Every week the Civic Museums of Bologna offer a rich calendar of events, to reveal their collections and tell about new and curious aspects and episodes of the history of the city, also through different points of view and unusual combinations between the different collections.
Conferences, workshops, concerts, guided tours, visits in language are the main “tools” of this story, which unfolds along millennia of history, from the first stone tools of men who lived 800,000 years ago to the products of the current industrial district, from painting to the various forms of modern and contemporary art, from music to the great political and civil epics.
Here are the events scheduled from Friday 19 to Friday 26 April.
Museums open with public holidays also during Easter, Easter Monday and Liberation Day. Follow the detail.
IN EVIDENCE
Friday 19 April
6pm: Villa delle Rose – via Zaragoza 228/230
“Catherine Biocca . YOU’RE HIRED” Inauguration of the exhibition, curated by Giulia Pezzoli.
After Dina Danish & Jean- Baptiste Maitre , Catherine Biocca is the last artist invited to conceive and create a new project for the exhibition venue of Villa delle Rose, as part of the 2018/2019 edition of the ROSE Residences Program promoted by MAMbo .
FOR CHILDREN
Sunday 21st April
4.00 pm: Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
As part of the cycle Al museo per gioco
“A day as an ancient Egyptians” Workshop for children from 8 to 11 years old, by the archaeologists of the Aster company.
Visit and theater workshop where you can immerse yourself in the life that took place along the Nile.
Tuesday 23 April
8.30-12.30 / 14-18: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
“I’m at MAMbo for the holidays”
Art Days at the Museum for children from 5 to 11 years, to explore the imagery of contemporary illustrators and artists traveling between earth and sky, truth and fantasy, reality and surreality.
– morning: ” Plic , plic , splash!”
THE OTHER APPOINTMENTS
Friday 19 April
10 am-2pm: Medieval Museum – Via Manzoni 4
“Cultural mediation at the Medieval Civic Museum”
During the Easter holidays, the Medieval Civic Museum offers a free cultural mediation service: a museum educator will be present in the exhibition rooms, available to the public. TO edited by Angela Lezzi, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full / € 3.00 reduced)
5pm: Davia Bargellini Museum – Strada Maggiore 44 / La QUADRERIA. Palazzo Rossi Poggi Marsili – via Marsala 7
For the exhibition A stroll around the museums: routes between the civic heritage and the ancient Pie Works
“Guided tour of the Davia Bargellini Museum and La QUADRERIA. Palazzo Rossi Poggi Marsili”
Guided tour with Ilaria Negretti, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
For the occasion the museum will make an extraordinary opening from 16 to 18.
5pm: Museo della Musica – Strada Maggiore 34
As part of the Wunderkammer review. The museum of wonders
“Notes of love. Music and courtship in the nineteenth century”
For the cycle “The treasures of music. Meetings, studies and new releases “, meeting with Ornella Chillè and Ilaria Chia, in collaboration with the Civic Museum of the Risorgimento.
In the painting “Note d’amore” by the Modenese Giovanni Muzzioli , music and feeling are represented in a single solution, the amiable, beautiful and elegant women of the nineteenth century are told: now committed to playing according to the educational rules imposed by the time, now woo in the richest and most sumptuous living rooms.
Saturday 20 April
10.30 am: Municipal Art Collections, Palazzo d’Accursio – Piazza Maggiore 6
“The rediscovered Gallery: the restoration of the vault of the Vidonian room ” Guided tour with Ilaria Negretti, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full / € 3.00 reduced)
12.30-16.30: Davia Museum Bargellini – Strada Maggiore 44
“Cultural mediation at the Davia Bargellini Museum “
On Easter holidays, the Davia Bargellini Museum offers a free cultural mediation service: a museum educator will be present in the exhibition rooms, available to the public. TO care of Ilaria Negretti, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
Free entry
5pm: Villa delle Rose – via Zaragoza 228/230
“Catherine Biocca . YOU’RE HIRED” guided tour of the exhibition by the MAMbo Educational Department .
Reservations required at 051 6496627 (Wednesday from 10 to 17 and Thursday from 13 to 17) or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it .
Min 6 – max 30 participants.
Admission: € 4.00
Monday 22 April
11.30 am – 3.30 pm: Medieval Museum – Via Manzoni 4
“Cultural mediation at the Medieval Civic Museum”
During the Easter holidays, the Medieval Civic Museum offers a free cultural mediation service: a museum educator will be present in the exhibition rooms, available to the public.
4.00 pm: Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
“Traveling with Herodotus to the Archaeological Museum” Guided tour by the archaeologists of the Aster company.
