National Day of the Ecclesiastical Museums

On occasion of the fourth National Day of the Ecclesiastical Museums, free admission to the Museo Diocesano Tridentino on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 October.

The National Day of the Ecclesiastical Museums has been conceived by the Associazione Musei Ecclesiastici Italiani (A.M.E.I.) as an initiative to promote the knowledge of this category of museums.

The fil rouge of this fourth edition is: exchange, change, contamination.

"If I exchange, I change" is in fact the motto for the event this year: the museums taking part are invited to meditate on the concept of exchance, by making an exchange (of works, images, public, ideas ...) with similar museums, but also with other cultural institutions and museums of the area.

As protagonist of the National Day of the Ecclesiastical Museums in Trentino in 2016, the Museo Diocesano Tridentino, has lent to the MUSE La creazione di Eva (The Creation of Eve), an important painting made by Tullio Garbari in 1928. The work is exhibited in the MUSE section dedicated to the story of evolution.

On the other hand, the MUSE has lent to the Museo Diocesano Tridentino a flying grey in flight, which artist Annamaria Gelmi has used for her installation Leukos in the palatine chapel of the museum.

Here's the PROGRAMME:

Saturday 1 October 2016, at 11.00

Opening of the installation "Leukos"

with Annamaria Gelmi 

Saturday 1 October 2016, at 16.00

The image of the other, between stereotypes and prejudices 

Guided tour

A guided tour to discover how otherness is portrayed in the iconography of the past which is exhibited in the museum. A way to understand how rooted prejudices and old figurative stereotypes have reached us through the centuries and have hindered our ability to really meet the other.

Saturday 1 October 2016, at  16.00

Ready to fly?

Creative workshop for children (aged 3-9) organised by the Servizi Educativi (office for educational activities) of the Museo Diocesano Tridentino.

Saturday 1 October 2016, at  20.45

A journey to Kurdistan

Concert by Serhat Akbal

Serhat Akbal is a famous Kurdish musician and singer. As political refugee he has been living in Rovereto for the last 5 years. With his saz (also called baglama), a traditional string instrument which is very popular in the Middle East, he'll tell us the story of "the country which does not exist", Kurdistan, singing 500-year-old songs in Kurdish, Armenian, Turkish language.

Saturday 1 October 2016, at 21.30

Form and function of the panel altar in the late Gothic in Trentino

Meeting with Domizio Cattoi

Examination of the wonderful Flügelaltar from the Cathedral of S. Vigilio of Tassullo.

Sunday 2 October, at 16.00

Guided tour to the exhibition

Guided tour to the exhibition Ascolto la vita, scolpisco ciò che sento. La Via Crucis di Othmar Winkler per la chiesa di Maria Bambina a Trento ("I listen to life. I carve what I feel". Othmar Winkler's Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) for the church of Maria Bambina of Trento") 

Admission to the exhibition and guided tour are free.

Sunday 2 October, at 16.00

Discover the museum!

Treasure hunt for children aged 6-12

Sunday 2 October, at 20.45

Cathedral. Blind theatre

Show by the acting company "Il Funambolo"

Organised by Guido Laino (adaptation of texts from Raymond Carver's story "Cathedral")

With Emanuele Cerra, Tiziano Chiogna, Marta Marchi

The "Blind theatre" is a project that aims at blending the tradition of radio drama with the theatre and the live performance; as a result, the audience can overcome the limitation to sight and be open to their surprising powerful imagination.

Free admission to the Museo Diocesano Tridentino and all its events