mood guides

The mood guides offer visitors a new way of exploring the museum’s interior and exterior spaces with a selection of ad hoc music that communicates what eyes see during the visit.

A series of playlists on MAXXI’s Spotify channel collects and narrate the museum’s mood, its architecture, its significant events, and current exhibitions. From time to time, the selection is curated by music critics and recognised names in the sector for an ever closer interweaving of the different arts that find a natural meeting point at MAXXI.

Take your smartphone – at MAXXI, wherever you are – put on your favourite headphones and press play.

• summer at MAXXI 2022 click to discover the playlist

  
  Summer means groove, the desire to stay out late and sway your head in time to the music. This summer’s mood guide follows the programme of #estatealMAXXI and emphasises aspects of it without wanting to be didactic. It is music designed as background music, but also not.
  concept and musical selection by Emiliano Colasanti

• the Museum click to discover the playlist

  
  To look up, get lost and find oneself, look around, and move even when standing still. Ambient music but not only. MAXXI’s architecture takes on sound and is transformed into music.
  concept and musical selection by Emiliano Colasanti

• GOOD NEWS women in architecture click to discover the playlist

  To accompany this journey through the female evolution of the architecture profession, from the pioneers of the early 20th century to the archistars of today, from multidisciplinary collectives to large international studios led by female designers, we thought of taking a similar journey through the history of electronic music composed by women. From Dalia Derbyshire to Laurie Anderson and Suzanne Ciani to contemporaries such as Caterina Barbieri, Kelly Lee Owens and Holly Herndon.
  concept and musical selection by Emiliano Colasanti

• senzamargine click to discover the playlist

  
  Without a margin, without borders. A playlist designed to accompany the journey between the various works and rooms, to follow a path, but also to stop, go back and start again. It can be taken as a flow or as a single counterpoint to the works on display. It works both ways; it’s up to you to figure out which one suits you best.
  concept and musical selection by Emiliano Colasanti

• summer at MAXXI 2021 click to discover the playlist

  A summer of encounters, unrepeatable appointments, characters and many words. Auteur music, above all, but not only: in this playlist you will find some explicit and implicit references to the various artists, musicians and writers who visit us at MAXXI.
  concept and musical selection by Emiliano Colasanti