Articles tagged with: museums
Gucci Museum’s Creative Kids
Florence’s Museo Gucci launches a childrens’ activity program (in Italian) called CreaKids. Art and creativity, exploration of the city and of legends are at the base of three thematic workshops offered by the fashion brand’s museum in Florence.
Did you know that Florence has a planetarium?
It’s called La Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica di Firenze e il Planetario and it’s Florence’s planetarium; the institute has been around since the 80s while the planetarium (of the ZEISS ZKP2 type, apparently) opened in 2002.
The 8 meter diameter cupola allows kids and adults to see the night sky in simulation. While activity concentrates on …
Florence museums and activities for kids
I don’t have kids (actually, I try to avoid them as much as possible), so I may not be the number one authority on tips on what to do with children in Italy (or anywhere else for that matter), or what museums in Florence are kid-friendly. Luckily, I have a regular columnist – Laura de …
The Ferragamo Museum in Florence: one of 100 places every woman should go in Italy
ArtTrav is pleased to be listed as a resource in the second edition of Susan Van Allen’s book 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go, available in paperback or kindle editions. The author delights us with the following guest post on a museum in Florence that may appeal very much to women, but …
Museums in Basel: Modern Art, Architecture and Design
Swiss-born, Tuscan resident Katja Meier delights us with a modern take on Basel in this guest post… just in time for Art Basel (June 14-17, 2012)
In the early 90s I spent a year working at two of Basel’s theaters. These were my first jobs after graduating from Zurich University of the Arts, and whenever I …
A cultural weekend in London, Bloomsbury
This is a guest post from Jude Harrison, who works and enjoys hanging out in the Bloombsbury area of London and thus offered to tell us about some of his idiosyncratic favourites in the big museums of that great city… just in time for the Diamond Jubilee and the upcoming London Summer Olympics!
London is one …
Andrea Commodi and Michelangelo – an exhibit at Casa Buonarroti
Present-day Michelangelo fans will appreciate this unusual opportunity to get to know one of Michelangelo’s past admirers: artist Andrea Commodi (1560 – 1638). The museum of Casa Buonarroti in Florence is hosting an exhibit this summer (until August 31 2012) that puts works by Commodi from the Uffizi’s drawing collection (Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe) alongside …
Fondation Maeght: 60s positivism and perfect integration of art and architecture
There is a place in which art and architecture are perfectly integrated, in aesthetic style and function, creating a sensation that is both calming and exciting at the same time. The Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence (Southern France, near Nice) is my all-time favourite museum.
It must have been incredible to live in the midst of the …
Prato’s textile museum wants you to touch their exhibit!
Prato’s textile museum (Museo del Tessuto) says ‘hello’ to contemporary art and modern museum practise with the exhibit ‘Il Tessuto è Tutto‘ (Fabric is Everything). With this exhibit, that opened in March 2012, the museum broke in a new contemporary space that is over 1000 square meters large – 5 times the previous area dedicated …
Palazzo Davanzati for Italian kids
The Italian youth magazine Focus Junior and the MIBAC (ministry for the arts) have come up with an interesting collaboration to promote twelve lesser-known museums in Italy, amonst them the Palazzo Davanzati in Florence for the month of February 2012. In Focus Junior magazine this month there’s a detachable fold-out map and guide to the …
Foursquare and museums: Palazzo Strozzi first in Florence
I’m thrilled to break some insider news in the field of social media and museums (two of my favourite things). Palazzo Strozzi is the first museum in Florence to be officially on Foursquare, and the only one in Italy to currently reward users with a special. The very first Italian museum to claim its venue …
Museums in Barcelona
Wherever I go, I tend to visit a lot of museums. It’s a good thing that Barcelona has a museum discount card called “Articket“ that costs 22 euros and gets you into 7 museums! I absolutely recommend this card to any visitor to Barcelona: if you go to only two or three of these, you …
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