An educational garden is born from a landfill. In San’Arpino, in the province of Caserta, the garden of the future headquarters of the Archaeological Museum of the Atellan countryside has been regenerated by the Horticulture project, selected by Con i Bambini as part of the Fund to combat child educational poverty.
The building that will house the museum, built in the 1930s for the former municipality of Atella (which today includes the 3 municipalities of Sant’Arpino, Orta di Atella and Succivo), still called the “Palazzone”, has been in state for decades of abandonment, despite the archaeological excavations carried out a few meters from the structure in the 1960s.
In 2017, a group of third sector bodies, led by the Terra Felix cooperative – with the resources of Fondazione Con il Sud and Enel Cuore – designed a permanent cultural construction site in the former town hall of Atella which includes a new headquarters for the Archaeological Museum of the Atellan countryside.
In a few months the structure will open to the public. Meanwhile, in the museum garden the Horticulture project has created an educational museum garden, with and for local schools. The museum educational garden enriches and renews children’s enjoyment of cultural spaces. It is a new way to achieve multiple educational goals: learning about the area and its historical-artistic heritage; rebuild a dialogue with previous generations by rediscovering agricultural knowledge; learn science by getting your hands dirty with physics, chemistry and botany.
Service by Rosa Cambara
Thanks to the collaboration of Ivan Esposito, communications manager of the Horticulture project
