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International Museum Day 2024

Posted on 06/06/2024

FROM CHILHOOD TO YOUTH. THE JOY OF SEEING OUR TEAM MEMBERS GROW

Years ago, at the very beginning of Patrimonio para Jovenes, some families joined our activities with their children and these children are not children anymore.

Currently, they are an important part of our content creation team. As an example, in the photo you can see Carlos Odériz 10 years ago.

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Carlos is now a Psychology student. At the end of 2023 he was chosen as our association’s representative to prepare the event of International Museum Day 

He was enthusiastic about the proposal and look where he is now!

   Museums for Education and Research

This was the motto for 2024. Our proposal: under a watchful eye, museums are an ideal place to delve into any area of knowledge in which one is interested.

So, we proposed to Carlos that he analyse the permanent exhibition and, from the perspective of his interests as a Psychology student, choose a series of artworks to analyse character traits and themes.

He had been given very few guidelines. He had a lot of freedom to choose and organize his speech. Among the guidelines: that his presentation didn’t last more than 40 minutes, that he did something very personal, that his presentation and the moment created, were something unique. That he created an experience. “Data is forgotten, stories remain” was our mantra.

Carlos dispensed with the works in which faces are a prototype and took the visitors up to the second floor, which is an area of the museum with beautiful drawings, however, it is often forgotten by public.

Among the chosen works, this image that is seen above and the following one are of the actress Vera Vergani.

Vera Vergani

Some information about her is available in Spanish on Gustavo de Maeztu Museum website.

Carlos also talked about different self-portraits of Maeztu, and here you can see one of them.

Autorretrato de Gustavo de Maeztu

    A DAY TO REMEMBER

It was a lovely morning, full of good moments. Many people from Estella and Pamplona attended, as well as Carlos’s friends and family. Some people were visiting this museum for the first time and for us it was a great joy to be the cause of this discovery.

Público durante la visita en el Día Internacional de los Museos

Everybody applauded a lot at the end and many stayed asking Carlos questions and discussing ideas that arose around his presentation. Everything that a face, a gesture, a look or any other element of body language shows may spark new conversations.

Iniciio de la visita

For Carlos this was a very personal experience, which allowed him to create an affective bond with the portraits he had chosen. This was also the case of the experience lived by the students from Soria and their activity Proyecto Vozmediano. You can read about it in Spanish here.

We are very happy about this experience and we hope to keep enjoying this and other museums for many years to come.

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Folklore and fashion

Posted on 11/09/2017

JUSTE BY CHANCE

It was during the last spring when I came across an article at the magazine “Nuestro Tiempo”. Two students (actually graduates) from the architecture school, were starting a little business of bag design.

I kept in touch with them and made them a proposal.

What about designing with cultural heritage as inspiration? A good start is the Renaissance architecture found in a very little and hidden village: Morón de Almazán. Inspiration can be found not only on the stones of its amazing square but on the typical costumes of its Museum.

      FROM TRADITION TO INNOVATION

It was the goal. To create style and contemporary fashion but looking back to the origins in ancient dresses, ceremonies, music and festivals.

The girls from the BeiA firm would create new models of bags with this inspiration. First, they had to travel and visit the village and its museum, look at everything with care, time and even tenderness.

 

Beatriz and Ainhoa visited the museum guided by Rogelio Peña, the person in charge of this little but great museum. They had explanations about traditions, social classes and different ceremonies and roles.

Then they came back to Pamplona, and started designing

THE DATE ARRIVES

When summer is almost over, the day arrived. It was September 2nd.

Beatriz, Ainhoa and me were all excited. What was going on?

How many people would come? At the near village of Almazán there was a festival, with a “corrida de toros” included.

We had the doubt, perhaps nobody would come? After the hard work during the summer, what was going to happen?

And great! The museum was full of people. The old people from the village fell in love with their culture and their heritage, people from the city of Soria, (capital of the province) and more: people from Bilbao, Logroño and other surrounding cities. People who were traveling as tourist around this area.

Beatriz and Ainhoa presented the models and then we enjoyed a dinner with typical products from Navarra, the region from which Bea and Ainhoa come from

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Our gratitude to the team in charge of the Soria Museum, to the people in charge of the cultural area of the  “Diputación of Soria”Yolanda Martínez  and Milagros Tajahuerce  the mayor of Moron de Almazan.

 

Before finishing this post I’d like to encourage you to visit the Museum of Moron de Almazan as well as the old Medinaceli. Check out the web (The one of the museum is not available for mobile phones).

See you .