Florence, the Museo Novecento offers guided tours and educational activities... behind closed doors. Here are the new web projects

In the coming days, the Novecento Museum in Florence will also intensify its digital programming with video content, columns and activities that will be published on the web, social channels and the museum’s website(www.museonovecento.it. In addition to its usual activities, the Florentine institute is launching two new projects: #MyAllanKaprow and The Museum with You. #MyAllanKaprow is a series of guided tours and closed-door educational activities related to the exhibition Allan Kaprow. I will always be a painter - of sorts. Museum staff will accompany the public inside the exhibition rooms, engaging them in the artist’s creative process and making them participants in his work, in true Kaprow style.

The Museum with You, on the other hand, is a project in which Sergio Risaliti, the museum’s artistic director, will lead visitors on a virtual tour through the rooms of the museum’s permanent collection to discover recurring themes, subjects and motifs within Alberto Della Ragione’s collection and in the history of 20th-century Italian art. And always Risaliti will be present every day on Controradio where every day from Monday to Friday, at 12 noon, he will tell about a work from the munseo’s collection. The project began with the work Nitrito in velocità by Fortunato Depero, an image, Risaliti declares, “that is also a wish to get out of this terrible moment quickly.”

“Culture does not stop,” says the Novecento Museum’s artistic director. “The museum remains closed but makes itself even more open by telling about its exhibitions, artists and works, activities and future projects, discovering new possibilities for cultural mediation and enhancement. Museo Novecento+social is being born. A remote, virtual museology project that begins now in these days of health emergency and will continue after, even when the epidemic is defeated. We have entered a new era, from now on the virtual experience will be increasingly complementary to the physical experience on site. The exchange between real and virtual is increasingly fluid and indistinct, the experiences living simultaneously on the double track and complementing each other. Today, when museums are inaccessible, we discover the potential of social mediation. Its necessity and functionality. We are close to all those who are struggling and suffering at this time, to those on the front lines in hospitals. Our country is showing civility and responsiveness in a situation of unprecedented emergency that involves everyone everywhere.”

Pictured: the Novecento Museum in Florence

Florence, the Museo Novecento offers guided tours and educational activities... behind closed doors. Here are the new web projects

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