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Ticket: 8 euro
The MIC Foundation was founded in 1908 and represents one of the greatest Museums devoted to ceramics in the world. The MIC preserves about 60.000 ceramic works, 6.000 of them are exhibited in the wide exhibition area, about 10.000 squared metres. The collections show items from all over the world, many pieces belong to very ancient ages like the ceramics from Eastern culture and items from Pre-historical Age, there is an interesting Pre-Columbian collection, a Far East section and an impressive modern and contemporary collection containing pieces by Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Leger, Fontana, Burri and other great masters. The MIC – Foundation represents a center for ceramic culture, it contains a specialized library (more than 60.000 texts), a school department with workshop for children and adult, a restoration deparment. The review “Faenza” is edited at the MIC and sent to several museums and institutions in the world.
“Playing with ceramics” is a workshop that was established by Bruno Munari in 1979. It plays an important educational role by aiming to help children an adults view the objects in the museum and be more aware of them through hands-on activities.
The workshop is thought for everybody: schools, children and adults.
Every Saturday and Sunday afternoon the museum organize workshop and didactic activity for all the family.
Many options are available, including hands-on activities in the “playing with art” laboratory, educational tours of the museum displays, and training courses for adults and teachers.
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| The MIC Foundation was founded in 1908 and represents one of the greatest Museums devoted to ceramics in the world. The MIC preserves about 60.000 ceramic works, 6.000 of them are exhibited in the wide exhibition area, about 10.000 squared metres. The collections show items from all over the world, many pieces belong to very ancient ages like the ceramics from Eastern culture and items from Pre-historical Age, there is an interesting Pre-Columbian collection, a Far East section and an impressive modern and contemporary collection containing pieces by Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Leger, Fontana, Burri and other great masters. The MIC – Foundation represents a center for ceramic culture, it contains a specialized library (more than 60.000 texts), a school department with workshop for children and adult, a restoration deparment. The review “Faenza” is edited at the MIC and sent to several museums and institutions in the world. | |
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FAENZA Viale Baccarini 19 48018 Faenza (RA) |
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WINTER OPENING HOURS: 1st November – 31st March from Tuesday to Friday 10:00-13:30 Saturday, Sunday and holidays 10:00-17:30 SUMMER OPENING HOURS: 1st April – 31st October from Tuesday to Sunday and holidays 10:00-19:00 The Museum is closed: every Monday unless it is a holiday, 1st January, 1st May, 15th August, 25th December. |
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| “Playing with ceramics” is a workshop that was established by Bruno Munari in 1979. It plays an important educational role by aiming to help children an adults view the objects in the museum and be more aware of them through hands-on activities. The workshop is thought for everybody: schools, children and adults. Every Saturday and Sunday afternoon the museum organize workshop and didactic activity for all the family. Many options are available, including hands-on activities in the “playing with art” laboratory, educational tours of the museum displays, and training courses for adults and teachers. |
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MARCO, KILN
THE SECRETS OF TERRACOTTA
To anyone who is passionate about pottery or just curious, we offer a guided tour inside and outside our furnace, that will last about 30-40 minutes. During the visit, we will explain and show, whenever possible, all stages of production of a handmade pottery. The visit will begin on the outside, we will show you how and where the soil is taken to be processed and how it is cooked before being sold. We will unveil the secrets of an ancient art, the working techniques, from the most common to the most ancient and challenging. After this visit, the firm belief that "some water, some soil, and that's it" will disappear forever, and you will understand that in a single terracotta artifact there is the story of a man.
IMPRUNETA, FI
LINDA, MAJOLICA DECORATOR
LOVE POTTERY
I would like to propose a specific course on "love pottery" to those who decide to spend a lovely day together, or would like to do an original gift to the beloved person, to a couple who is getting married or for a wedding anniversary. This art was born in my territory towards the end of the 15th century when, also thanks to the influence of the Renaissance love poems, the lovers and the betrothed used to give their loved ones their portrait drawn on a majolica platter. This is where my workshop starts from. First you will draw the profile of the person you love on a sheet of paper, then you will reproduce it on a ceramic platter, using the ancient technique of dusting. You can customize your artifact adding the features of the person that you are painting, and then a love sentence, a name or a dedication. I will tell you the secrets of this wonderful technique and we will study together all the details of the beautiful colors of majolica. After the cooking, your artifact will be sent home (free of charge for residents in Italy).
CAGLI, PU
LINDA, MAJOLICA DECORATOR
REPRODUCTION OF A FRESCO
What I want to offer is not just a decorative experience, but also a historical and cultural one. With the help and the experience of my friend Agata, you will visit two important historic churches in Cagli. Thanks to her knowledge you will see some medieval fresco. St. Joseph Church with the XIV century fresco representing the “Madonna del Latte”. St. Francis with the fresco of Mello from Gubbio. After a brief but intense visit to the churches, we will reproduce, on a majolica refractory tile, a detail of the fresco saw previously. We will analyze the detail to be drawn through the pouncing technique. We will use the “half dye” for the shades of the ruddiness. You will get to know the main characteristic of the brushes and of the majolica's colors. Until the cooking of the object. The workshop is thought for all those people interested in knowing and experiencing the majolica's art through the culture of the artworks that characterize my precious territory.
CAGLI, PU
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