MUZA - The National-Community Art Museum

MUZA

Project Summary:

MUZA is Malta’s new museum of art and flagship project for Valletta’s 2018 European Capital of Culture. The project is a National-Community Museum, the first of its kind, being developed in a historic site within the Capital City of Valletta, a UNESCO World Heritage Site built as a city-fortress. The Museum is green powered, generating its energy requirements through renewable sources, and represents a best practice in retrofitting a Maltese historic building.

Details:

Project cost: €9,147,873
Beneficiary: Heritage Malta
Ministry: Ministry for the National Heritage, the Arts and Local Government
Start Date: 2014
End Date: 2019
Operational Programme: Fostering a competitive and sustainable economy to meet our challenges
Fund: European Regional Development Fund
Focus area of intervention: Protection, development and promotion of public tourism assets; Protection, development and promotion of public cultural and heritage assets.