A copy of Michelangelo's David made with a 3D printer will be exhibited in a museum located in the city of Dubai in October next year..

The copy will be made by the Galleria dell’Accademia of the city of Florence (where is the original part) and will be the highest representative of the Italian Pavilion at the World's Fair 2021 based in the United Arab Emirates.

Scientists, technical, curators, artisans and university professors and students will participate in the initiative in the coming months. The process will begin with the digital acquisition of the statue's data and will be completed with its ultra-high-tech reproduction using state-of-the-art technology..

The project foresees in the next twelve months the realization of the "making of" of the reproduction itself in order to offer visitors and as a legacy of the Expo 2020 Dubai - which was scheduled for this year but due to the pandemic was postponed until October next year- the representation of the multidisciplinary capacities involved in this complex operation.

The reproduction task, under the scientific supervision of the University of Florence, It ranges from the digital acquisition of the statue's data to the milling of the totally natural plastic material that will shape it and which will involve scientists in the coming months., technical, curators, craftsmen, university teachers and students.

Michelangelo's masterpiece is the statue with the most copies in the world. In the city of Florence there are two replicas, in Europe three (in Cologne, Copenhagen and Marseille), in America another four (Montevideo, Saint Paul, Las Vegas and South Dakota), two in Asia (South Korea and India) and a seven meter Carrara marble found in Queensland, in Australia.

The particularity of the copy to be presented in Dubai is the first that the Accademia Gallery has authorized since it won a long legal battle against unauthorized reproductions of the David..