M9 Museum of the Twentieth Century

Mestre Museum and the "M9" ("Museum of the Twentieth Century"). The latter is a project involving an area of ??about 9000 m² located in the center of Mestre between the streets Poerio, Brenta Vecchia and Pascoli, more precisely in the areas called the former Matter barracks, the former Pascoli barracks and the former Volpato property.

M9 will be a newly conceived cultural center, with a museum, exhibition spaces, a media library-archive, areas for educational activities and services to the public.

M9 was created to make the past known, understand the present and have faith in the future: it will be a place in which to represent, study and question modernity and contemporaneity.

M9 is an ambitious and demanding urban regeneration operation, which the Foundation has been carrying out for several years for the realization of what will be a reference point for the city and the metropolitan area at the center of which Mestre insists.

It will be a center in which architectural quality, innovative services and new collective spaces will crown a newly conceived cultural institution, capable of offering a rich, varied and attentive cultural schedule to the needs of different audiences.

Once the works are completed, the Museum will have a permanent exhibition (Museo del Novecento), various temporary exhibitions, an auditorium and a media library.

The objectives of the intervention are: the redevelopment of the area, making places hitherto not accessible to the public, the coexistence of historic buildings with new architecture and the creation of a cultural center for the city.

The areas were purchased in 2008 by the Venice Foundation, which implemented the project by entrusting the design to the winner of an international competition, which was attended by Carmassi Studio di Architettura (Italy), David Chipperfield Architects (Great Britain / Italy), Agence Pierre-Louis Faloci (France), Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos (Spain), Sauerbruch Hutton (Germany) and Souto Moura Arquitectos (Portugal).

Map: M9 Museum of the Twentieth Century