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Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza
www.micfaenza.org
The MIC Foundation is a specialized museum, completely devoted to ceramics. A unique experience in the world of museumsIt was founded in 1908 with the purpose to collect, preserve and communicate the ceramic heritage of the area.
The MIC – Foundation represents a centre for ceramic culture. It includes several departments: a specialized library - a school laboratory – a
restoration departments – an historical archives - a photographic laboratory
The collections show items from all over the world, many pieces belong to very ancient ages like the ceramics from Eastern collection and items from Pre-historical Age, there is an interesting Pre-Columbian collection and an impressive modern and contemporary collection
Visitors can admire pieces by Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Leger, Fontana, Burri and other great masters included Italian and international designers.
The new section devoted to 20th century ceramics includes marble and bronze sculptures and pictures
It preserves about 60.000 ceramic works, about 10.000 of them are exhibited in the wide exhibition area of about 12.000 squared metres.
School department
The Giocare con l’arte (Playing with Art) Workshop was established by the artist designer Bruno Munari in 1979.
It has been source of interest and inspiration of several international museums
It plays an important educational role
for students, teachers, visitors:
● game approach working with the clay in the laboratory
● lessons in the exhibition halls
- Diffusion of the “know-how”
- Mailing list to promote the activities
- Blog communication
The Restoration Department offers services to different users:
- restorations
- refreshing courses,
- managing of on-line archives of ceramics
- managing of a wide storage departments
Restoration deparment
The technicians are responsible for preserving the pieces restoring works for the MIC, for other museums and for privates
Possibility to implement the services through the collaboration with other museums, public institution and universities
A review “Faenza”
Published since 1913 without interruption.
It is dedicated to the historical, scientific and didactic study of ceramic art. It is sent to a great number of subscribers, museums, libraries and cultural institutions in Italy and abroad
The International relations
Some examples of institutions that have frequent and deep relation with the MIC
Porcelain Museum in SELB
Victorian and Albert Museum in London
Ashmolean Museum in Oxford
Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg
Petit Palais in Paris
Musée National de Porcelain Adrien Dubouché in LIMOGES
Ceramic Museum in Stoke on Trent
Museo Nacional De Ceramica Gonzalez Marti in Valencia
Victorian and Albert Museum in London
Design Museum in Helsinki
Porcellain Museum in Herend
Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagabria
Museum of Applied arts in Belgrade
National Museum of Montenegro
National Museum of Azulejo in Lisbon
National Museum of Slovenia in Lubiana …………………..and many others
creating an active role of the MIC in the world of ceramics
promoting the activities and the cultural projects
sharing managing experiences
Aims of the communication
web-site each year about 60.00 contacts
newsletter 1.200 contacts
e-mail address 10.000 contacts
The web-site
The Institute for the preservation of the Cultural Heritage, Istituto Beni Culturali dell’Emilia Romagna, gave the MIC the status of Quality Museum. It allows the Museum a wide diffusion inside the network of high quality museum for the managing and the services to the public.
Consideration about the model
The model leads to analyze the present situation inside the museum concerning the communication with a critical attitude
Strength of the MIC:
-long history of relation
-Several active department
- a great ceramic patrimony, unique in the world
Weakness of the MIC:
- Lack of a specific strategy
-Virtual strategies for didactic purposes (e-learning)
-Continuative relations with media
-Contact with tour operators and tourists