According to Ryszard Kapuściński Herodotus was the first reporter in history: he traveled, collected data and first-hand experiences, compared them and exposed them. But how did you move in antiquity? By what means? And how was the journey dealt with? On the day traditionally dedicated to day trips, at the Archaeological Museum you will find means of transport, directions, petrol stations and all the essential equipment for traveling, land or otherworldly.
Admission: € 4.00 for the guided tour + museum ticket (€ 3.00). For holders of the Metropolitan Museum Card Bologna € 3.00 for the guided tour (free museum entrance)
4.00 pm: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
“Guided tour of the permanent MAMbo collection “
A guided tour of the permanent collection to get closer to the history of Italian art, from the mid-fifties to the present, through the activity of the former Modern Art Gallery of Bologna and the subsequent acquisitions of MAMbo .
Reservations required at 051 6496627 (Wednesday from 10 to 17 and Thursday from 13 to 17) or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it .
Admission: € 4.00 + museum ticket (€ 6.00 full / € 4.00 reduced). For holders of the Metropolitan Museum Card Bologna € 3.00 for the guided tour (free museum entrance)
Wednesday, April 24th
5pm: Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
“The faces of the Buddha from the lost Indian Museum of Bologna” Guided tour of the exhibition with the curator Luca Villa.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full / € 3.00 reduced)
Thursday 25 April
10.30 am: Certosa Cemetery – Via della Certosa 18
“From the Risorgimento to the Liberation: the Charterhouse between the two World Wars” guided tour organized by Didasco Association
A path of memory between the graves of the fallen and the great collective monuments to retrace the fundamental stages of our history: from the Risorgimento struggles to the liberation of the city at the end of the Second World War.
Reservations required on 348 1431230 (afternoon-evening).
Meeting at the main entrance of the Certosa (Church courtyard).
Admission: € 10.00 (for each paying admission two euros will be donated to enhance the Certosa)
3.30 pm and 5.00 pm: Medieval Museum – Via Manzoni 4
“Unusual visit to the Medieval Museum” With Paolo Maria Veronica, Roberto Malandrino and the complicity of Eugenio Maria Bortolini .
Malandrino & Veronica’s multi-faceted capacity for transformism arrives in the halls of the Medieval Civic Museum, whose precious collections lend themselves to enormous enormous potential.
Admission: € 13.00 / € 5.00 up to 12 years / € 6.50 for Bologna Metropolitan Museum Card holders (recommended for all ages)
4.00 pm: Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
“Alexander the Great to conquer the Nile. Egypt and the others between tradition and renewal” Guided visit by the archaeologists of the Aster society.
Alessandro Magno tells, inspired by the finds preserved by the museum, his story of the conquest of Egypt, often referred to the liberation of the country from the Persians and to the reconstitution of lost traditions.
Admission: € 4.00 for the guided tour + museum ticket (€ 3.00). For holders of the Metropolitan Museum Card Bologna € 3.00 for the guided tour (free museum entrance)
Friday 26 April
6.30pm: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
As part of the Wunderkammer review. The museum of wonders
“Arcangelo Corelli Bolognese. Tre sonatas of the ‘600 Emilian”
For the cycle “Unusual. The music you don’t expect”, concert by Musica Antiqua Latina: Luca Giardini and Gabriele Politi, baroque violin; Giordano Antonelli, baroque cello; Francesco Tomasi, theorbo and baroque guitar.
Tickets can be booked on www.museibologna.it/musica
Admission: € 10.00
EXHIBITIONS
Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
“Ex Africa. Stories and identity of a universal art” , until 8 September 2019
Hieratic faces and bodies that immediately remind us of the sculptures of Modigliani and Brancusi , the paintings of Nolde and Picasso. But also faces admirably turned into bronze, of fidian perfection like only the cherubs and the Christ in Raphael’s bands. Objects of power and worship that refer to metaphysics, ancient rituals, human and supernatural forces. But also miniature figures to weigh the gold dust, chiseled like watches of the German seventeenth century. And again, salons in ivory, olives and spoons made in Africa in ancient times on a European commission, for what were once called applied arts.
Museum of Music – Strada Maggiore 34
“The journey to Reims. Memories of a show” , until May 5, 2019
After a first stage set up at the Ridotto of the Municipal Theater of Ferrara from 18 January to 26 March 2019, the Bologna Music Museum is pleased to host the exhibition project “The journey to Reims. Memories of a performance” in the temporary exhibition hall by Giuseppina Benassati and Roberta Cristofori , promoted by the Institute for artistic, cultural and natural heritage of the Emilia-Romagna Region in collaboration with the Fondazione Teatro Comunale of Ferrara, the Ferrara Musica e Istituzione Bologna Musei Association | International museum and music library.
