Who is Sandro Debono
Pensatore del museo e stratega culturale. Insegna museologia all'Università di Malta, è membro del comitato scientifico dell’Anchorage Museum (Alaska) oltre che membro della European Museum Academy. Curatore di svariate mostre internazionali, autore di svariati libri. Scrive spesso sui futuri del museo ed ha il suo blog: The Humanist Museum. Recentemente è stato riconosciuto dalla Presidenza della Repubblica Italiana cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia e dal Ministero della Cultura Francese Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres per il suo contributo nel campo della cultura.
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A participatory museum site. The case of the MAR - Regional Archaeological Museum of Aosta.
Imagine a museum that is easy to understand, engaging for you and yours, requiring no specialized skills to interact with objects and content. Imagine a museum where you would feel comfortable, where you could find answers to varied questions that ar...Read more...
Podcasts, audio guides, radio, music: what audio tools for the museum
The pandemic of COVID-19 now seems to be a thing of the past, but if there is one thing museums can safely take as a moral of those unprecedented times, it is the fact that digital matters. Indeed, we might add that the potential that digital holds i...Read more...
What is a museum? Thoughts on the new definition
Last week ICOM announced a new definition of museum to replace the one in place since 2007. The process was no stranger to controversy, not to mention resignation, with a definition with a dual purpose proposed in 2019 and sent backto the discussion ...Read more...
Phygital: what does it mean? And what is a phygital museum?
Let's get straight to the point. Linguistically, the word phygital is a combination of the words physical ("physical") and digital ("digital") to indicate the ever-increasing experiential intersection and fusion between these two worlds. In...Read more...
Artworks in the age of virtual between digital twins and NFT Phygital
Not surprisingly, the editorial in the latest issue of The Burlington Magazine (March 2022) is devoted to art in the age of digital reproduction. Taking a cue from Walter Benjamin's 1936 essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reprodu...Read more...
Museums and the hype around NFTs
I have been thinking about this article for some time as I observed the ways and means by which museums have jumped on the hype bandwagon for NFTs. Some of this has probably been influenced by circumstances, particularly the hard-hit revenue ...Read more...
Will museums have enough money to stay open?
This article has been in the works for some time since my first piece on this very fascinating topic in September 2020. For that article, I had chosen one question as the title. I am again choosing one question as the title, however, this t...Read more...
Closed with open doors. Reflections on the immediate future of museums
A few months ago, as museums around the world ajar their doors waiting for the public to visit again, this phrase from Maira Kalman resonated even louder: "a museum visit is a search for beauty, truth and meaning in our lives. Go to the museum ...Read more...
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The Fortress of Ravaldino: Caterina Sforza's fortress symbol of Forli.
Redazione - 17/12/2024 -
When Donatello and Masaccio agreed on the Renaissance revolution in Pisa.
Federico Giannini, Ilaria Baratta - 17/12/2024 -
Pietro da Cortona's The Triumph of Divine Providence, a fundamental text of 17th-century art
Claudia Farini - 14/12/2024 -
Giuseppe Gorni, the artist who celebrated the Mantuan countryside, and his museum in Quistello
Redazione - 13/12/2024 -
A new museum in Ravenna dedicated to Lord Byron and the Risorgimento
Redazione - 10/12/2024 -
Discovering Marco Palmezzano and Luca Longhi, masters of the Renaissance in Romagna
Redazione - 09/12/2024 -
History of the Florentine commesso, an ancient technique of high craftsmanship
Jacopo Suggi - 06/12/2024 -
The labyrinth of Lucca Cathedral: a sacred symbol linked to Greek myth
Redazione - 05/12/2024 -
Journey to Vienna among the places of Johann Strauss son, who popularized the waltz
Redazione - 01/12/2024 -
Journey to discover the Malatesta Castles in the heart of Romagna
Redazione - 28/11/2024 -
The Snow Labyrinth of Chamois, a work of Land Art in the most unspoiled Aosta Valley
Redazione - 26/11/2024 -
Masterpieces of the Flemish world at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Jacopo Suggi - 19/11/2024
Most read of the month
- Tourism in Tuscany: there is a whole part of the region that is little known and needs to be told
By Francesco Tapinassi - published on 28/11/2024 alle 08:10:01 - 0 Commenti - But could Italy ask France to return the works requisitioned by Napoleon?
By Federico Giannini, Ilaria Baratta - published on 03/12/2024 alle 14:10:51 - 0 Commenti - Pietro da Cortona's The Triumph of Divine Providence, a fundamental text of 17th-century art
By Claudia Farini - published on 14/12/2024 alle 17:00:06 - 0 Commenti - Return to futurism: here's what the National Gallery of Rome exhibition looks like
By Federico Giannini - published on 04/12/2024 alle 22:33:24 - 0 Commenti - The extraordinary relevance of Giorgio Vasari, modern artist. What the Arezzo exhibition looks like
By Federico Giannini - published on 15/12/2024 alle 15:20:03 - 0 Commenti - Vincenzo Giustiniani, a collector of Macchiaioli.
By Federico Giannini, Ilaria Baratta - published on 06/12/2024 alle 20:20:57 - 0 Commenti - One hundred years since the Surrealist Manifesto. What the Surréalisme exhibition at the Centre Pompidou looks like.
By Stella Cattaneo - published on 18/11/2024 alle 19:37:39 - 0 Commenti - Has the Carrara Academy in Bergamo become unmanageable?
By Leonardo Bison - published on 23/11/2024 alle 12:36:03 - 0 Commenti - About Picasso the foreigner
By Redazione - published on 23/11/2024 alle 12:34:16 - 0 Commenti - How Etruscan art influenced twentieth-century art
By Redazione - published on 10/12/2024 alle 19:31:27 - 0 Commenti
