Amir - Accoglienza, musei, inclusione e relazione [Welcoming, museums, inclusion and relationship] is a project that was launched in September 2018 (the name in Arabic means ‘prince’) and is still ongoing. It is organised by a network of museums with the aim of offering cultural mediation activities led by citizens of foreign origins. It currently involves twenty mediators and eleven museums, collections, villages, churches and public spaces in Florence and Fiesole. The AMIR project is curated by Stazione Utopia and the thematic museum network Musei di Tutti and involves the Museum and Archaeological Area of Fiesole, Museo Bandini, Museo Primo Conti, Museo di Palazzo Vecchio, Museo Novecento, Museo degli Innocenti and other sites involved, including the Art Collection of the Fondazione CR Firenze, Borgo di Quaracchi, Borgo and church of Santa Maria a Peretola, Villa Medicea La Petraia, Garden of Villa Medicea di Castello, in collaboration with the Regional Museums Directorate of Tuscany. The project is made possible by funding from the Region of Tuscany and the Fondazione CR Firenze.
18.11 h. 16.00
Traveling visit
COLONIAL FLORENCE
In the "cradle of the Renaissance" the colonial past of the city remains barely perceptible, but still today streets, monuments, plaques recall companies and often removed protagonists: from Piazza Adua, to the plaque dedicated to General Baldissera who fought an occupation war in Africa, from obelisk in Piazza dell'Unità at the Colonial Herbarium, traces of our colonial past scattered in the toponymy of our cities, but mostly forgotten or hidden, help to tell the very story of the Italian invasion of the territories of Eritrea, Somalia, of Libya and Ethiopia, subjected first to liberal governments and then to the fascist regime between 1885 and 1941.
*Thanks for content and inspiration: Postcolonial Italy.
**In partnership with The Recovery Plan
***thanks to Carmen Belmonte and Agnese Ghezzi for their advice and for their collaboration Studio Galleria Romanelli.
18.11 h. 16.00
Traveling visit
COLONIAL FLORENCE
In the "cradle of the Renaissance" the colonial past of the city remains barely perceptible, but still today streets, monuments, plaques recall companies and often removed protagonists: from Piazza Adua, to the plaque dedicated to General Baldissera who fought an occupation war in Africa, from obelisk in Piazza dell'Unità at the Colonial Herbarium, traces of our colonial past scattered in the toponymy of our cities, but mostly forgotten or hidden, help to tell the very story of the Italian invasion of the territories of Eritrea, Somalia, of Libya and Ethiopia, subjected first to liberal governments and then to the fascist regime between 1885 and 1941.
*Thanks for content and inspiration: Postcolonial Italy.
**In partnership with The Recovery Plan
***thanks to Carmen Belmonte and Agnese Ghezzi for their advice and for their collaboration Studio Galleria Romanelli.
21.10 h. 18.00
Peretola Square
BARSENE AND THE LEGACY OF WOMEN: THE HISTORY OF THE REVOLT OF THE TRECIAIOLE OF
PERETOLA
The production of straw hats offered employment to many women, who through their work redeemed entire communities, even in Peretola. At the end of the 19th century, the crisis and the competition from products from China, Japan and Java dragged entire families into poverty, and the first to pay the consequences were the workers. Among them, Barsene Conti, who animated a revolt, which lasted more than a month which was also joined by the tobacconists of Florence, the braiders of Fiesole and the straw weavers of Empoli. In the end, they were defeated but their bravery marks a crucial and little known moment of the union battles in Italy.
21.10 h. 18.00
Peretola Square
BARSENE AND THE LEGACY OF WOMEN: THE HISTORY OF THE REVOLT OF THE TRECIAIOLE OF
PERETOLA
The production of straw hats offered employment to many women, who through their work redeemed entire communities, even in Peretola. At the end of the 19th century, the crisis and the competition from products from China, Japan and Java dragged entire families into poverty, and the first to pay the consequences were the workers. Among them, Barsene Conti, who animated a revolt, which lasted more than a month which was also joined by the tobacconists of Florence, the braiders of Fiesole and the straw weavers of Empoli. In the end, they were defeated but their bravery marks a crucial and little known moment of the union battles in Italy.
