Fairy Tales are true. Italian popular history is told in the Museum of Civilizations of Rome – Rome – Arte.it

Roma – Reconsider the role of the museum as a space-time that is accessible to different target groups, but especially as an inclusive experience, a laboratory for meeting and comparison, transformation and participation.
The exhibition beats like a manifesto of public culture Fairy Tales are true … Italian popular history That from 24 July to 1 March leads to the Muciv Museum of the civilizations of Rome, a story in which Italian popular traditions are interwoven by memory and current events, individuals and communities, culture and nature.
Organized by the Directorate General Museums of the Ministry of Culture, Curated by Massimo Osanna (Director General Museums) and Andrea Viliani (MUCIV Director), Together with a multidisciplinary Team Made Up of Official Museums, of the Museums, of the Museums, of the Museum of Museums, of the Museum of Museums, of the Museum of the Museum of Museums, of the Museum of Museums, of the Museum of Museums: Immaterial Heritage, The Exhibition is created with the collaboration of Cristiana Perrella, While the setup project is of the form of the co-design by Maria Rosaria Lo Muzio.

Inspiration of the symbolic structure of the fairy tale as defined by Italo Calvino in the preface of the anthology Italian fairy tales (1956), The path leads visitors between more than 500 works. There are clothing, drawings, paintings, masks, arrows and shields, drums and canoes, amulets and ex -voices, and still agricultural tools and transport vehicles, toys, photos, prints and videos. The places of origin are the most bad, from Papua -Guinea to Puglia, from Sicily to Piedmont and Sardinia.
To mark the journey, his theme macro -time, from the forest to the sea, from the countryside to the city, from play to magic and travel, to try to understand the world around us and to trace the multiple connections between past and present.

Fairy Tales are true … Italian popular history, Set -Up | Photo: © Alberto Novelli

But it will mainly be a fairy tale, specially written for the exhibition of the narratologist Elena Zagaglia to act as a compass for the public that will take all twelve sections through the adventures of the protagonist Elio.
By what is configured as a Museological experiment in which anthropology, design, pedagogy and protection of the heritage dialogue with the criteria of accessibility and public participation, the project also develops a articulated system of aids for physical, sensory, cognitive, relational and symbolic accessibility with bodies and and without bodies, and and and and bodies and and and and and and and bodies and’s unabilities Coordinated by Miriam.

The audience is therefore invited to communicate, to complete the exhibition with his own fairy tales, stories, objects, memories, after the “living traditions”, which are presented to the museum by writing to mu-civ.traditioniveveni@cultura.gov.it.

“The exhibition Fairy Tales are true … Italian popular historyOrganized by Themuciv – Museum of Civilizations – explains Massimo Osanna, general manager of museums – is an important stage in the path that the Directorate General Museums has been promoting for years: a culture of accessibility understood as responsibility and method, a real founding principle of the museum promotion. For this reason, the exhibition is a reason for special pride. It summarizes an approach and concretizes an approach in which inclusion is the key to designing and telling the places of culture in a new, open and conscious way “.

On the first floor, the entrance and the end of the route evoke the “square of a country” that will be animated for the duration of the exhibition and converted into a space of living events, an area of co-planning for schools, families, assets and associations.

Fairy Tales are true … Italian popular history, Set -Up | Photo: © Alberto Novelli