TEACHING AT THE NEW AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM

The Museum I imagine is a project devised by the Turin Automobile Museum aimed at promoting awareness of the renovated museum complex in schools before it reopens. Young people were invited to take part, and were asked to think about how to highlight the identity of the Museum and its links with the surrounding area. The intention of the Automobile Museum is, in fact, to return to being an active element and an important physical and cultural venue in the city, and to acquire a teaching role for citizens.

In the context of the project The Museum I imagine a competition with the same title has also been created.
Following a presentation in schools, during which audiences are shown the themes dealt with in the visitor itinerary, the main vehicles in the collection, the new, spectacular installation, the building and the rooms, young people will be able to express freely their expectations with regard to the new Museum before it reopens; they will be able to give their interpretation of it, and study in depth a particular aspect of it by composing texts and drawings with which the school will take part in the competition. The idea behind the project is to try to enhance the identity attributed to the Museum by the young people, and to emphasise the aspects that interest them the most. At the end, the class that presents the best project will win an award, and all the classes who have participated will be able to visit the Museum.

The aim is to offer both teachers and students the chance to give their interpretation of the new museum complex, by means of an experience made up of knowledge and memory, but which will also stimulate creativity and imagination. Students who take part in the project will therefore develop an in-depth knowledge of the new Museum that will allow them to try out a more collaborative and personalized teaching experience.

The project was finished in summer 2011.