Museum Experience

Museums are the places where visual culture lives and is collected. They are a place where history can be interpreted and where contemporary society can experiment new forms of participation, find its own roots and expand the understanding of the world in its various expressions. The course is designed to be an introduction to the museum studies and a reflection on audience development strategies. Students will learn how to relate with cultural heritage through theoretic analysis and visits. An important part of the course is the on site experiences of different typologies of museums and their approaches on display of collections and temporary exhibition and how these are mediated to the public in various real and virtual activities. These visits to the vast museum offer of the city of Florence, will be shared with the students of the Arts Management course, to deepen the museums functioning and to sharpen the exchange on project proposals.

The visits might include museums such as Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti, Museo and Villa bardini, Museo Novecento, Palazzo Strozzi, Villa Romana, The Recovery Plan, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci.

The last part of the course is a workshop on a Public Program event that will allow the student to practice the knowledge learned throughout the course.