The Sansevero Chapel Museum, the Pio Monte della Misericordia and the Museum Complex of Santa Maria delle Anime del Purgatorio ad Arco become part of the Museum for All Network
Naples, 21 September 2023 – The Museo Cappella Sansevero, the Pio Monte della Misericordia and the Museum Complex of Santa Maria delle Anime del Purgatorio ad Arco join the Museum for All network, thus becoming accessible also to people with intellectual disabilities.
Museo per tutti is a project conceived and created by L'abilità Onlus in collaboration with Fondazione De Agostini, which aims to build specific paths and tools within museums and places of art and culture, to allow the complete enjoyment of works of art by people with intellectual disabilities, both children and adults, promoting access to culture and beauty to anyone who wishes to explore them.
From today, these three museums, symbolic places of Neapolitan culture, will also be able to have a path dedicated to people with intellectual disabilities and their families in a logic of inclusion.
For each of the three art sites, the Museo per tutti team has carried out important work together with the museum staff, leading to the creation of an accessible guide, downloadable for free online and also available on site, which allows the visitor to have an inclusive experience inside the museums. Thanks to the guide, in fact, the visitor with intellectual disabilities can enjoy the visit independently or with his companion (parent, teacher, educator) without stress and together with the other visitors.
For each museum, the guide includes a social guide section, which helps you prepare for your new museum experience and familiarize yourself with the museum spaces. It offers a historical overview of the cultural institution and the monumental complex, as well as a selection of works from the collection described in short descriptions.
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"The Museum Complex of Santa Maria delle Anime del Purgatorio ad Arco, the Museo Cappella Sansevero and the Pio Monte della Misericordia are symbolic places of Naples, linked to its cultural and social history. Opening these museums to people with intellectual disabilities makes us very proud: we are able to make available to this public a piece of the city's heritage that is truly unique, symbolic, anthropological - says Carlo Riva, director of L'abilità Onlus and head of Museo per tutti. - The peculiarity of an intense educational work of the Museo per tutti team and shared in detail with the expertise of the operators of the three places has allowed us to open up new cognitive and emotional experiences for people with intellectual disabilities. Museo per tutti has addressed words, concepts, experiences of the city of Naples that we did not want to be precluded to children and adults with disabilities. Soul and purgatory, allegory and mystery, mercy and Quadreria have become a new vocabulary of words and images for people who will thus be able to enjoy this heritage with ease and autonomy”.
The accessibility work aimed to highlight and highlight the nature of the places and their historical, artistic and anthropological peculiarities. The symbols and allegories that the artistic contents of these museums are loaded with were explained in a simple way, to overcome the difficulties of understanding that this type of public normally has, which made the work carried out particularly challenging. Making people with intellectual disabilities understand key concepts for the nature of the places, such as "mercy", "virtue", "soul" and "purgatory" was important not only for understanding the works of art, but above all to try to give the visitor the emotion and the suggestion of each of these places of art.
The guide is therefore an essential tool, which combines photographs, graphics, drawings and maps that convey to the visitor and his companion a series of practical information with the aim of helping in orientation within the museum and providing important information on the spaces, such as the presence of particularly noisy areas.
With these 3 Neapolitan museums, the Museo per tutti network extends further throughout the country, thus reaching 36 accessible museums and cultural sites, including the Pinacoteca di Brera and the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, the Museo Nazionale Romano and the Museo degli Innocenti in Florence.
Marcella Drago, Secretary General of the De Agostini Foundation, stated: “As a Foundation, we are already present in Naples with some projects to combat educational fragility and facilitate job placement, also in collaboration with other foundations that operate in the area. We are happy to be able to make available to the city, together with L'abilità, also Museo per tutti, a project that makes us particularly proud. In fact, we believe that offering people with intellectual disabilities the opportunity to enjoy works of art and enjoy beauty is as important as eliminating the architectural barriers that limit people with physical disabilities. Our commitment for the future is to make Museo per tutti a recognized and widespread reality throughout the country”.
The guide can be downloaded from the websites of the 3 museum sites and from the Museo per tutti website (www.museopertutti.org). Printed copies can be found at the respective ticket offices, where you can ask for information on how to use them.
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