18.11 h. 16.00
Traveling visit
COLONIAL FLORENCE
In the "cradle of the Renaissance" the colonial past of the city remains barely perceptible, but still today streets, monuments, plaques recall companies and often removed protagonists: from Piazza Adua, to the plaque dedicated to General Baldissera who fought an occupation war in Africa, from obelisk in Piazza dell'Unità at the Colonial Herbarium, traces of our colonial past scattered in the toponymy of our cities, but mostly forgotten or hidden, help to tell the very story of the Italian invasion of the territories of Eritrea, Somalia, of Libya and Ethiopia, subjected first to liberal governments and then to the fascist regime between 1885 and 1941.
*Thanks for content and inspiration: Postcolonial Italy.
**In partnership with The Recovery Plan
***thanks to Carmen Belmonte and Agnese Ghezzi for their advice and for their collaboration Studio Galleria Romanelli.
18.11 h. 16.00
Traveling visit
COLONIAL FLORENCE
In the "cradle of the Renaissance" the colonial past of the city remains barely perceptible, but still today streets, monuments, plaques recall companies and often removed protagonists: from Piazza Adua, to the plaque dedicated to General Baldissera who fought an occupation war in Africa, from obelisk in Piazza dell'Unità at the Colonial Herbarium, traces of our colonial past scattered in the toponymy of our cities, but mostly forgotten or hidden, help to tell the very story of the Italian invasion of the territories of Eritrea, Somalia, of Libya and Ethiopia, subjected first to liberal governments and then to the fascist regime between 1885 and 1941.
*Thanks for content and inspiration: Postcolonial Italy.
**In partnership with The Recovery Plan
***thanks to Carmen Belmonte and Agnese Ghezzi for their advice and for their collaboration Studio Galleria Romanelli.
18.11 h. 16.00
Traveling visit
COLONIAL FLORENCE
In the "cradle of the Renaissance" the colonial past of the city remains barely perceptible, but still today streets, monuments, plaques recall companies and often removed protagonists: from Piazza Adua, to the plaque dedicated to General Baldissera who fought an occupation war in Africa, from obelisk in Piazza dell'Unità at the Colonial Herbarium, traces of our colonial past scattered in the toponymy of our cities, but mostly forgotten or hidden, help to tell the very story of the Italian invasion of the territories of Eritrea, Somalia, of Libya and Ethiopia, subjected first to liberal governments and then to the fascist regime between 1885 and 1941.
*Thanks for content and inspiration: Postcolonial Italy.
**In partnership with The Recovery Plan
***thanks to Carmen Belmonte and Agnese Ghezzi for their advice and for their collaboration Studio Galleria Romanelli.
21.10 h. 18.00
Peretola Square
BARSENE AND THE LEGACY OF WOMEN: THE HISTORY OF THE REVOLT OF THE TRECIAIOLE OF
PERETOLA
The production of straw hats offered employment to many women, who through their work redeemed entire communities, even in Peretola. At the end of the 19th century, the crisis and the competition from products from China, Japan and Java dragged entire families into poverty, and the first to pay the consequences were the workers. Among them, Barsene Conti, who animated a revolt, which lasted more than a month which was also joined by the tobacconists of Florence, the braiders of Fiesole and the straw weavers of Empoli. In the end, they were defeated but their bravery marks a crucial and little known moment of the union battles in Italy.
18.11 h. 16.00
Traveling visit
COLONIAL FLORENCE
In the "cradle of the Renaissance" the colonial past of the city remains barely perceptible, but still today streets, monuments, plaques recall companies and often removed protagonists: from Piazza Adua, to the plaque dedicated to General Baldissera who fought an occupation war in Africa, from obelisk in Piazza dell'Unità at the Colonial Herbarium, traces of our colonial past scattered in the toponymy of our cities, but mostly forgotten or hidden, help to tell the very story of the Italian invasion of the territories of Eritrea, Somalia, of Libya and Ethiopia, subjected first to liberal governments and then to the fascist regime between 1885 and 1941.
*Thanks for content and inspiration: Postcolonial Italy.
**In partnership with The Recovery Plan
***thanks to Carmen Belmonte and Agnese Ghezzi for their advice and for their collaboration Studio Galleria Romanelli.
02.10 h. 15.00
06.11 h. 15.00
04.12 h. 15.00
twentieth century museum
OPEN WORKS
The visit will allow you to get closer to some works chosen thanks to the guidance of voices belonging to different cultures: the public will be able to observe forms, codes, meanings of Italian art of our time and understand how the work of art really is "open", able to activate ever new forms of reflection, interpretation and dialogue, "active center of a network of inexhaustible relationships" (U. Eco).
