Conferences, workshops, concerts, guided tours, visits in language are the main "tools" of this story, which unfolds over 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 15th to Thursday 21st March.
IN EVIDENCE
Sunday 17 March
5pm: Museo della Musica - Strada Maggiore 34
As part of the Wunderkammer review. The museum of wonders
"Not just Stradivarius. How the Bolognese violin is made"
For the cycle "How is it made? The music seen from within", meeting with Bruno Stefanini, Stefanini violin making.
Through the study of the violin the meeting with Master Liutaio Otello Bignami, director of the School of Bolognese Violin Making, takes place, which Bruno Stefanini attends from 1979 to 1983 when he obtains the Master Liutaio diploma.
FOR CHILDREN
Saturday, March 16th
10.30 am: Music Museum - Strada Maggiore 34
On the occasion of The Best of
"The music of the places" (II meeting)
Sound-movement workshop in 3 meetings for children from 3 to 5 years.
Designed and conducted by Chiara Castaldini and Marina Maffioli in collaboration with Associazione Formati sensitive.
A laboratory that deals with doing, listening, playing, drawing - children and parents together - experiencing the pleasure of creating through music and movement. The small participants, together with the adults, are led to listen to music and sounds belonging to a place (on earth, in the sky, inside the sea), urged to play in contact with each other or with objects, to listen beyond words.
4.00 pm: MAMbo - Museum of Modern Art of Bologna - via Don Minzoni 14
"Like teens spirit . Building an exhibition: instructions for use " Workshop for children aged 11 to 15 years.
Mika Rottenberg's video installations become the starting point for a journey to "touch" contemporary languages, discover the secrets of the trade and what it means to be an artist today.
The encounter with the installations and the exhibited works allows the children to actively experiment the relationship between image, narration and space to find new ways to interpret the present and the society in which we live.
4.00 pm: Industrial Heritage Museum - via della Beverara 123
"Air: planes, kites and missiles" Workshop for children aged 6 to 10 years.
Laboratory experiences and scientific games to learn about and study some of the characteristics of the air and build flying objects with recycled materials.
THE OTHER APPOINTMENTS
Friday 15 March
5pm: Medieval Museum - via Manzoni 4 / 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 Medieval Museum and the QUADRERIA. Palazzo Rossi Poggi Marsili" Guided tour with Ilaria Negretti, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
Saturday, March 16th
10.30 am: Municipal Art Collections, Palazzo d'Accursio - Piazza Maggiore 6
"The soul and the body. Images of the sacred and the profane between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age " Guided tour of the exhibition with Ilaria Negretti, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full / € 3.00 reduced)
2.30pm: Certosa Cemetery - Via della Certosa 18
"Say it with flowers"
A spring walk together with Roberto Martorelli, Civic Museum of the Risorgimento, entirely dedicated to the floral decorations in Certosa. Lilies, roses, poppies, festoons and cornucopias are not only decorative elements, but were chosen with precise symbolic meanings.
Meeting at the main entrance of the Certosa (Church courtyard).
16.00: Archaeological Museum - via dell'Archiginnasio 2
Within the cycle The thread of time. Fabric production in antiquity
"From the tunic to the mummy: study and conservation of Egyptian fabrics" Conference by Cinzia Oliva, fabric restorer.
Admission: free subject to availability
5pm: Museo della Musica - Strada Maggiore 34
As part of the Wunderkammer review. The museum of wonders
"Horns and horns. Codes affect the infinite"
For the cycle " Re- Creations III. The told museum collections", organized by Associazione Athena Musica - Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, meeting with Antonio Serravezza.
Sunday 17 March
10.30 am-1 pm and 3.00 pm-3.30 pm: Music Museum - Strada Maggiore 34
As part of the Wunderkammer review. The museum of wonders
"Music to see ... on Sunday"
"Open question" guided tours of the museum collections with Giuseppe Ayroldi Sagarriga , Museum of Music.
10.30 am: Davia Bargellini Museum - Strada Maggiore 44
For the cycle The museum that cannot be seen
"A new portrait of Cardinal Giovanni Antonio Davia " Guided tour with Massimo Medica and Maura Favale.
