, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, 171 pages, Size:220 x 280 mm, Illustrations:25 b/w, 80 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503583259.
Summary Do 21st-century women and men still believe that museums can, through the way they display art, help shape their visitors' sense of the dignity of the person? Through the readings of history and style which they propose, can museums help bridge the gap that today seems to separate present from past, isolating individuals and groups in a contemporaneity without roots? If so, how? If not, why? TABLE OF CONTENTS OPENING MESSAGES Sergio Givone Vice President of Opera Santa Maria del Fiore Alberto Bonisole Minister of Cultural Heritage and Activities Antonio Lampis General Director of Museums Antonio Paolucci Former Minister of Culture, Italy Former Director of the Musei Vaticani Foreword: Florence, Museums, Museology and Values Timothy Verdon Director, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence Rita Filardi Collection Manager, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence KEY TEXTS THE MUSEUM YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW Museums Change Lives Timothy Verdon Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence Museums and Values James Bradburne Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan Museum: Where are we from? Who are we? Where are we going? Michail Borisovich Piotrovsky General Director of the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg President of the Union of Museums of Russia Unity in Diversity One Louvre, Several Louvre Museums in the Twenty-First Century Jean-Luc Martinez Mus e du Louvre, Paris The Future of Museums Julien Chapuis Skulpturensammlung und Museum fr Byzantinische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Museology and Values Art and Human Dignity in the Twenty-First Century Maria Serlupi Crescenzi Musei Vaticani, Rome ROUND TABLE SESSION OTHER CULTURAL VIEWPOINTS Reanimating Sacred Art for a Secular Age: Art & Religion at the National Gallery, London Susanna Avery-Quash Senior Research Curator (History of Collecting), The National Gallery, London Visitor Engagement: Designing Dignity Allen Quine The Museum of the Bible, Washington D.C. The Museum Considered as a Moral Institution Suggestions from Schiller Theory of Theater Eike Schmidt Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence Competing Values Cristina Acidini Academy of Design Arts, Florence Presenting Roles and Challenges of Curating Islamic Art in Qatar Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya Museum of Islamic Art, Doha Best Practice: The Galleria dellafter the Reform of 2015 Cecilie Hollberg Galleria dellAccademia, Florence What Is a Museum? Christian Greco Museo Egizio, Turin Six Dreams for an Art Museum Ulrike Lorenz Kunsthalle Mannheim Prestigious Collections, New Audiences Paola Marini Galleria dellAccademia, Florence ROUND TABLE SESSION THE VIEWPOINT OF ARCHITECTS AND MUSEOLOGISTS Doubts and Questions Adolfo Natalini Natalini Architetti, Florence The Museum and the Form of Contemporaneity Paolo Biscottini Universit Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan The Museum of the Duomo of Milan Guido Canali Canali Associates The Museum Maria Concetta Di Natale Universit degli Studi, Palermo The Museum We Believe In Marco Magni Guicciardini & Magni Architetti Confessions of an Exhibition Designer Boris Micka BMA Boris Micka Associates, Spain The 'Caring Museum' A New Proposal for an Inclusive Museum Adeline Rispal Studio Adeline Rispal, Paris Identity and Mission Authors Biographies