Support for Casa Muraro

Friends of Casa Muraro Fund

The Friends fund was launched in 2017 to prepare for the future of Casa Muraro as a vibrant intellectual hub in Italy. With renovations and critical repairs to the roof, façade, and interior close to completion, the Friends fund is now poised to provide support for students, scholars, and programming at Casa Muraro. In 2023, Columbia's Summer Undergraduate Program was located fully for the first time at Casa Muraro. Courses include Italian language, culture, literature and film, art history and conservation, and history. We look forward to future programming at Casa Muraro, which will include exhibitions and support for scholarship across many fields of study.

You can become a Friend of Casa Muraro by making a gift here.

Casa Muraro Venetian Studies Fund

The Casa Muraro Venetian Studies Fund, an endowed fund, supports academic programming in the history of Venetian art, residential staffing for Casa Muraro by faculty, doctoral and postdoctoral students, and administrators, and summer fellowships for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows conducting research at collections and archives in Venice or stipends for their internships. 

You can make a contribution to the Casa Muraro Venetian Studies Fund here.

Lilian Armstrong Fellowship Fund

The Lilian Armstrong Fellowship Fund was created in 2022 to honor Lilian Armstrong (1936-2021), Columbia alumna, friend of David and Ellen Rosand, and longtime Wellesley professor and scholar of Italian Renaissance art history. The endowment will support the Lilian Armstrong Fellows, who will pursue scholarship, coursework, onsite research, or collaborative cataloguing or exhibition projects in Venice or the Veneto. They will engage with a range of subjects, including art history, Italian language, design, historic preservation and conservation, landscape architecture, literature, musical composition and performance, and visual arts. The Fund will also provide resources that will be devoted to supporting Casa Muraro, enabling graduate students to be effective in their coursework, research, or curatorial practice.

You can find out more about Lilian Armstrong and her commitment to her scholarship and her students here. Please consider supporting future generations of scholars in her honor here. Thank you!

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