The most important part of ‘Centro Musei delle Scienze Naturali’, Università di Napoli Federico II, exist since two centuries, in many cases by the foundation situated in the same extraordinary rooms part of an XVII century Jesuit College. So it is deep rooted on territory, not only as adjourned and lively centre of scientific research but also as symbol of prestigious scientific tradition of Neapolitan Kingdom in Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries. To properly interpreter the original identity of such an institution, an exhibition thought to give back the complete sense of those museums and their collections needs to put in evidence both these sides, reconciling past and future, communicating scientific information don’t ignoring its long history, but using it to catch visitors, exposing the birth and development of modern science of nature thorough the stories of men and women who made them possible with their studies and discoveries, trying to find out how much the personal life, human contacts, character etc. of each one of them are responsible, in a sense, of their scientific interest. The first and more direct goal of such an exhibition is, of course, try to excite interest in science eliciting emotions, showing the ancient fascinating rooms as the place where the history had been going on across centuries. The second – not secondary – but indirect goal is try to open wide this particular kind of museums to a public far larger than the university’s elites represented by people who already attend it as student or employee, showing the friendly face of Univeristy no more closed in its exclusive ‘templa serena’ but appropriating again of its former role cultural heart of city and public patrimony of everyone. So to stress excellence of Neapolitan science and how the history of science determined history of the territory and of common people living in there (studies of mineralogy determined the birth of a certain number of miners i. e.) is fundamental to make local everyday people – not only tourists - feel allowed to enter museums’ university as their own home, a place where discover a lost part of their identity.
'The time machine' a Minerals tale / Ghiara, MARIA ROSARIA; Petti, Carmela; Toscano, M.. - (2011). (Intervento presentato al convegno ESF conference:Re-visiting the Contact Zone:Museums, Theory, Practice tenutosi a Scandic Linkoping Vast Linkoping SwedenC nel 17-21 July).
'The time machine' a Minerals tale
GHIARA, MARIA ROSARIA;PETTI, CARMELA;
2011
Abstract
The most important part of ‘Centro Musei delle Scienze Naturali’, Università di Napoli Federico II, exist since two centuries, in many cases by the foundation situated in the same extraordinary rooms part of an XVII century Jesuit College. So it is deep rooted on territory, not only as adjourned and lively centre of scientific research but also as symbol of prestigious scientific tradition of Neapolitan Kingdom in Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries. To properly interpreter the original identity of such an institution, an exhibition thought to give back the complete sense of those museums and their collections needs to put in evidence both these sides, reconciling past and future, communicating scientific information don’t ignoring its long history, but using it to catch visitors, exposing the birth and development of modern science of nature thorough the stories of men and women who made them possible with their studies and discoveries, trying to find out how much the personal life, human contacts, character etc. of each one of them are responsible, in a sense, of their scientific interest. The first and more direct goal of such an exhibition is, of course, try to excite interest in science eliciting emotions, showing the ancient fascinating rooms as the place where the history had been going on across centuries. The second – not secondary – but indirect goal is try to open wide this particular kind of museums to a public far larger than the university’s elites represented by people who already attend it as student or employee, showing the friendly face of Univeristy no more closed in its exclusive ‘templa serena’ but appropriating again of its former role cultural heart of city and public patrimony of everyone. So to stress excellence of Neapolitan science and how the history of science determined history of the territory and of common people living in there (studies of mineralogy determined the birth of a certain number of miners i. e.) is fundamental to make local everyday people – not only tourists - feel allowed to enter museums’ university as their own home, a place where discover a lost part of their identity.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
