Friends of the Uffizi Gallery aned richly-draped lower part were added by Alessandro Algardi, an artist hired by the Medici in the 17th Century to integrate the fragments into a single sculpture. This restoration project involved removing thick layers of accumulated dust and greatly increased documentary information. Friends of the Uffizi Gallery The Friends of the Uffizi Gallery was established in 2006 in Palm Beach, Florida as the United States "sister" organization to the Amici degli Uffizi in Florence, Italy, which was founded by a group of concerned citizens in response to the terrorist bombing of the Uffizi Gallery in May 1993 that damaged several
Keswick Museum and Art Gallery Keswick Museum and Art Gallery Keswick Museum is a museum in Keswick in the English Lake District which reopened in 2014 after extensive refurbishment of its purpose-built 1898 building. Its varied collections feature Keswick’s landscape, history and culture. The Mountain Heritage Trust maintains a changing exhibition in the museum, which in 2014 focused on the effect of World War I on the climbing community. The museum and art gallery is owned by Allerdale Borough Council and run by the largely volunteer Keswick Museum and Art Gallery Management Ltd. The museum was founded in 1873 and had a number of temporary