Industrial Heritage Museum – via della Beverara 123
“Professional training, women’s work and industry in Bologna: 1946-1970”, until 2 June 2019
The exhibition, conceived and produced by the Museum of Industrial Heritage and the Women Union in Italy (Bologna) in collaboration with the Fondazione del Monte di Bologna and Ravenna and the International Labor Organization (ILO) – Office for Italy and San Marino, constitutes the first appointment of a three-year project promoted by the Museum of Industrial Heritage and the Women’s Union in Italy dedicated to the theme “Work, training and female technical culture”.
Davia Bargellini Museum – Strada Maggiore 44
“Bologna upside – Daisy Zuo “, until May 5th 2019
The illustrator Zouchao Zuo – Daisy Zuo – has come from China to discover Bologna. Chosen from among the over 130 artists who participated in the Bologna City of Music Unesco Competition and College of China in 2018, he observed the city in its daily flow, and drew known or unknown places, views, iconic views. The result is a black and white artist album, “Bologna up head”, which aims to tell Bologna to the many Chinese tourists who each year decide to visit the city.
“William Hogarth . A portrait visiting the Museum of Fine Arts of Ghent ” , until 28 April 2019
A famous protagonist of European painting of the eighteenth century arrives for the first time in Bologna: it is the English painter and engraver William Hogarth , of whom the Museo Davia Bargellini exhibits the painting “Portrait of a Lady in a white dress and pearl earrings”, coming fromGhent Fine Arts Museum , Belgium.
MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
“No, Oreste, No! Diaries from an impossible archive”, until May 5, 2019
In the exhibition space of the Project Room the MAMbo presents “No, Oreste, No! Diaries from an impossible archive”, an exhibition project curated by Serena Carbone focused on the artistic-relational experience of Progetto Oreste, born in 1997 and ended in 2001, with particular attention to Bolognese events.
“Mika Rottenberg “, until May 19, 2019
The Mambo is pleased to present the first solo show in an Italian institution Mika Rottenberg, by Lorenzo Balbi.
The Argentinian-born artist, who grew up in Israel and is now based in New York, one of the main protagonists of the contemporary world scene, appropriates the impressive volumes of the Sala delle Ciminiere and the museum foyer to animate eleven of his most recent productions – sculptural objects and video installations – famous for their sarcastic and bizarre narrative register.
“The man on the moon”, until April 28, 2019
On the occasion of the release of “The man on the moon”, the latest children’s book by Seymour Chwast , one of the greatest American graphic designers , Corraini Edizioni presents a selection of books, illustrations and anti-war posters created by the author from the 50s to today.
“The Great New York Subway Map – The Big Map of the New York Metro ” , until May 5, 2019
Inside a carriage of the New York subway recreated for the occasion, the illustrations by Emiliano Ponzi create a circular path, a tribute to the great designer Massimo Vignelli , who designed the map of the subway.
corrainiMAMbo artbookshop – via Don Minzoni 14
“The Great Battle”, until April 28, 2019
An exhibition that brings together the original illustrations of the latest book by Andrea Antinori, “The Great Battle” ( Corraini Edizioni): a story of rain, yellow raincoats and great struggles.
Opening hours: March 31st, 6pm to 8pm; April 1, 15-20; 2 and 3 April 10-19 hours; 4 April 10-22; ordinary opening hours: Tuesday and Wednesday 10 am-6.30pm; Thursday 10 am-10pm; Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10 am-6.30pm
MAST – via Speranza 42
“Thomas Struth : Nature & Politics “, until 22 April 2019
Thomas Struth has become famous throughout the world thanks to his photographs of urban views, individual and family portraits, large-format images taken in museums and photographs in the “Paradise” series. In recent years he has addressed and illustrated a new theme: science and technology.
Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
“The faces of the Buddha from the lost Indian Museum of Bologna”, until 28 April 2019
The exhibition, curated by Luca Villa, recomposes for the first time a large part of the collections belonging to the Indian Museum of Bologna, now divided and preserved in three different locations: the Medieval Civic Museum itself , the Palazzo Poggi Museum in Bologna and the Museum of Anthropology of the University of Padua.
“Praise for every hour. Franciscan choirs from the Basilica of San Francesco”, until 2 June 2019
The exhibition, held as part of the Franciscan Festival, presents a large selection of the various liturgical cycles, created between the 13th and 15th centuries for the Bolognese basilica of San Francesco, which are currently part of the rich collection of illuminated codices of the Medieval Civic Museum from Bologna.