*BOOKINGS:info@musefirenze.it
055 2768224
18.11 h. 16.00
Traveling visit
COLONIAL FLORENCE
In the "cradle of the Renaissance" the colonial past of the city remains barely perceptible, but still today streets, monuments, plaques recall companies and often removed protagonists: from Piazza Adua, to the plaque dedicated to General Baldissera who fought an occupation war in Africa, from obelisk in Piazza dell'Unità at the Colonial Herbarium, traces of our colonial past scattered in the toponymy of our cities, but mostly forgotten or hidden, help to tell the very story of the Italian invasion of the territories of Eritrea, Somalia, of Libya and Ethiopia, subjected first to liberal governments and then to the fascist regime between 1885 and 1941.
*Thanks for content and inspiration: Postcolonial Italy.
**In partnership with The Recovery Plan
***thanks to Carmen Belmonte and Agnese Ghezzi for their advice and for their collaboration Studio Galleria Romanelli.
18.11 h. 16.00
Traveling visit
COLONIAL FLORENCE
In the "cradle of the Renaissance" the colonial past of the city remains barely perceptible, but still today streets, monuments, plaques recall companies and often removed protagonists: from Piazza Adua, to the plaque dedicated to General Baldissera who fought an occupation war in Africa, from obelisk in Piazza dell'Unità at the Colonial Herbarium, traces of our colonial past scattered in the toponymy of our cities, but mostly forgotten or hidden, help to tell the very story of the Italian invasion of the territories of Eritrea, Somalia, of Libya and Ethiopia, subjected first to liberal governments and then to the fascist regime between 1885 and 1941.
*Thanks for content and inspiration: Postcolonial Italy.
**In partnership with The Recovery Plan
***thanks to Carmen Belmonte and Agnese Ghezzi for their advice and for their collaboration Studio Galleria Romanelli.
18.11 h. 16.00
Traveling visit
COLONIAL FLORENCE
In the "cradle of the Renaissance" the colonial past of the city remains barely perceptible, but still today streets, monuments, plaques recall companies and often removed protagonists: from Piazza Adua, to the plaque dedicated to General Baldissera who fought an occupation war in Africa, from obelisk in Piazza dell'Unità at the Colonial Herbarium, traces of our colonial past scattered in the toponymy of our cities, but mostly forgotten or hidden, help to tell the very story of the Italian invasion of the territories of Eritrea, Somalia, of Libya and Ethiopia, subjected first to liberal governments and then to the fascist regime between 1885 and 1941.
*Thanks for content and inspiration: Postcolonial Italy.
**In partnership with The Recovery Plan
***thanks to Carmen Belmonte and Agnese Ghezzi for their advice and for their collaboration Studio Galleria Romanelli.
18.11 h. 16.00
Traveling visit
COLONIAL FLORENCE
In the "cradle of the Renaissance" the colonial past of the city remains barely perceptible, but still today streets, monuments, plaques recall companies and often removed protagonists: from Piazza Adua, to the plaque dedicated to General Baldissera who fought an occupation war in Africa, from obelisk in Piazza dell'Unità at the Colonial Herbarium, traces of our colonial past scattered in the toponymy of our cities, but mostly forgotten or hidden, help to tell the very story of the Italian invasion of the territories of Eritrea, Somalia, of Libya and Ethiopia, subjected first to liberal governments and then to the fascist regime between 1885 and 1941.
*Thanks for content and inspiration: Postcolonial Italy.
