2015 Luigi Micheletti Award: European Museums for the Future CONFERENCE AND CEREMONY Creative museums for smart citizens Brescia, Italy 7-8-9 May 2015 REGISTER by completing this form (one per participant) in BLOCK LETTERS and return to Mrs Stefania Itolli, Miss Anna Ghirardi: [email protected], Fondazione Luigi Micheletti, via Cairoli 9 - 25122 Brescia Italy Tel. +39 030 48578 - Fax +39 030 45203. Please also send a copy to Ann Nicholls, EMA Co-ordinator [email protected] First name ……………………………………………… Second name ………………………………...……………………………… Institution ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…… Postal address ……………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………….…… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… E-mail address ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…. Name for conference badge ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………... Accompanying persons: First name ………………………………………………. Second name …………………………………………………………………… First name ……………………………………..……… Second name ………………………………………………………………….. Arrival .…………………………………………………… Departure …………………………………………………………....……….. REGISTRATION FEE: Full conference: € 150 - early registration € 110, if before 1 March. One day: € 70 - early registration € 50, if before 1 March. After you have registered you will receive an invoice from Fondazione Luigi Micheletti for this amount, which will include bank details. Signed: ………………………………………………………. Date: ……………………………….………… 1 fondazionemusil - Via Cairoli 9 - 25122 Brescia, Italia - Tel. +39 030 3750663 - Fax +39 030 2404554 - [email protected] HOTELS We have selected some hotels to give you information on price (per night) and location. Best Western Hotel Master www.hotelmaster.net Bed and breakfast in a single room € 95,00 Bed and breakfast in a double room € 120.00 The hotel is near the heart of Brescia, just a few steps from the Santa Giulia Museum. Hotel Master, Via Luigi Apollonio 72, cap 25128 Tel.030/399037 e.mail: [email protected] Centro Congressi Paolo VI, http://www.centropastoralepaolovi.it/ The price per night includes a parking space: Bed and breakfast in a single room € 60.00 Bed and breakfast in a DUS (double room for single use) room € 70.00 Bed and breakfast in a double room € 75.00 The hotel is in an historic building in the heart of the city near the Santa Giulia Museum and the main city squares. Centro Paolo VI, Via Calini Gezio, 30, 25121 Brescia Tel. +39 030 3773511 - Fax. +39 030 48229 E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] Relais Il Leoncino, http://www.illeoncino.it/ Bed and breakfast in a single room is € 48.00. Bed and breakfast in a double room is € 60.00. The B&B is a 15-minute walk from the centre and from the railway station. Relais Il Leoncino, Viale Italia 19, 25121 Brescia Tel: +39 030 8080235; mobile: +39 349 4569031 Email: [email protected] Participants should send their reservation requirements to the MUSIL Foundation OR make their own reservations directly with the hotel, quoting ‘Micheletti Award’ for this special price. 2 fondazionemusil - Via Cairoli 9 - 25122 Brescia, Italia - Tel. +39 030 3750663 - Fax +39 030 2404554 - [email protected] HOW TO GET TO BRESCIA BY TRAIN The Railway Station (Stazione) is close to the city centre, just 15-20 minutes on foot to Piazza Loggia. If you prefer, you can get bus nr 1 or 2 to reach the city centre. Brescia is on the Trenitalia railway line Milan-Verona-Venice (Frecciabianca and Frecciargento trains). Connections to Lake Iseo and the Camonica Valley are run by Ferrovie Nord Trenitalia tel. 892021 (toll free) http://www.trenitalia.com/ Ferrovie nord tel. 199 151 152 http://www.trenord.it/ AIRPORTS Milan-Bergamo ‘Orio al Serio’, is served by Ryanair, and is 50 km from Brescia: http://www.orioaeroporto.it/. The shuttle bus to Brescia Railway Station is run by the company Autostradale www.autostradale.it/. Verona ‘Valerio Catullo’, 60 km from Brescia: http://www.aeroportoverona.it/, connections to Brescia by train and shuttle bus. Milan-Linate ‘Forlanini’, 100 km from Brescia: www.milanolinate.eu/it connections to Brescia by train and shuttle bus. 3 fondazionemusil - Via Cairoli 9 - 25122 Brescia, Italia - Tel. +39 030 3750663 - Fax +39 030 2404554 - [email protected] THE CITY The city of Brescia, 149 metres above sea level, lies at the foot of the hills below the Pre-Alps, almost at the mouth of the Trompia valley. It is bordered to the north-east by Cidneo Hill, an extension of Mount Maddalena, which rises to the east. There are very pleasant panoramic roads which climb the slopes of the hilly zone of the Ronchi amid varied almost Mediterranean vegetation. Since the beginning of the 20th century, in the presence of vigorous industrial growth, the city has been expanding. The demolition of the city walls, which began towards the end of the previous century and the urbanization of the green areas which separated the old city centre from outlying villages, destroyed the original conformation of the town. The wide ring roads, built where the walls once stood, connect the