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4th / 5th February 2005 Turin, Italy Conference “Reader International Conference Story telling “ in museum contexts. Innovative pedagogies to enhance personnel competence. Introduction 1 Introduction 3 Programme Narrating museums is the stimulating and exciting challenge that awaits us in the 4 Abstracts following years. The traditional museum is a container full of precious artefacts with mixed contents. Our task is not only to protect this cultural wealth, to restore buildings and objects and enhance their value, but also, and I would even go so far as to say Case Histories above all, tell and explain the meaning of the works of art inasmuch as they are an INDEX 15 extraordinary testimony to human activity. Behind a painting, a piece of armour, or a scientific instrument there is a man in flesh 24 Reflections and bones. A man that designed it for a precise objective, a man that made it with a Christopher Gordon “refined technique. Through the description of what lies behind a work of art we REGIONE PIEMONTE narrate contemporary history, saying a lot about ourselves, about our times and about Direzione generale the paths - luckily often already beaten - to take or to avoid. dei Beni Culturali Settore Musei 26 Presentations e Patrimonio culturale Narrating museums means criticising, it means undergoing an existential experience in Museo Nazionale del Cinema contact with the objects that accompanied the lives of our ancestors, it means giving Castello di Racconigi FONDAZIONE voice to what today seems mute. The new audiovisual techniques help us in this FITZCARRALDO difficult gamble, without however forgetting the apparently simple art of telling www.fitzcarraldo.it applied to exposition tours, such as the theatrical techniques used in context of a 28 A suggest of narrative museum. HOLDENART HoldenArt The Regione Piemonte really believes in this project that aims at training and giving www.holdenlab.it information to those who work in this delicate field, with the aim of revitalizing and renewing the image of museums and to progressively transform them into open books ENCATC Organizer’s 29 for all those who want to dive into new intellectual adventures. www.encatc.org presentation The two-days conference dedicated to Storytelling in a museum context - organized by the Regione Piemonte, Fondazione Fitzcarraldo and Scuola Holden, and financed by General info: the European Union in collaboration with the Leonardo programme - will be characte- tel. + 39 011 56.83.365 rized by the participation of numerous important speakers, coming from the most [email protected] important European Museums, and in particular from Eastern Europe. It is an honour for us to have them in a region, the Piedmont, that is- as everybody says - at the forefront on themes that regard the management and valorisation of Cultural Heritage. I wish you all Good Work in a fecund field, that is new and subject to great develop- Editing: Gloria Pasetto, Annalisa Regis The project is co-funded by the European Commission - ment and a source of satisfaction for all. Translation: Elvira Raimondi Directorate General for Education and Culture Graphic: P.S.ONE within the framework of the Leonardo da Vinci Programme Giampiero Leo Regional Councillor for Cultural Affairs and Education Holden h h Art Friday 4th February 2005 1.00 p.m. Registration 1.00-2.30 p.m. Lunch 2.00 p.m. Welcome: Enzo Ghigo, President Regione Piemonte 2.30-4.30 p.m. WORKSHOP Giampiero Leo, Regional Councillor for Cultural a) Creative use of guided visits through story telling Affairs and Education O Italian Chair: Luca Massimo Barbero, HoldenArt, Turin; The Peggy Ugo Bacchella, President Fondazione Fitzcarraldo English Guggenheim collection, Venice, Italy Lea M. Iandiorio, Executive Director, HoldenArt French Rapporteur: Maaria Linko, University of Helsinki, Finland GiannaLia Cogliandro, Executive Director, ENCATC CASE HISTORIES: The topics of how to access culture and the social function of museums and the cultural 2.15-3.45 p.m. Communicating the cultural heritage: theoretical and methodological approaches from past 1) THE SAVOY RESIDENCE IN RACCONIGI- Italy, Mirella heritage are discussed today by verifying the efficacy of the applied methods used to convey and present Macera, Director the meanings and values associated with them to wide-ranging and strongly differentiated 2) THE CHESTER BEATTY LIBRARY - Dublin, Ireland, Chair: Daniela Formento, Director of the Museum and Jennifer Siung, Education Officer audiences. Cultural Heritage Department, Regione Piemonte, Italy Consequently, the ability to renew the methodologies, professional expertise and skills Speakers: O b) Live performance as a mean of interpreting placed at the service of cultural communications in museums and in the