**In partnership with The Recovery Plan
***thanks to Carmen Belmonte and Agnese Ghezzi for their advice and for their collaboration Studio Galleria Romanelli.
Past events
GLI SGUARDI E L'ARCHIVIO FOTOGRAFICO
TRACCE, SEGNI E MEMORIE
19, 22, 27, 29 settembre 2023
WORKSHOP
Archivi in Rete e AMIR presentano un workshop gratuito rivolto a per riflettere sulla fotografia come strumento di costruzione di rappresentazioni, fonte di memoria e oggetto per generare nuove narrazioni. Il workshop vuole essere l’occasione per guardare insieme i materiali fotografici del fondo Carlo Guidotti dell’Archivio Fotografico Lucchese, relativi all’Etiopia e all’Eritrea nel 1935-1936, durante il periodo di occupazione coloniale da parte dell’Italia. Partendo dalla consapevolezza che l’archivio fotografico non è un contenitore neutro ma uno spazio in cui si accumulano storie e punti di vista, gli incontri saranno un momento di confronto sulla fotografia, sul potere delle immagini e sulla possibilità di ricontestualizzare visioni legate al passato per dialogare con il nostro presente.
Il workshop è rivolto a persone con passato migratorio: rifugiate/i, richiedenti asilo, persone con permessi di soggiorno temporaneo o di lungo periodo, cittadine/i italiane/i, giovani delle seconde generazioni con una conoscenza dell’italiano tale da poter seguire e partecipare attivamente agli incontri. È previsto un rimborso spese per le/i partecipanti.
Il percorso è inoltre aperto, a titolo gratuito, per uditrici/uditori attive/i.
Archivi in Rete è un progetto della Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca in collaborazione con il Comune di Lucca volto a valorizzare il patrimonio fotografico delle istituzioni cittadine, attraverso il coinvolgimento attivo di numerosi enti conservatori e lo sviluppo di strumenti digitali, attività educative e azioni di coinvolgimento pubblico.
ISCRIZIONI APERTE FINO AL 18 SETTEMBRE!
SCRIVICI A:
oppure a edu@stazioneutopia.com
3884609980
ENCOUNTERS IN AN ARCHIVE. OBJECTS OF MIGRATION / PHOTO OBJECTS OF ART HISTORY
A marzo 2022 alcuni mediatori e mediatrici del progetto Amir sono stati invitati alla Fototeca del Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut in occasione di un'istallazione temporanea proposta dalla Fototeca e da Massimo Ricciardo.
Massimo Ricciardo ha raccolto in Sicilia e a Lampedusa oggetti di migrati fin dal 2013; nell’installazione Encounters li fa dialogare con fotografie della Fototeca del Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz. Il progetto genera quesiti di stringente attualità intorno a questi oggetti “parlanti”, evidenziando le tassonomie che regolano ogni archivio, ma anche le società contemporanee.
I dialoghi iniziati intorno all’installazione di Ricciardo proseguono in un libro appena pubblicato: questa polifonia di voci riecheggia nelle visite-evento.
*In collaborazione con la Fototeca del Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
GIORNATE DI STUDIO 15 - 16 DICEMBRE 2022
MUSEI E DECOLONIALITÀ
Pratiche per un dialogo critico e polifonico sul passato e sul futuro
Qual è il ruolo dei musei e del patrimonio culturale nella costruzione di nuove narrative capaci di riconoscere la diversità e favorire il dialogo interculturale? Come possono i musei mettere in risonanza la propria identità e le proprie collezioni con voci e sguardi che provengono dal margine, favorendo la riflessione a partire da identità marginalizzate e sotto rappresentate? In che modo i musei, particolarmente quelli che conservano ed espongono collezioni europee, possono partecipare con un contributo originale alle pratiche di decolonizzazione sperimentate in questi anni dai musei di origine coloniale?
Un seminario per discutere e confrontarci, partendo dall’esperienza maturata dal progetto Amir accoglienza musei inclusione relazione, sulla natura stessa del museo un tempo emblema della cultura occidentale e oggi possibile luogo per le comunità in trasformazione.
To partecipate
To the museum
Try to get therea few minutes beforeof the start of the activity.
The established meeting point, except for different occasions, will be theremuseum ticket officewhere you are will carry out the activity you have chosen.
If you have difficultycontact us!
Reserved!
It will be possible to participate to the activities only throughreservation requiredby registering via the site, by calling the number388 4609980 or by sending an email toamirmuseums@gmail.com.*For the activities of the Palazzo Vecchio Museum and the Novecento Museum, please contact the MUS.ee teaching area and write toinfo@musefirenze.itor call the number055-2768224
Wait for confirmation
The secretariat will receive the reservation and will contact you to confirm the planned activity.
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Choose the activity
You can choose one or more visits or workshops.All activities are free. The activities take place in Italian or on request in the mother tongues of the AMIR mediators.
