Treviso museums will reopen for free and under the banner of art therapy: works as medicine

The Treviso Civic Museums are organizing for the upcoming reopening (in fact, the Veneto may soon become a yellow zone) with several new features: the first is the opening on Monday (normally a closing day) to meet the needs of the public who cannot visit the museums on Saturdays and Sundays, since the January 14 dpcm imposes the lockout of cultural venues on weekends. Visiting hours will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. In addition, the city administration has established that access to museums will be free for the entire month of February, for everyone, and the first 100 visitors will be gifted with a kit designed especially for the youngest (museum handbag with notebook, pen and personalized booklet), but also a “Musei Civici” branded thought for adults, namely the Bulletin or a mask for personal protection.

The personal protection masks, moreover, are a novelty among museum merchandising products (in fact, visitors will be able to find them for sale in the Santa Caterina and Bailo bookshops for €7). Made by Sartoria Enrico Monti of Preganziol (Treviso) in cloth, washable and reusable, they reproduce details from Antonio Carlini’s watercolors that the artist drew from the frescoes of the Loggia dei Cavalieri: one more way to combine the need for individual protection and the promotion of a peculiarity and characteristic of the Urbs picta.

The reopening will also pass through the series of free educational-cultural meetings Art Mirror of the Soul, organized by the Museums and curated by Sabina Ferro and Ilaria Simeoni, on the theme ofart therapy, or art as an experience endowed with healing power. Four appointments through which it will be possible, through the examination of selected works, to make known but above all “live with care” art as a mirror of our person. The encounters are the result of the contamination between museum didactics and the practice of narrative medicine, from which will emerge the function of Art and its ability to intercept our frailties and make the ordinary a source of wonder, rebirth to take care of and the need to find an answer to the uncertain breath. Art Mirror of the Soul will be an experience of new languages and the rediscovery of the Museum with its works as a decisive part of the changes we are going through and a potential resource to reflect on in order to find ourselves again. Appointment on Feb. 19 and March 5 at the Bailo Museum, and on Feb. 26 and March 12 at St. Catherine’s (for each date, given the limited numbers, that is, maximum number of 10 visitors, there will be two shifts: from 2 to 3:30 p.m., and from 4 to 5:30 p.m. The dates are for adults and children aged 11 to 15).

The Luigi Bailo Museum will also become the protagonist of a dance video clip made by the Puppets Family dance academy, recorded during the lockdown, to help promote and introduce Treviso’s artistic heritage to younger audiences as well. “At this time we felt the absolute need to live our art,” explain the founders of the academy opened in 2008 by Dani Leiban Concepción. “We did not want to spread this passion of ours only within our homes but to make it result in something important, not only for us but for the whole community, also because expressing and communicating is indispensable for our artistic sector. We thought of the Bailo Museum because it is a wonderful place to be promoted and made known to younger people as well.” Finally, at Santa Caterina everything is ready for the next appointment with major exhibitions, set for March 26 with the opening of the temporary exhibition dedicated to the Treviso artist Renato Casaro, entitled Renato Casaro. Cinema’s Last Posterist. Treviso, Rome, Hollywood, which will offer a journey between art and cinema.

“A sign of attention, but also a sign of thanks for all citizens who, by returning to the museum halls, will symbolically want to start again from beauty,” explains Cultural Heritage Councillor Lavinia Colonna Preti. “A sign of rebirth, an invitation to return to nourish one’s spirit with art, beauty, harmony: a form of care that we propose not only now but that has accompanied us since the beginning of our mandate with initiatives appreciated by the public such as ’the Art of being well’ or ’Narrative Medicine.’”

Photo: the St. Catherine Museum

Treviso museums will reopen for free and under the banner of art therapy: works as medicine

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