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iGuzzini lights for the new home of the Museo Alinari

The Museo Nazionale Alinari della Fotografia occupies a space of 800 square metres, which is divided into two floors.

The scenography, created by the Oscar-winning Giuseppe Tornatore, involves darkness and light alternating within the space, accompanying the visitor “in the immense recesses of the memory”. Le Perroquet projectors applied to tracks, Cerchio and Shuttle fixtures are used to illuminate what Tornatore calls “a dive into the beginning of time".

The “time” in question is our history, retold in the huge photographs captured by the photographers working for Fratelli Alinari and collected over the 150 years during which the company has been operating.
Then comes the photographic equipment: cameras, lenses, frames and cases, each object in its own way bearing witness to this extraordinary visual journey.

There is a special path dedicated to blind visitors: here, images may be “seen” with the hands, the walls are fitted with a handrail and there are rough strips on the floor which can be used to identify directions and potential obstacles.

MNAF, Florence
ex Complesso delle Leopoldine (the ex Leopoldine Complex)
Piazza Santa Maria Novella