different districts and ease the traffic in the town, which still has an historic city centre quite different from the newer parts. Today the population of Brescia is about 200,000 - the same number as at the end of the postwar period. It is the second most important city in Lombardy and capital of a province with a population of over a million. With a territory of which more than half is mountainous, it has become one of the most industrialised areas of Italy. Brescia combines the efficiency of a modern town with the attractions of a historic city full of art treasures and offers the visitor the pleasure of strolling through a fascinating urban setting which reveals its past history. A number of judicious improvements have been made, from setting up pedestrian areas and providing plants and benches for gardens and streets, to the work carried out in the quiet residential area surrounding one of the major museum complexes in Italy: Santa Giulia - the City Museum with 12,000 m² of exhibition space. It was opened to the public in 1999 and since 2011 it is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List for the serial site Longobards in Italy. Places of the power (568-774 AD). 4 fondazionemusil - Via Cairoli 9 - 25122 Brescia, Italia - Tel. +39 030 3750663 - Fax +39 030 2404554 - [email protected] EXPO 2015 The 2015 Micheletti Award Meeting and Ceremony will be held in the town of Brescia, seat of the Micheletti Foundation and the sister organization Museum of Industry and Labour Foundation- MUSIL. Brescia is located about 45-60 minutes from Milan and connected by train to Milan’s airports as well as to the low cost flights airport of Bergamo-Orio al Serio, which is less than 30 minutes by bus or train from Brescia. The train line (www.trenitalia.com) is the one from Milan to Venice via Verona and Lake Garda, so there is the chance to plan nice excursions at a distance of no longer than two hours by train. The date of our event in Brescia is 7-8-9 May 2015, the same week that the great Universal Expo 2015 will be open in Milan under the theme ‘Feed the Planet’, a great event not to be missed. 145 countries will be present and among them certainly also YOUR country. To know more about this event you can visit the website http://www.expo2015.org/ Every country has organised its pavilion and programme independently, but in addition to what will happen within the precincts of the EXPO, Milan will be full of cultural international events which will profit from the special visibility offered by the large number of visitors expected (about 20 million people) . Expo in città is the project developed by the Municipality and the Milan Chamber of Commerce that coordinates and promotes the offer of cultural and recreational initiatives, and which will be held inside the metropolitan area during Expo 2015. Expo in città manages a virtual catalogue of the spaces and locations available for these events, offering a unique supporting service for obtaining the necessary permits and licences. Some of the venues are expensive but others are at very affordable prices. The catalogue is available at the following website: http://it.expoincitta.com/. 5 fondazionemusil - Via Cairoli 9 - 25122 Brescia, Italia - Tel. +39 030 3750663 - Fax +39 030 2404554 - [email protected] PROMOTERS THE EUROPEAN MUSEUM ACADEMY EMA is a non-profit Foundation established to reflect museums at the international level, to promote research on museography and museology as a high cultural activity, to provide constructive criticism and promote discussion on new exhibitions and museums, and to diffuse museological knowledge and ideas among members of the profession. It aims to promote the conception and development of new as well as of traditional museums as tools of social change. The Micheletti Award is organised to illustrate best museum practice, in co-operation with the Luigi Micheletti Foundation. Thirty-one countries are currently represented within the EMA organisation. www.europeanmuseumacademy.eu THE MUSIL – MUSEO DELL'INDUSTRIA E DEL LAVORO The MUSIL – Museum of Industry and Labour of Brescia is dedicated to industry as a social fact and main force of Italy's modernization. It includes the following centers: - the Museum of Industry and Labour of Rodengo Saiano, in Franciacorta, a store open to the public with a permanent exhibition dedicated to cinema ad cartoons; - the Museum of the Hydroelectric power, in the middle of the Valle Camonica, in a big building which is a symbol of the modernity of the 20th century; - the Museum of Iron, located in an old forge in Brescia, totally intact and intended to keep a thousand year old tradition alive. www.musil.bs.it THE LUIGI MICHELETTI FOUNDATION (Fondazione Biblioteca Archivio Luigi Micheletti) The Foundation (established in 1991 in Brescia) is a research centre specialising in 20th-century history. Scientific research covers ideologies of the 20th century, wars, the ambivalence of technical progress, industrialization and labour, conspicuous consumption, the origin of environmentalism.