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The "Centro e Museo Didattico Nazionale" (National Educational Center and Museum) is a library of educational information with access on Michelangelo Buonarroti road in Florence. Created in a building already owned by the family Gerini, was renovated in 1941, with the interior decoration by Giovanni Michelucci. The complex occupies an entire block with gardens, with a side on Piazza dei Ciompi and another on the Via dell'Agnolo. Was founded in 1937 in Florence under the patronage of the Minister Giuseppe Bottai, the National Museum of the School, which became associated in 1941 with the "National Learning
Center, directed by Professor Nazzareno Padellaro, assisted by Piero Bargellini as deputy director. In the same year it was assigned to the Institute, which had been housed in three large rooms of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences being Laura, the new final seat of Palazzo Gerini in Santa Croce. The historical medieval building, owned by the City since the second half of the nineteenth century, was consolidated and restored by Ezio Zalaffi, then head of the Office of Fine Arts, which, among other things, also re-designed the new renaissance facade on the front facing east. The 1941 project also includes construction of a building next to Palazzo Gerini, but the expansion was never realized because of the war. Giovanni Michelucci was entrusted with the architectural design of the interior that he made in collaboration with some promising students like Leonardo Ricci and Giuseppe Gori, son of the ebony Gregorio Gori that, in his shop in Via della Dogana, built all the furniture of the National Learning Center. The same Michelucci also designed the project for the planned expansion that was never realized, whose drawings are now preserved in the archives of the same library of educational information. Substantial damage to the furnishings, especially those on the ground floor, following the 1966 flood. The surviving pieces, survivors of the devastating fury of the Arno, was dismembered and scattered in other rooms of the building, while some are now at the Fondazione Michelucci Giovanni of Fiesole.
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