Multaka international network
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MY MUSEO EGIZIO
Torino
MULTAKA BERN
Bernisches Historisches Museum
MUSEO EGIZIO DI
TORINO
AMIR PROJECT Firenze
Museo Civico Archeologico e Area Archeologica-Fiesole, Museo Bandini-Fiesole, Museo Giardino Primo Conti-Fiesole, Museo di Palazzo Vecchio, Firenze, Museo Novecento, Firenze
Museo degli Innocenti, Firenze
MULTAKA BERLIN
Museum for Islamic Art
Museum of Ancient Near East
Bode-Museum
German Historical Museum
MY MUSEO EGIZIO, TORINO
Museo Egizio
theMultaka International Network is a network of five different projects and is operating in Germany, England, Italy and Switzerland. The network was created in June 2019, as all members met in Berlin, Germany.
The network's members are Multaka Berlin, Multaka Oxford, Fondazione Museo delle Antichità Egizie in Torino, AMIR Project in Florence, Multaka Bern and the Initiative: Lucky who speaks Arabic in Turin. In total, these projects are active in 15 Museums around Europe, of which: The Museums of Islamic Art and the Ancient near East Museum in Pergamon Museum, The German historical Museum in Berlin, Bern Historical Museum, The University Museum of Oxford, Egyptian Museum of Turin, Museum Civic Archaeological and Archaeological Area, Fiesole, Bandini Museum, Fiesole, Primo Conti Museum and Garden, Fiesole, Palazzo Vecchio Museum, Florence, Novecento Museum, Florence, Museo degli Innocenti, Florence. The total number of individuals, who were trained into Guides or cultural mediators involved in this network isover a hundred newcomers, who have different cultural and professional backgrounds.
The main objectives of the network is, as well as its member projects, to diversify the museum structures by including people with migration backgrounds, thus different perspectives and to provide a safe space to engage in intercultural dialogue between both newcomer community and local community while exploring art, history and even one's own cultural heritage.
GERMANY - BERLIN
Multaka: Museum as Meeting Point – Refugees as Guides in Berlin Museums
The project was initiated in 2015 by the Museum of Islamic Art (Pergamon Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)in cooperation with the Museum of the Ancient Near East, the Bode-Museum and the German Historical Museum and their educational departments. As part of "Multaka: Museum as Meeting Point – Refugees as Guides in Berlin Museums", 21 Syrian and Iraqi new arrivals were trained as museum guides in order to offer interactive tours for other new arrivals in their native language. Since 2016, the guided tours have also been available in German and English. On the one hand, the guided tours transfer questions about historical objects to current debates in order to establish a link between the past and the present. The 21 guides involve visitors in the process of viewing and interpreting objects. The visitors thus become active participants through mutual dialogue and taking into account their own history. The project "Multaka: Museum as Meeting Point" hopes to facilitate access to the museum for new arrivals through low-threshold addressing and peer-to-peer communication and to help them find social and cultural points of contact as well as to increase their participation in public space. The project also conducts intercultural workshops in which people from different cultural backgrounds experience museums together and produce artefacts inspired by museum objects and personal encounters.
Museums:
Museum for Islamic Art
Museum of Ancient Near East
Bode Museum
German Historical Museum
Contacts:
Salma Jreige - Project coordination
Multaka: Treffpunkt Museum
c/o Museum für Islamic Kunst
Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse 6
10117 Berlin – Germany
ITALY - TURIN
My Egyptian Museum. Migrant women tell about the Museum
Since November 2016, eleven women from Northern Africa took part in a training course consisting of 10 lessons at the Museum, both in the classroom and in the galleries. They were taught about some aspects of the daily life in ancient Egypt. As a final work, they produced a nice booklet about the topics discussed, in Italian and Arabic. Thanks to this basic knowledge, they are able nowto guide short thematic tours in the galleries. Some of them are currently active part of the Association ACME (Friend of the Egyptian Museum) and they lead special tours in Arabic, Italian, French and English during special events. The same are also involved in the “Welcome Tours” offered to migrants and newcomers, in the framework of the European project “New Roots”.
museum:
Egyptian museum
Partner:
MIC – Worlds in the City Onlus
Contacts:
Alessia Fassone - Curator
Egyptian museum
via Accademia delle Scienze, 6 – 10123 Turin
tel. 0115617776
alessia.fassone@museoegizio.it
ITALY - FLORENCE
AMIR / Hospitality, Museums, Inclusion and Relationship
It is a joint project overseen by the Municipality of Fiesole, the Municipality of Florence, Associazione Mus.e, Istituto degli Innocenti, Fondazione Primo Conti and Stazione Utopia and supported by Fondazione CR Firenze.
Launched in September 2018, this project has trained 40 foreigners from 20 different countries —some of whom are long-time residents, while others are refugees—to lead visits through some of Florence and Fiesole's principal museums. The concept for AMIR derived from the desire to find a way for foreigners to be able to not only visit our museums, but also train them to lead guided tours to Italian, European and extra-Eu visitors. This opportunity essentially transforms them intoactive stakeholders in narrating our common cultural heritage. In the summer of 2019,Amir | like traveling seeds, a special edition of the project, was launched. This tour, in collaboration with Boboli Gardens and the Botanical Garden in Florence, explores the botanical and cultural diversity that resulted in gardens as well as their impact on cultures, cultivations, arts, and cuisines.
Museums:
Civic Archaeological Museum and Archaeological Area, Fiesole
Bandini Museum, Fiesole
Primo Conti Museum and Garden, Fiesole
Palazzo Vecchio Museum, Florence
Museo Novecento, Florence
Museum of the Innocents, Florence
Partners:
Boboli Gardens, Florence
Botanical Garden, Florence
CRF Foundation Collection
Contacts:
Chiara Damiani – Utopia Station
amirmuseums@gmail.com
SWITZERLAND - BERN
Multaka. Refugees present the museum
museum:
Bernisches Historisches Museum https://www.bhm.ch/en/
Partner:
Verein Multaka Bern
Contact:
Aline Minder, Head of Education and Outreach
aline.minder@bhm.ch
UNITED KINGDOM - OXFORD
Multaka-Oxford
museum:
History of Science Museum
Pitt Rivers Museum
Contact:
Nicola Bird - Project Manager for Multaka Oxford
nicola.bird@museums.ox.ac.uk
Email: outreach@oum.ox.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1865 282 456