Il Museo nel sistema dell’arte come Casa delle Culture

Abstract

Nowadays, a careful consideration concerning the new educational scenarios of our multicultural society cannot ignore the fundamental role of specific public institutions such as the museums, which can be construed as the actual driving forces of culture and disseminators of knowledge. In recent years the museum institution has renewed its numerous functions.Within this ever-evolving and ever-changing framework, the purposes, methodologies and instruments of the museum education have also changed; accordingly, the museum education has been redefined, by focusing its own attention on the design of increasingly qualified proposals aimed at active users. An educational and didactic place, a space of convergence between different cultural proposals, the museum becomes more and more "Home of Cultures″, constituting a privileged territory to "light up" the multiple cultures that are intertwined in our globalized era. Actually, among the museum objectives, it is of significant importance the promotion and the fusion of local and global visions, the meeting between the center and the periphery, between the north and the south of the world, the intertwining between the past and the present and between the nearby and the far. Furthermore, today great attention is addressed to the psychophysical well-being of visitors who, as ″passive″ viewers, become - thanks to the new museology and museography tools – ″active″ interlocutors not only of the work of art but also of the art event. Therefore, new types of museums are emerging, all communicative and inclusive, responding to the new social: dialogue and comparison and sharing of transnational heritage.