Strolling through the beautiful cloisters and courtyard of the Certosa di Pavia you can still feel the slow passing of monks’ life, who have inhabited those spaces for centuries...and passing by one of the countless wooden doors you will discover the Certosa’s secrets.
Category: museums & exhibitions
Tracing Jewish Roots in Poland’s Capital
For centuries, Poland's Jewish community was a vital part of the cultural landscape. Seventy years after the Holocaust, what's left to be seen?
Neues Museum, Berlin: Experiential Conservation
Neues Museum in Berlin is an example of Architectural conservation portraying layers of history in its application.
Lausanne, the Olympic Capital
Lausanne is the Olympic Capital and received this January the 2020 Youth Olympic Games.
The New Bauhaus Museum in Weimar: A Conversational Retrospective
After many years away from the spotlight, the Bauhaus movement is finally receiving some much-deserved attention in its birthplace, the city of Weimar.
Villa Smeraldi, the Peasant and Farming Culture Museum
Today, Bologna and the Emilia Plain is one of the most modern, advanced and industrialized areas in Italy. But the region’s roots are agricultural, a kind of work that has mostly disappeared in the everyday life of the most people. However, no less than fifty years ago it was the base of the economy and...
Today’s Work Is Tomorrow’s Heritage
In Bucharest lie countless examples of tangible and intangible heritage. Some characters from the past worked a great deal to make sure they leave behind a consistent and meaningful legacy, or simply put – heritage. Let us account for their effort differently. Not enriched with the means of Social Media and its participatory empowerment, 18th – 19th centuries socialising meant more awareness and survival.
Layers of History at Golesti (1)
Romanian Arges county hosts the “Golesti Viticulture and Tree Growing” Museum. The axis inside this heritage “filled” 12 hectares museum complex is the Golesti manor. It bears the name of an old boyar family of Wallachia (Romania’s historical southern region) – “Golescu”, informally known as “Golesti”.
More Than Golden Treasures: Heritage layers of Erfurt Synagogue Museum
Peeling off historical layers of one outstanding Synagogue right in the central Germany might lead to some surprising discoveries.
CRAFT ?!
While European art historian textbooks are full of certain definitions and clarifications concerning the theoretical part, Asian art world is still at the stage of struggling the need to find this profound clearness.