European Landscape Day 2016
Collective cultural and landscape heritage, essential element in the lives of populations and in their identities
A series of different activities, each one typical of the ecomuseum which promotes it and coherent with the time and place in which it is carried out, aim at showing the diversity and the landscape as sum of endless, small or big, concrete or abstract gestures.
A public event which draws the attention of citizens, mass-media and authorities to the activities that each ecomuseum has carried out or will carry out for its landscape.
Obviously the activity of ecomuseums deals with the landscape, but the two words – ecomuseum and landscape – can also take on different and contrasting meanings. It's better to shed some light on this matter, in particular after the coming into force of the European Landscape Convention.
As a matter of fact, there is a correspondence between the thirty-year challenge of the ecomuseums and the intentions of the Convention: the former want to take the museum beyond the dimension of a static and exclusive institution, the latter aims at “protecting” the landscape from academic visions, which have been a burden, in Italy as well as in other countries, as for the distinction between what cultural assets are and are not.
Anyone can identify themselves with the definition of the Convention, which puts the population at the heart of the concept of landscape, saying that: “ the landscape is an important element for the quality of life of the populations everywhere: in urban areas and in countryside, in degraded as well as in high-quality areas, in special areas, as well as in areas of daily life”.
Many ecomuseums in Italy and Europe have launched activities for the knowledge, the preservation and the enhancement of the landscape, in line with the Convention's intentions. That's the reason for the promotion of this public event, which aims at pointing out year after year all the activities carried out by the ecomuseums for the knowledge, the active protection and the responsible transformation of the places in which they work.
The Ecomuseums of Trentino and European Landscape Day 2016
Wednesday 04 May 2016Palazzo Roccabruna · Trento
Let me tell you about this valley
Saturday 14 May 2016Ecomuseum of the Valle del Chiese · Condino
Let me tell you about this valley
Sunday 12 June 2016Ecomuseum of the Valle del Chiese · Condino
Festival of St. Anthony in Strombiano
from 17/06/2016 to 19/06/2016Ecomuseum of Val di Peio · Peio
Fiftieth anniversary of the flood of 1966 in eastern Valsugana
from 21/06/2016 to 21/12/2016Ecomuseum of Valsugana · Strigno
Festa del Sòrc
from 23/06/2016 to 26/06/2016Ecomuseum of Valle del Vanoi · Canal San Bovo
Paper landscapes
from 05/07/2016 to 23/07/2016Ecomuseum of Tesino · Pieve Tesino
Colours and gifts of nature
Thursday 07 July 2016Ecomuseum of Lagorai · Telve
Colours and gifts of nature
Sunday 10 July 2016Ecomuseum of Lagorai · Telve
Mining landscape
from 29/07/2016 to 30/07/2016Ecomuseum of Valle del Vanoi · Canal San Bovo
Reading the landscape of the hill
from 30/07/2016 to 31/07/2016Ecomuseum of Argentario · Civezzano
Let me tell you about this valley
Saturday 10 September 2016Ecomuseum of the Valle del Chiese · Condino
Valle del Magnone, gateway to the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve from the Dolomites to Lake Garda
Sunday 11 September 2016Ecomuseum of Judicaria · Comano Terme
Let me tell you about this valley
Saturday 08 October 2016Ecomuseum of the Valle del Chiese · Condino
Landscape Day and National walking day
Sunday 09 October 2016Ecomuseum of Judicaria · Comano Terme
organization: Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Ecomusei del Trentino