From the Noi Magazine supplement of the Gazzetta del Sud on 7 November 2024.
Educational routes and workshops to experience the museum in a new way. The National Archaeological Museum of Reggio Calabria, recognized among the most prestigious archaeological museums in Italy and home to one of the most remarkable collections of artifacts from Magna Graecia, offers a wide choice of educational paths aimed at children and schools of all levels. These are guided tours for educational purposes that allow you to explore specific cultural topics of the history and archaeology of Magna Graecia, with particular attention to the needs of people with disabilities. The offer for schools is constantly updated. It’s continuously enriched with new interesting collaborations and new services, according to differentiated target groups, with the support of new technologies and in line with the latest pedagogical and scientific research.
Opportunities include interesting learning experiences such as curricular and extracurricular traineeships. The proposal is aimed at university students or enrolled in Master and Advanced Training Courses in disciplines related to historical-artistic heritage and graduate programs in Letters with artistic history. Conservation of Cultural Heritage. Diagnostics and Restoration. Architecture. Engineering, Academy of Fine Arts, Computer Science, Communication Sciences, Cultural Heritage Economics, Archival Studies, Librarianship.
In order to facilitate professional choices through direct knowledge of the world of work and support schools within the framework of training processes outlined with IPCTO, the Museum welcomes, at its headquarters, young people who want to make an experience in the museum. The activities proposed, which are an integral part of the Educational and Didactic Services, aim to train and enrich the scientific and cultural background of children and encourage collaboration and cooperation with schools. The main objective of the MArRC proposal is to raise awareness among young people about heritage issues and what constitutes cultural identity, living the museum in an unprecedented way: no longer as passing visitors or temporary users distracted and bored, but as real “visitAttori” that can act behind the scenes, supporting on stage those who work daily to enhance the museum. In light of the characteristics of the museum institution and the specificity of the different projects, it is planned an active involvement of young people in various activities that will be co-designed and directed in synergy by the school tutor and the museum tutor.
Special emphasis is placed on educational activities in laboratories, whose purpose is to deepen the history and archaeology of Magna Graecia and promote links with the territory and heritage, always paying special attention to the needs of the public with disabilities. The proposals include a series of educational activities designed for children aged 6 to 11, including: “Safari at MarRC”, an adventure, in the form of a guided tour, which leads to the discovery of the exhibits kept in the museum’s windows in an engaging way, through the discovery of the animal world. Or again. “Words and images from the myth”, a workshop designed to share the pleasure of reading and to deepen the history of the deities through the story of the myth. Activities are proposed by the office of Educational and Didactic Services on pre-established dates and on the occasion of days dedicated to historical heritage-archaeological.
Sensitive to the theme of museum accessibility and motivated to make social innovation its own distinctive feature, the Museum has started a collaboration with MARE Laboratorio di innovazione sociale (MARE Labo), a cooperative that is responsible for developing strategies able to combine market needs and ethical, political and environmental issues, proposing activities and workshops that have as common denominators development, sustainability and equality. The activities include “Touch art”, a tactile workshop aimed at people with visual disabilities, designed to reveal the secrets of some works through the use of special tactile tables that reproduce eight pieces from the collection kept inside MarRC. “Il museo per tutti e per tutte” is instead a workshop open to all and that can be adapted and addressed in particular to a segment of users with intellectual disabilities. It invite adults and children to know and investigate through new senses and new approaches, and to guide within the museum spaces in this case will be a treasure hunt to discover some of the most iconic and beautiful works of the Museum.
The proposals conceived and offered are multiple and transversal, declined according to the needs of different public proposals that make the Museum an open and inclusive space, which invites, welcomes, stimulates and actively involves, guiding the different users to develop a renewed sensitivity and interest towards the heritage and the extraordinary collections that are preserved within it.