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Pietanze d’Arte a Domicilio (“Art Dishes Delivery at Home”; Aoulia, Italy)
During the Covid-19 restrictions for theatres and cultural centres, the project “Art Dishes Delivery” offered a delivery service of the artistic performances at home. The artist chosen from the proposed menu reached the public at home (garden or terrace – open space). It was possible to book a performance (theatre, music, poetry, dance) lasting up to fifteen minutes. The proposals of the Asteria Space menu were available in the cities of Palo del Colle and Bitonto (Aoulia, Italy) every Friday from February 19th 2021. Background ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE “ASTERIA SPACE” (Cultural association “ASTERIA SPACE”) is a private cultural centre for the artists belonging to five categories - theatre/dance, music, writing, visual…
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COVID-19 Vaccination Hub at the Museum (Lecce, Italy)
In Italy, all museums were closed due to coronavirus restrictions. The Museum Castromediano of Lecce, Puglia’s oldest museum, whose large archaeological collection dates back to the Palaeolithic and Neolithic ages, has re-opened its doors during the lockdown in March 2021 as a COVID-19 vaccination hub. Thousands of people can get their vaccine and look at specially-selected exhibitions at the site for free. Background The Museum “Sigismondo Castromediano” is the oldest public museum in Apulia. Founded in 1868 by Sigismondo Castromediano, a 19th-century Lecce patriot and archaeologist, it traces the history of Salento from prehistory to the Messapian civilisation and 20th-century art. Target group (usually): local people, tourists. The Museum has…
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A museum about history is writing history (Galway, Ireland)
The Galway City Museum is, as one might guess by the name, a museum about the history of Galway. In this article, it will be discussed how the museum has changed and innovated during covid-19, and which of these implications they will keep in the future. What really stood out, is that the museum tried to connect with locals even more than before. Besides the fact that this might lead to more visitors, online and physical, it is a really nice way to help with the societal issue of loneliness that the pandemic caused. Background The Galway City Museum was first established in 1971. The repository began with a residual…
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