Visit Modena "Stone Stories" Project
Taking all these reflections into account, in 2009 the project Stone Stories was born in order to educate the students, both of the school and university, to the heritage and cultural participation.
The project has been going on over the years as educational and research-action activities in collaboration with several Institutions: museums, advanced schools, local and regional authorities etc…, leading to the involvement of hundreds of students and to the participation of thousands of visitors. In each edition, students guided the public through narrative walks across the citizen’s (historical, artistic, architectonic and museum) heritage following a leading wire, different year by year:
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From the museum to the territory, going through the school, is the path that the students have followed during the different phases of the various editions of the project. The “construction of the knowledge”, with meeting in the museum and in the territory, is the first educative moment that introduces to the second phase of “elaboration of knowledge”, both in school and in museum, to end with the “transmission of the knowledge” of the students to the public in visit paths in the museum and in the local reality.
With Stone Stories, the Gemma 1786 University Museum have been transformed in a privileged place of education and meeting, while the collection have become a reading instrument of the historical-cultural evolution of the local territory and of its urban heritage.
In 2012, Stone Stories was among the awarded projects in the competition “I love the Cultural Heritage” of IBC-Emilia Romagna Region.
In 2016, ICOM Italia selected Stone Stories among 35 projects that national wide had been presented in the 24th General Conference ICOM (Milan, 3-9 July 2016) as “excellent practice in the relationship between museum and cultural landscape”.
