RITUALS is an interdisciplinary project, being focused first on Cultural heritage, including Tangible culture - Museums and Intangible culture, but exploiting also Performing arts, with specific attention to Theatre. More in detail, RITUALS relates to the fields selected since: - it is a project aiming at elaborating and testing audience development and public involvement plans in archaeological open air museums, organisations that, by their nature, promote both tangible and intangible culture. In fact, they propose to the visitors true-to-scale architectural reconstructions primarily based on archaeological sources, but intend also to provide an interpretation of how people lived and acted in the past and to communicate to the visitors information and data regarding intangible aspects of the ancient civilisations such as religion, social organization, economy and politics; - concerning Intangible culture, more specifically, in RITUALS archaeological open air museums will go beyond the presentation and demonstration of those material actions, which belong to their traditional offer, like the demonstration of ancient crafts and skills. They want to take on a new challenge: to offer to their visitors the knowledge of specific ritual contexts through the reconstruction of material and immaterial actions, supported by specific scientific evidences; - theatre and performing arts in museums represent, together with ICT tools, effective instruments incouraging the public involvement on the complexity of actions, symbols and atmospheres of rituality. They also encourage an active role of the visitors that can be engaged in laboratories and performances, participating in the production of cultural events. Dialogue between theatre and museums create a virtuous mutual short circuit, in which theatre helps museums to stimulate the emotional factor of knowledge and museums push theatre to find new forms that strengthen its function of communication and educational tool.

RITUALS. New audience development strategies in archaeological open air museums

CERQUETTI, MARA;DRAGONI, PATRIZIA;FELICIATI, Pierluigi;MONTELLA, Massimo;STORTONI, EMANUELA
2015-01-01

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RITUALS is an interdisciplinary project, being focused first on Cultural heritage, including Tangible culture - Museums and Intangible culture, but exploiting also Performing arts, with specific attention to Theatre. More in detail, RITUALS relates to the fields selected since: - it is a project aiming at elaborating and testing audience development and public involvement plans in archaeological open air museums, organisations that, by their nature, promote both tangible and intangible culture. In fact, they propose to the visitors true-to-scale architectural reconstructions primarily based on archaeological sources, but intend also to provide an interpretation of how people lived and acted in the past and to communicate to the visitors information and data regarding intangible aspects of the ancient civilisations such as religion, social organization, economy and politics; - concerning Intangible culture, more specifically, in RITUALS archaeological open air museums will go beyond the presentation and demonstration of those material actions, which belong to their traditional offer, like the demonstration of ancient crafts and skills. They want to take on a new challenge: to offer to their visitors the knowledge of specific ritual contexts through the reconstruction of material and immaterial actions, supported by specific scientific evidences; - theatre and performing arts in museums represent, together with ICT tools, effective instruments incouraging the public involvement on the complexity of actions, symbols and atmospheres of rituality. They also encourage an active role of the visitors that can be engaged in laboratories and performances, participating in the production of cultural events. Dialogue between theatre and museums create a virtuous mutual short circuit, in which theatre helps museums to stimulate the emotional factor of knowledge and museums push theatre to find new forms that strengthen its function of communication and educational tool.
2015
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