11 am: Museum for the Memory of Ustica - via di Saliceto 3/22
"Guided tour of the Ustica Memorial Museum"
A visit to the place that the French artist Christian Boltanski has created for the city in memory of the victims of the Ustica tragedy. An opportunity to reflect on the memory and identity of each of us, retracing the events of our contemporary history.
hours 15-18: MAMbo - Museum of Modern Art of Bologna - via Don Minzoni 14
On the occasion of the exhibition No, Oreste, No! Diaries from an impossible archive
"Broche brothers. The excess"
Performance of the Broche Brothers by Adiacenze. Afterwards, a brief presentation on the Fratelli Broche factory and a debate concerning the use of waste materials in the arts and beyond.
4.00 pm: Industrial Heritage Museum - via della Beverara 123
"In the footsteps of Leonardo"
Treasure hunt for families (children from 8 years).
Treasure hunt for the museum rooms in search of traces of the technical and scientific heritage inspired by Leonardo da Vinci and his studies.
4 pm: Medieval Museum - via Manzoni 4
"The rediscovery of the Gothic in Jane Austen "
Dances of the early nineteenth century by the 8cento Association, with an introduction by Paolo Cova, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
Thursday 21 March
5.15 pm: MAMbo - Museum of Modern Art of Bologna - via Don Minzoni 14
"Reading the man ... on a 2019 page"
Lorenzo Balbi on "Art interprets time" reads and comments Franco "Vaccari Photography and technological unconscious". Presents: Enrico Camprini .
EXHIBITIONS
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 Industrial Heritage Museum and Women's Union in Italy (Bologna headquarters) 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
"William Hogarth . A visiting portrait from the Ghent Fine Arts Museum " , until April 28, 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 Museum of Fine Arts , 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 Argentine-born artist, who grew up in Israel and is now based in New York, one of the main protagonists of the contemporary world scene, takes possession of the imposing 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.
Villa delle Rose - via Zaragoza 228/230
" Goran Trbuljak . Before and After Retrospective ", until March 24, 2019
Continuing in the direction towards the rediscovery and enhancement of artists active on the international scene, Villa delle Rose hosts the first retrospective in an Italian museum institution of Goran Trbuljak , curated by Lorenzo Balbi and Andrea Bellini.
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.
Bentivoglio Palace - via del Borgo di San Pietro 1
"Jacopo Benassi . Bologna Portraits ", until March 31st 2019
A new exhibition space dedicated to temporary exhibitions and events opens in Bologna in the basement of Palazzo Bentivoglio, in the heart of the city and close to its famous university area. The exhibition is inaugurated with the exhibition "Bologna Portraits " by Jacopo Benassi , curated by Antonio Grulli, which tells the artist's special relationship with the urban context.
National Pinacoteca of Bologna (Hall of the Incamminati) - via delle Belle Arti 56
"Carlo Valsecchi. MAN gasometer No. 3" , until March 31, 2019
The Hera Group, in collaboration with the Museum Complex of Emilia Romagna - Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, promotes "Gasometer MAN n. 3", the new project by Carlo Valsecchi: fourteen photographs that tell in a completely new and original way the metamorphosis of the gasometer of Bologna during the reclamation and restoration works promoted by the same multi-utility.
Palazzo d'Accursio (Cortile d'Onore) - Piazza Maggiore 6
"Eduard Habicher . Uni-Verso", until March 18, 2019
In the Cortile d'Onore of Palazzo d'Accursio you can see "Uni-Verso", a large sculpture by Eduard Habicher , the protagonist of a solo show at the same time as Gallery Studio G7, consisting of IPE140 steel beams modeled almost as if they were ductile matter and soft.
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, reassembles for the first time a large part of the collections belonging to the Indian Museum of Bologna, now subdivided 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 17 March 2019
The exhibition, held as part of the Franciscan Festival, presents a rich 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.
Municipal Art Collections, Palazzo d'Accursio - Piazza Maggiore 6
"The soul and the body. Images of the sacred and the profane between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age" , until 17 March 2019
The Civic Museums of Ancient Art are continuing their efforts to enhance the Municipal Art Collections in conjunction with the restoration work on the Palazzo d'Accursio roof, which is expected to be completed in spring 2019, promoting a new exhibition that revisits the vast permanent heritage in the light of a new thematic criterion.
