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Angela and Massimo Lauro, the nephew of an Italian shipping magnate, will open their private museum, Il Giardini dei Lauri, or Garden of the Laurels, this Sunday; after that, visitors are welcome on Fridays and Saturdays. About five years ago, Massimo, who has been collecting art since the 1990s, began focusing on works by younger artists. He says he hope that focus — on art made in the 1990s or later, mostly by artists under 40 — will draw contemporary-art enthusiasts as well as tourists to the museum. The collection includes works by Urs Fischer, Takashi Murakami, and the late Dash Snow. The museum’s opening this Sunday will include a performance piece that involves a group of artists jumping into a swimming pool filled with mud.

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