Lucca, museotherapy among the Surrealists: the museum becomes a place of psychophysical well-being

Museotherapy arrives in Lucca: from mindfulness exercises among the works of the Surrealists to interdisciplinary guided tours led by teenage boys for other teenagers, museotherapy workshops and meetings to learn how to “deprogram” and reconnect with one’s deepest nature: the Lu.C.C.A. - Lucca Center of Contemporary Art has intensified its activities in June as a space dedicated not only to art, but to psychophysical well-being. The last two events will be held on June 17 and 18, and for the occasion it will be possible to visit the exhibition Reality Unveiled. Surrealism and the Metaphysics of Dream, extended until June 20, and bringing together works by Magritte, Dalí, Miró, Masson, Man Ray, Bellmer, Matta and De Chirico.

The meetings are part of Lucca Learning City and are organized by the Lu.C.C.A. ArTS Hub and Omina, in collaboration with Alap - Associazione Lucchese Arte e Psicologia, Associazione Archimede, and Baby Doctor. A partner in the initiative is “The Lands of Giacomo Puccini.”

"Cultural institutions have a social responsibility, and the museum is a place to find serenity, health and inner well-being: culture cures," said Maurizio Vanni, director of the Lu.C.C.A. “Museotherapy,” Vanni added, “corresponds to a great opportunity for our museums by confirming the benefits that a personalized perceptual path, and proposed in the form of a workshop, can bring to fragile, vulnerable or differently abled people. It is a form of therapy that uses the response to the perceptual process related to the enjoyment of visual artworks to improve physical, mental and emotional well-being. The creative, evocative and expressive process related to a perceptual experience inside a museum, never an alternative to pharmacological pathways and treatments, can help the most fragile people to resolve many issues where it is necessary to intervene on their states of mind, reduce stress and anxiety states and improve self-esteem.”

Thursday, June 17, 2021 at 6 p.m. is the Museum Quantum Perception meeting, led by Ines Della Valle, aimed at learning how to “deprogram” and reconnect with one’s roots and identity. To regain inner well-being and ideally place oneself on a subjective perceptual path in the world of the surrealists, methods from Eastern and Western tribal cultures or borrowed from sciences such as quantum physics, traditions such as hermetic philosophy, tantric principles, shamanism and physical movement will be used.

Instead, on Friday, June 18, 2021, at 6:30 p.m., there will be an interdisciplinary “Teen4Teens” guided tour of the exhibition Reality Revealed, running at Lu.C.C.A. through June 20, led by Iacopo Muchetti. Who better than a teenager to tell other teens about the Surrealists’ exhibition? The event is part of the “Museum Narrators” training project aimed at teenagers, which was held last year and included the possibility of creating interdisciplinary tours for their peers.

“In the perspective of the new museology,” Vanni concludes, “culture must enter the everyday life of all people, and museums can become points of reference to find identity, health, inner well-being and the experiential and emotional pleasure of experiencing the arts.”

The meetings are free admission, by reservation only, subject to availability. For reservations call 0583/492180 or write to info@luccamuseum.com

Image: Joan Miró, Miró sculpteur - the Italy

Lucca, museotherapy among the Surrealists: the museum becomes a place of psychophysical well-being

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