Beginning of June Sandro Debono, senior curator of National Museum of Fine Arts, visited Utrecht. As always an intensive programme was waiting for him. Accompanied by Gertrud van Dam, Christa Stoop and Hans Sakkers Sandro visited several museums and met curators and managing directors. Sandro was struck by the quality and visions of his colleagues. Also the different ways of how the management was organised with an artistic and a financial manager was of big interest. After a few days he flew back to the island, inspired and filled with good ideas for cooperation.
Working on the removal of the museum and facing the 2018-ambition Sandro was happy that he had the possibility to enlarge his network and discuss future exchanges. Further more he was invited by Centraal Museum (Utrecht city museum) to join the international committee that is working on a large project for 2018 regarding Caravaggio and the Utrecht school of Caravaggist painters. This happens in cooperation with Edinburgh and Toledo.
Suggestions for cooperation that came along were for example research on the Maltese collection of Dutch artworks and next its exhibition. This can happen together with Central Museum en St Catherine's Convent. In general it would be interesting to work on long term loans with several museums in Utrecht. But also inspiring lectures by managing directors from the museums would be really nice. In the following months Sandro and Heritage Malta will work on the operational meetings along with the museum people involved.
