Art education for museums
Museum educator, museum mediator, art operator, collaborator for exhibition events
Characteristics of the course of study
The course in Art Education for Museums is a training program that provides students with all the knowledge and skills necessary to develop meaningful, effective, and coherent materials, mediations, and tools (guided tours, workshops and artistic pathways, art experiences, educational materials such as captions and gallery texts) to bring a diverse audience closer to artistic languages, raising awareness and educating them about art through traditional or multimedia approaches, within museums, exhibitions, galleries, and cultural events.
The course is primarily structured around four key areas: art history, to understand and contextualize all possible cultural heritage; multimedia, to offer a digital perspective in art mediation; pedagogy, to investigate educational approaches aimed at fostering a meaningful and educational relationship between the audience and the artwork; and finally, communication, through the use of modern expressive and digital languages, as well as gestural knowledge and public speaking skills.
I Year
- Cultural anthropology (6 CFA)
- Cultural and environmental goods (6 CFA)
- Communication and enhancement of museum collections (8 CFA)
- Museum Teaching I (4 CFA)
- Fundamentals of computer science (4 CFA)
- English for artistic communication I (4 CFA)
- Museology and use of exhibition systems I (6 CFA)
- Art pedagogy and didactics I (6 CFA)
- History of ancient art (6 CFA)
- Medieval Art History (6 CFA)
- Workshop - Museum staging (2 CFA) *
II Year
- Museum Education II (4 CFA)
- Elements of iconology and iconography (6 CFA)
- Ergonomics of exhibitions (6 CFA)
- English for artistic communication II (6 CFA)
- Multimediality for cultural heritage I (4 CFA)
- Art pedagogy and didactics II (6 CFA)
- Multimedia programming (6 CFA)
- Digital image processing (4 CFA) *
- History of modern art (6 CFA)
- Digital applications for art (6 CFA)
- Workshop - Expressive techniques (2 CFA) *
- Work placement activity (6 CFA)
III Year
- Teaching of artistic languages (6 CFA)
- Museum Education III (4 CFA)
- Visual Arts Aesthetics (6 CFA)
- Workshop - Communication methods and techniques (2 CFA) *
- Multimediality for cultural heritage II (6 CFA)
- Art pedagogy and didactics III (6 CFA)
- Multimedia communication (8 CFA)
- Contemporary art History (6 CFA)
- Contemporary methodologies and techniques (6 CFA)
- Work placement activity (6 CFA)
- Final test (6 CFA)
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Professors
- Alessandro Polo
- Alessia Marsigalia
- Angelo Vigo
- Anna Giunchi
- Anna Ramera
- Barbara Scaroni
- Camilla Gualina
- Damiana Gatti
- Elena Lucchesi Ragni
- Federico Stefanelli
- Fiorenzo Fisogni
- Francesca Medici
- Giorgio Azzoni
- Jonathan Nix
- Lorenza Roverato
- Mara Florian
- Marisa Paderni
- Massimiliano Marano
- Maurizio Rinaldi
- Milena Cordioli
- Paolo Bonini
- Paolo Sacchini
- Raúl Zecca Castel
- Riccardo Bartoletti
- Simone Lombardi
- Virtus Maria Zallot
Course Goals
The objective of the academic degree course in Art Education for Museums is to train qualified and competent professionals to perform a professional activity centered around the broad concept of "art mediation," which requires specific and interdisciplinary training, where a solid cultural, historical-artistic, and pedagogical-didactic preparation supports a strong practical and operational component. Over the three years of study, students develop skills and abilities with the goal of designing and implementing art education projects, expressiveness, and creativity enhancement, and, of course, conducting all those activities of mediation and introduction to art aimed at different types of audiences, identifying the most appropriate methodologies each time.
Job perspectives
Museum educator, museum mediator, art operator, collaborator for exhibition events
The profile emerging from the Art Education for Museums course is that of a professional capable of designing and setting up educational spaces and conducting educational workshops aimed at bringing people closer to art and disseminating artistic and cultural heritage related to both permanent collections and temporary thematic exhibitions. This professional is also able to structure and present cultural and tourist itineraries (museum guide and escort) or work in teams with other figures in institutional networks, including those based on the interaction between public bodies and private enterprises. This professional figure will find employment opportunities within the extensive museum network throughout Italy.
