January - March

At FPM we started the year on a positive and excited note as we reminisced about the past and got ready to celebrate 30 years of the Foundation!

After the success of the first two seasons Francesca Balzan returned with her podcasts, Treasures from Malta, talking to more inspiring and entertaining guests. In this season we hear from Matty Cremona,Timmy Gambin, Suzanne Sharp, Daniel Cilia, Nico Conti, Joan Abela, Renzo Spiteri and Carmel Said.

The mini blog on Victor Pasmore and his contemporaries, Contrasts and Comparisons, which started at the end of last year, continued.The monthly blog shows a work by Pasmore alongside another by a Maltese modern artist.

Palazzo Falson celebrated International Women’s Day with a specially curated tour which focussed on the

Regency period.Various accessories were set up in the Drawing Room and participants were invited to try them on.

In collaboration with the Arts Society in Malta and Stella Maris College, Palazzo Falson hosted the college students to an art appreciation tour of the museum. The students then gave their own interpretations of Edward Lear’s landscape, Fomm ir-Rih.

The Palazzo also featured on The Local Traveller with Claire Agius who was shown around the museum by curator Caroline Tonna. In March the much-loved children’s workshops commenced again with the series Stejjer Griegi.