Six rooms are closed indefinitely at Rome’s Borghese Gallery due to an ongoing staff strike over payment.
The strike has been called by the FP-CGIL trade union which represents the gallery custodians. It says the workers have not been paid the overtime to which they are entitled from the management company MondoMostre.
The union has promised to continue its disruption of services until its demands are met. Meanwhile it has reduced its numbers of custodians from 20 to 11, meaning that, for security reasons, six rooms are not accessible.
The action has resulted in the gallery being only partially-open to paying guests arriving to see the recently-launched exhibition I Borghese e l’Antico which comprises 60 masterpieces on loan from the Louvre Museum in Paris.
Running until 9 April, the major exhibition includes some very well-known works such as the marble triptych depicting “The Three Graces”, that were sold by the Borghese family to the Paris museum in times of financial difficulty over 200 years ago.
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