The first two months of opening of the Rodari museum in Omegna had over 1,500 visitors. Alberto Poletti, the director of the Fantasia park, draws up an initial assessment. “We are happy because the museum has proved to be an extraordinary resource for us and for the city – he says -. We did not expect many visits considering that it is the winter period and we are at the beginning. What comforts us are the data on the origin of visitors: 28% from Omegnesi, 18% from Vco and Novara and the remaining 54% came from other provinces and regions. It means that in many cases they are people, sometimes groups, who have come on purpose to discover Rodari’s work ».
There were also visitors from Marche, Lazio, Puglia and abroad (Germany and Switzerland).
“This interactive structure – adds Poletti – has interested not only children and adults in love with Rodari, but has been found” therapeutic “by groups that have found that this immersive museum is suitable for children with certain types of disabilities”. Culture is wealth: in every sense. Those who come to visit the museum – as we have seen in recent days with a group of Bolognese teachers – stop to visit the city, eat in restaurants and shop in shops.
“A future at the Faro games”
Developing this area more and more is the dear topic the councilor for Culture Sara Rubinelli who the other day visited the Nuova Faro toy collection for which a future museum is dreamed of.
“We don’t have to invent anything, but simply enhance what we have in Omegna – says Rubinelli -. Investing in culture brings benefits in terms of personal growth, but also economic. The Rodari museum and, one day, the one with the immense material of the Faro are treasures in this sense. The toy museum, which I hope will materialize soon, completes the path of the city of creativity on which we have been working for years “.