«Animals from A to Z»: at the Galleria Sabauda from today to April 3, the Royal Museums of Turin are organizing an exhibition dedicated to children for the first time. About forty works from the collection of the Royal Museums are exhibited, some of which are kept in the deposits, and others made available by Palazzo Madama and the Don Bosco natural museum of the Liceo Valsalice in Turin.
Animals are the common thread, with the works that are proposed on the walls at child’s height and accompanied by poetic captions written by the museum staff and a booklet drawn with stories that invite the child to search for the animal in question in each work. playing with words, images, colors and rhyming rhymes.
«An important experiment for us – explains the director of the Royal Museums, Enrica Pagella – for which we have come out of the ‘comfort zone’ of the usual programming of exhibitions designed for a general public. Today our task is to bring the immense artistic heritage preserved in Italian museums to all audiences. An experiment – adds Pagella – also for our staff who thus experimented with new languages and new methods of communication “
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