The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) has been named as a beneficiary of the TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund 2026, an initiative sponsored by The European Fine Art Foundation together with Bank of America, Lead Partner of TEFAF New York. The joint contribution of the fund and the Bank of America Art Conservation Project™ concerns the conservation of the Italian Renaissance tapestry The Meeting of Dante and Virgil, a 16th-century work considered to be of particular rarity and historical significance. It is the only antique Medici tapestry preserved in a public collection outside of Italy.
The TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund, established in 2012, supports conservation interventions and scientific research activities on works preserved in public collections. The 2026 edition marks the first occasion in which the fund is earmarked for the restoration of a tapestry, thus expanding the program’s scope of intervention.
