Minerva Foundation is a not for profit, charitable foundation, dedicated to promoting original and challenging approaches to the study of the visual brain and in particular to the study of the neural mechanisms underlying higher visual functions. We aim to achieve this in two ways: by offering scholars the opportunity to pursue original ideas away from their work-place, in the apartments that we make available at Minerva House and by organizing annual meetings in neuroesthetics, in association with the Institute of Neuroesthetics, London.