institutions that Francesco Antinucci,Cognitive Processes and New Italian cultural heritage English Chair: Daniele Lupo Jallà, Museum Services Department, safeguard the historical heritage is a necessity that is keenly felt in all European countries. Technologies Dept., Psychology Institute CNR, Italy Peter Howard, Bournemouth University, Great Britain City of Turin, ICOM Italia “At a national and Community level this has led to considerable efforts being made to support Rapporteur: Adam Jagiello Rusilowski, Gdansk Universiy, research, training for operators and the experimentation of innovative solutions. DISCUSSION Poland However, by and large, these assets are not shared by all operators in the various countries; 3.45-4.15 p.m. Coffee break CASE HISTORIES: furthermore, the methodological approaches and visions have been and still are to large 4.15-6.00 p.m. The professional skills required for 1) FORTALEZA DEL SOL - Lorca, Spain, extent separate, as a result of traditions and theories that are rooted to varying degrees interpreting cultural heritage and museum collections: Mari Angeles Liròn Sandoval, Director at a national level. some European examples 2) BIBIANA MUSEUM - Bratislava, Slovakian Republic, Chair: Daniela Formento, Director of the Museum and Katarina Minichova Cultural Heritage Department, Regione Piemonte, Italy 3) CAST- Consulenza Animazione Spettacoli Teatrali Turin, Italy, In the research, documentation and training activities that Fondazione Fitzcarraldo offers Speakers: Claudio Montagna, Art Director to those working in the cultural sector (in particular as part of the multiyear agreement Margherita Sani, IBACN, Emilia Romagna Region, Italy c) The design of multimedia interpretation and David Anderson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, O with the Cultural Heritage Department of Regione Piemonte for the training of staff English displays in museum and heritage settings working in museums and cultural heritage), emphasis is necessarily laid on the specific Great Britain Chair: Giuliano Gaia, www.musei-it.net, Italy Nico Halbertsma, Reinwardt Akademie, Amsterdam, Holland skills applied to the processes of interpretation and communication for use by the cultural Rapporteur: Stanislav Miler, ICNM Austria FAMU, Prague, heritage. DISCUSSION Czech Republic The occasion offered by this collaboration with Regione Piemonte and HoldenArt within 7.00 p.m. The National Museum of Cinema, Mole CASE HISTORIES: Antonelliana, Visit performed by CAST 1) JÜDISCHES MUSEUM - Berlin, Germany, the framework the European Leonardo da Vinci Programme offers Italian and European Etta Grotrian, Project Manager operators a valuable area of comparison and learning, focused on the contents, the main th d) Ways and means of enhancing individual lines of research and the forms of a renewal of professional expertise in these fields. Saturday 5 February 2005 O Italian museum and heritage visits 9.30-11.00 a.m. Training professionals as interpreters of English Chair: Alessandro Bollo, Fondazione Fitzcarraldo “Story telling in museum contexts” aims to respond to the idea proposed by all sides for cultural heritage in the museum context: Rapporteur: Viv Golding, Leicester University, Great Britain guides, educators, performers a presentation of the cultural heritage that is once again in touch with the day-to-day CASE HISTORIES: Chair: MargheritaSani,IBACN,Emilia RomagnaRegion, Italy experience of its modern users, that re-establishes the link between the “expert” discipli- 1) TATE MODERN - London,Great Britain, Speakers: nary visions and the dynamic, multifaceted passage of History and the stories for which Gillian Wilson, Assistant Curator, Interpretation Alba Trombini, Historian, Project Manager in Museum and objects and places are the signs and witnesses. Story-telling is one of the methods that Heritage Education 4.30-5.00 p.m. Coffee break can be used to involve the most intimate spheres of our affections and sensitivity, and to Janusz Byszewski, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, 5.00-5.40 p.m. Report back from the workshops foster public participation, drawing on the wealth of values and evocations conjured up Poland by objects and places. 5.40-6.00 p.m. CONCLUSIONS Elisabeth Caillet, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France Christopher Gordon, Independent consultant Great Britain - Other experiences and reflections by experts on the subject of this theme will enable the DISCUSSION President Fitzcarraldo Advisory Board theoretical implications, methodologies, and the technical and operative possibilities 11.00-11.30 a.m. Coffee break 7.15 p.m. Narrative/story telling visit to the Savoy now available, to be incorporated in order to enrich and further diversify the methods 11.30-1.00 a.m. Communicating through technology: