U museu di Bastia Museum of Bastia Una via pedagogica An educational trail Fonte di risorse pedagogiche A source location of educational richness - 1 - Director of publication: Jean-Marie Panazol Academic director of Réseau Canopé Corse: Brigitte Réquier Project Manager: Vincent Andriuzzi Educational contribution: Marie-Elise Ucciani Jean-Marc Pellegri Sylvain Gregori Ariane Jurquet Associu U Pinziglione English translationr: Laura Caporossi © Réseau Canopé, 2019 (établissement p u b l i c à caractère administratif ) Téléport 1 Bât. @ 4 1, avenue du Futuroscope CS 80158 86961 Futuroscope Cedex © Crédits photos: Musée de Bastia; Canopé; Vincent Andriuzzi Tous droits de traduction, de reproduction et d’adap- tation réservés pour tous pays. Le Code de la pro- priété intellectuelle n’autorisant, aux termes des articles L.122-4 et L.122-5, d’une part, que les « copies ou reproductions strictement réservées à l’usage privé du copiste et non destinées à une utilisation collective », et, d’autre part, que les analyses et les courtes citations dans un but d’exemple et d’illustra- tion, « toute représentation ou reproduction intégrale, ou partielle, faite sans le consentement de l’auteur ou de ses ayants droit ou ayants cause, est illicite ». Cette représentation ou reproduction par quelque procédé que ce soit, sans autorisation de l’éditeur ou du Centre français de l’exploitation du droit de copie (20, rue des Grands-Augustins, 75006 Paris) constitueraient donc une contrefaçon sanctionnée. - 2 - Summary PRESENTATION AND ISSUES 5 Introduction 7 The Palace of the Governors: Historical Marks 19 Rencontre avec Sylvain Gregori, Directeur du musée de Bastia 21 Map of the Museum MUSEOGRAPHY ROOMS 24 The mezzanine floor 25 Le ground floor 27 The first floor CHOSEN PIECES 32 Rooms 1 to 5. 33 Rooms 6 to 18 37 Bibliography - Sitography EDUCATIONAL SEQUENCES 41 Questions and Answers 42 Riddle games 43 From Territory to Landscape 44 Study of a piece of art 46 Appendices: Documents for activities - 3 - Presentation and Issues - 4 - Introduction This document is born from a shared belief… The original idea was to give professors the possibility to be autonomous with their classes during a visit of the permanent collections of the museum of Bastia. This is why the museum’s Director wanted a digital file, downloadable for free, where it could be possible to find informations about the building of the Citadel, a global presentation of the museography and some suggestions of educational sequences to allowed the professor to create a visit of the museum directly connected with the school program. The educational team created around this objective shared the idea that the museum of Bastia can and must be a real tool to help the professors. Of course, some professors already come with their students to visit the place, with a guide or not. But the work proposed here must aim them to preprare their visit and to create activities where the students will be the actors of the éducationl sequence. “Qui sait regarder le monde, le fond des ruelles urbaines, les espaces larges des campagnes, comprend que partout les enfants jouent, avec plus ou moins rien, avec eux-mêmes, avec les autres.” François Rémy, Président du Comité français pour l’UNICEF en 1988 The educational bias selected for the activities with the students is the game, oriented on learnings. Using the intellect, the affect and the psychomotor, this will allow the professor to check and reinforced the students’ skills. The examples proposed in this file are only indicative. Thus, the riddle game about the crowns present in the museum could be switch by reasearh for animals, flowers… Other propositions will enrich this document. A translation in Corsican language is in the making, and in other languages as well. The tests realized shown the necessity to prepare the educational sequence first based on the museography in order to be the closest to the selected program. The duration of the sequence during the visit could be divided in three parts: - An initial grouping in the room for activities (on the groundfloor of the museum) to explain to the students what is expected from them. - The creation of the groups in order to explore and act according the given instructions. - The sharing of informations, at the museum or at school. And what if the students, besides the fact they have learned something, became also the museum of Bastia’s ambassadors? May this document be usefull. - 5 - The education team, Marie-Elise Ucciani – College Simon Vinciguerra - Bastia Vincent Andriuzzi – Canopé Académie de Corse – Site de Bastia Jean-Marc Pellegri – Lycée Giocante de Casabianca - Bastia « Tout le monde est un génie. Mais si vous jugez un poisson sur ses capacités à grimper à un arbre, il passera sa vie à croire qu’il est stupide. » Albert Einstein - 6 - The Palace of the Governors: historical marks 1 – About the permanent collections and the building itself. 1.1 – The Ground Floor The part in form of a spindle along the southern wall represents the exterior façade from the first test of implantation of the citadel’s eastern wing; this wing was then enlarged toward East, reoriented North-South and included in the building’s foundations. At the Genoese era, this large room was dedicated to the services of the vicariate. Doctors in Law, assistants and vicars assist the Governor for criminal and civil matters and deliver judgements in these rooms when the Governor is away. The arch, representing St George and the Dragon, reminds everyôe that the construction of the building was the will of the St George Office, a financial institution directed by the elite of Ligurian merchants which had inherit the government of Corsica from Genoa, for many years, especially from 1438 to 1562, when the eastern wing was rebuilt. - 7 - 1.2 – The First Floor The tower in the southeastern angle of the citadel is called by the Genoese « torrione » which means « dungeon ». The thickness of the walls is about 3 meters and the area for the artillery (now closed but still visible from the outside) recalls the importance of the tower for the protection of the citadel. The room of torture was located on the ground floor. An inventory from the 17th century tell us more about the room: « tables and benches for the strappado, easels for the quartering, straitjackets and pants for the prisoners, and stropes in hemp seed to attach them... » This room overlooking the courtyard by a façade was first a balcony opened by three large arcades, similar to those still visible on the ground floor. They are based on cut- sided pillars. In 1627, it is decided to restructure the southern wing. A wall is built to cut the last arch in the western side, the other arches are released to develop new bays and a staircase is constructed in order to connect the southern and the western wings together. We can still see, lost in the masonry, the third pillar. The windows of this room face the opposite façade, completed according to a contemporanean aesthetic in 2008 by project managers Daniel Cléris and Jean-Michel Daubourg. In 1722, a horseshoe staircase is built on the original façade to connect the courtyard with the mezzanine and lead solemnly the guests to the audience hall, as we can see it on the drawings of the project and in the accounts of the realisation, all kept in archives at Genoa. The staircase was destructed then by the French army in 1830 because it interfered with their manoeuvres. All of the eastern side of the façade was devastated by an explosion during the liberation of the Bastia in 1943. In this room, used as a lounge and covered with red damask, the governor welcomed his guests for private audiences seated under a canopy; here, officials from the Republic of Genoa, distinguished guests and clergymen including the Diocesan Bishop follow each others as also the representants of the Corsican communities, starting with Bastia’s podestà and the Senior Officials of its administration. An inventory, dating from the 17th century, refers to numerous chairs, a huge glass lantern and, on the wall, a painting representing Corsica. At a time, a statue of The Virgin and Child, patron of Genoa, was also present in the room. From this living room, the governor can reach his apartment located on the seaside (his wife’s apartment and living room were on the courtyard side) and the official courtroom: la sala maggiore. La sala maggiore, or « public courtroom », is the place where power is exercised. In the 17th century, its doors were kept by German beefeaters. The decor included inscriptions engraved in the marble and sealed to walls, dedicated to the successive governors’ memory, thanking them for their proper administration. Filippo Da Passano’s motto, painted on the wall, and mentioned in Banchero’s annals in the 17th century, is still partially visible at the top of the living room's doors: « [NVMQUAM SERO NVMEN. INSTAR ASPICIENTIS SOLEM] NOCTVQVE EXCVBAN [TIS AQVILAE] » Seated on a canopied throne, the governor hosted important visitors and chaired solemn hearings. By his side, a table covered with crimson velvet where were placed a silver bell and statues of Corsica. The Senior Officials of his administration and the secretaries were standing behind him. Chairs, seats and simple benches were also there, so people could seat according to rank and to a very rigorous etiquette which was controlling priorities. - 9 - The Chapel: In the first times of his residency in Bastia, the governor was in the obligation to attend the service everyday but didn’t have a room specifically dedicated to this use. The first governor who deplored it was Geronimo Assereto in 1595.