dei Chiavari, distictive place of the Jacorossi family: here Agostino, Ovidio’s grandfather, began his entrepreneurial adventure in 1922 with a small coal shop. At the premature death of his father, the young Ovidio and his brother Angelo, still teenagers take control of the business, transforming the company, between the ’80s and ’90s, in the tenth Italian industrial group. The Jacorossi brand is thus one of the protagonists of the country modernization process, placing itself at the forefront of the energy sector, flanking this with some side activities always linked to innovation and the development of new technologies.
Mission
Art and Enterpreneurship
For the Jacorossi Group, art and business are a winning combination, based on the awareness that the pursuit of profit and the collective interest can find a meeting point through art, which thus becomes a powerful tool for communication and
promotion. Over the years, the Group has supported numerous initiatives, starting from the new technological infrastructures provided for the Guggenheim Museum in Venice, in 1984.
In 1990, the group invested in Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome and in 1992 in Palazzo Ducale in Genoa. Jacorossi came to manage at the same time 20 collateral activities (ticket office, surveillance, photo library, cafeteria, restaurant bookshop). This intuition led to “ legge Ronchey” with which Italian State issued subsequently a new law to regulate the criteria to entrust ancillary activities in museums and public exhibition spaces.
Location
The Space
Musja is situated in the historical center of Rome, in a space conceived by Ovidio Jacorossi and renovated in 2017 by the architect Carlo Iacoponi. The restoration project has enhanced the uniqueness of the structure – about 1,000 square meters – set within a historic building that has arised on the ancient ruins of the Teatro di Pompeo.
The intervention carried out preserving the presence of architectural elements from different ages – from the Roman to the Renaissance – such as the sixteenth-century courtyard, crossed by the exhibition space thanks to an evocative transparent vault that reveals the overall view. Hints of frescoes, capitals and pilasters emerge among the works of art, creating a continuous play of mirrors between the contemporary and the ancient history of this place.