Venice - While in Venice everything is ready for the 14th. International Architecture Exhibition, which will open on June 7th, 2014, in the mainland the works for the M9 - the future museum of the 20th Century - go on. This new urban regeneration project, which is anticipated as a new cultural centre of international appeal that is multifaceted and encyclopaedic, will develop as a 'knowledge factory' that will showcase the "fundamental" 100 years that revolutionized the world: the major social, economic, demographic, cultural and environmental changes that marked the 20th century.

The M9's site will spread over more than 9,200 sqm in the heart of Mestre. The municipality is considered a manifesto of the 20th century, an exemplary case study with a history linked to immigration and emigration, to the Marghera industrial pole and to one of Europe's densest business zones.

After participation in the 12th. International Architecture Exhibition in 2010, where the winning project by the British-Berlin practice Sauerbruch Hutton was announced, the Fondazione di Venezia is back again with "M9/Transforming the city". This new collateral event displays the working plans in the setting of Rio Novo from June 5th. The exhibition begins with a presentation of the urban context and the political motives behind the project, plus a brief digression on the cultural project.