«The objective of our association and of this initiative is to create a network to promote knowledge, the economic and tourist attractiveness of the Houses of Illustrious Characters and the cultural landscapes of which they are part». As Adriano Rigoli, president of the National Association of Case della Memoria, comments on the birth of a European network of illustrious people, presented yesterday in the Region by the association he represents.
The event opened with institutional greetings from Alessia Bettini deputy mayor and councilor for culture of the Municipality of Florence, Marida Brogialdi mayor of Caprese Michelangelo, Francesco Tapinassi director of Toscana Promozione. They explained the meaning of the initiative Adriano Rigoli And Marco Capacciolirespectively president and vice-president of the national Association of Case della Memoria.
«The birth of the European Network of Houses of Illustrious People represents an important step for the valorisation and promotion of these unique places of culture – he said the deputy mayor and councilor for culture of Florence, Alessia Bettini -. A work carried out with great commitment and passion by the national association Case della memoria to connect realities from all over Europe and to support an increasingly strategic synergy for all cultural subjects. A way to increase visibility and enhance this artistic and cultural heritage by strengthening a quality offer, capable of attracting an attentive and aware public”.
«We thank all the participants in this initiative – he continues Rigoli – for their collaboration, for having welcomed with pleasure and enthusiasm this new adventure to be built together with a view to enhancing the places of culture throughout Europe”.
«The meeting resumes the path of collaboration and valorization of the House Museums of Europe begun in 2015 and perfected in recent years – comments Marco Capaccioli vice-president of the National Association of Memory Houses –. A collaborative path that will allow us to stimulate the competitiveness and positioning of the system, offering visitors and consumers the opportunity to experience, in a coordinated and comprehensive way, the offer of integrated tourist routes for what I define as “travelers of the third millennium”. In this way the House Museums of the System will have the opportunity to discuss various case studies with their Italian and European colleagues, an opportunity for mutual knowledge and self-training. All this by creating joint events, ad hoc tourist itineraries through tour operators, creating with our IT partners the first European telematic portal of all house museums”.
This was followed by a visit to Casa Buonarroti in Florence with the director Alessandro Cecchi and a tasting of typical local products. In the afternoon the international delegation of the Houses of Illustrious Characters will move to the Casa Museo Ivan Bruschi in Arezzo (4.30 pm) for a guided tour and, in the evening, to Caprese Michelangelo, for a welcome dinner and the presentation of the volume on Michelangelo, ” Genius and orderliness in the Renaissance”.
SSaturday 25 May and Sunday 26 Maya was organised international conference entitled “A European network of illustrious people”.
On Saturday 25 May (9 am) the Birthplace of Michelangelo Buonarroti will host the international meeting “L’Europe dei Grandi”, coordinated by the national Association of Houses of Memory.
After institutional greetings from Alessandro Polcri president of the province of Arezzo, Marida Brogialdi mayor of Caprese Michelangelo, Francesco Tapinassi director of Toscana Promozione, Marida Brogialdi mayor of Caprese), interventions are scheduled Michele Lanzinger president of ICOM Italia (9.30 am) ed Elisa Bruttini ICOM Tuscany coordinator. Following (10 am) the introductory report “If all the houses in the world” illustrated by Claudio Rosati of Simbdea, the Italian Society for museography and demo-ethno-anthropological heritage, and of the Scientific Committee of the National Association of Memory Houses.
At 10.20 there will be a presentation of the digital tools to support the visit for the European network of Houses of Illustrious People, organized by Centrica – Planet. This will be followed (11.20 am) by the intervention of the regional coordinators of the National Memory Case Association and the managers of the European network. At 11.50 it will be the turn of Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio, project manager of Charter EU Erasmus+, Cultural Management Programme, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain European Cultural Heritage Skills Alliance.
They will take part from 12pm Alla Bayramova director of the State Museum of Musical Culture of Azerbaijan, Baku, Azerbaijan; Mikhail Bryzgalov general director of the Russian National Museum of Music, Moscow, Russian Federation; Jurn Buisman director of the Geelvinck Early Piano Museum/Amsterdam Museum Geelvinck, The Netherlands.
After the visit to Michelangelo’s birthplace (1.30 pm), from 3 pm there will be speeches by the leaders of the European network. May 25th will end with the signing of the protocol and the meeting of the ICLCM Board (7.30 pm). Here are the managers of the European network who will intervene: Vesna Delic Gozzeformer director of the Literary Museum of Renaissance playwriter Marin Držic and former director of Museum of Modern Art in Dubrovnik; John Exalto assistant professor in Theory and History of Education (University of Groningen), Chairman of the Board of the Comenius Museum and Mausoleum (Naarden, the Netherlands); Jan Amos Comenius, Carlos Fortea Gil member of institutional relations of Ace Asociación Colegial de Escritores de España (Madrid); Victoria Galván González director of the Casa Museo Pérez Galdós (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), president of the Acamfe Asociación de Casas-Museos y Fundaciones de Escritores (Iberian Peninsula); Marlene Oliveira director of Fundação Cupertino de Miranda, Vila Nova de Famalicão, (Regiao Norte), vice-president and representative of Portuguese Houses of Acamfe Asociación de Casas-Museos y Fundaciones de Escritores (Iberian Peninsula); Uxio Novosecretary of the Fundación Uxío Novoneyra, Unesco Geopark and Biosphere Reserve of Courel Mountains, Lugo, Galicia, Spain Treasurer of Acamfe Asociación de Casas-Museos y Fundaciones de Escritores and representative in Nemo and Icom Spain (Iberian Peninsula) and representative of the Galician Houses Religa Rede de Espazos Literarios de Galicia; Carmen Jimenez Sanz director of the Museum Cerralbo (Madrid); Cecilia Casas Desantes of the Cerralbo Museum in Madrid; Lothar Jordan ChairSub-Committee on Education and Research (SCEAR) Unesco Memory of the World Programme, Vice-President of the International Committee for Literary and Composers’ Museums (Icom-Iclcm), Frankfurt an der Oder (Germany); Yuriy KomlevOrenburg
Regional Museum of Fine Arts, Orenburg, Russian Federation, secretary of the International Committee for Literary and Composers’ Museums (Icom-Iclcm); Antra Medne Riga City State Municipality Association of Cultural Institutions, director of Alexander Chak Museum, Riga, Latvia, member of the board of the International Committee for Literary and Composers’ Museums (Icom-Iclcm); Mireia Munmany Muntal Director of Projectes d’Espais Escrits, Barcelona, (Catalonia); Anna Sido Petöfi Literary Museum (Budapest), member of the board of International Committee for Literary and Composers’ Museums (Icom-Iclcm), Göran Söderström Stockholm Sweden, Professor of Art history and vice-president of Strindberg Society Literary, artist and composer of the Museums in Sweden; Maira Valtere Janis Akuraters’ Museum in Riga, Latvia; Sophie Vannieuwenhuyze vice president of Fédération des maisons d’écrivain & des patrimoines littéraires (Bourges); Paraskevi Vasilieadi deputy curator director of Kantatzakis Museum, Heraklion (Crete), Giuseppe Albano director of Freud Museum (London); Galina Alexeeva academic director of The Leo Tolstoy National Museum-Estate at Yasnaya Polyana, Russian Federation The Leo Tolstoy National Museum-Estate as the Interdisciplinary Institution.
Sunday 26 May includes, starting from 9.30, visits to the village of Anghiari and to the Museum of the Madonna del Parto in Monterchi by Piero della Francesca.
