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THE MUSEUM
Permanent Exhibition
The permanent exhibition designed after the reopening of the museum
is an anthological presentation of the Burcardo collections. The exhibition spaces, in
fact, are too small to exhibit the whole collections properly. Therefore, the museum was
thought as a place where temporary exhibitions will present documents and objects related
to a personality, a period or a particular aspect of theatre and performing arts.
The Burcardo Library owns collections of great artistic and historical value, which are
not supposed to stay locked into drawers. During the last years, researchers have always
had free access to the collections, but the increasing demand of fruition from the largest
audience that presently crowds museums and galleries cannot be ignored. The idea of museum
has changed; museums are more and more living institutions producing cultural events,
rather than showcases for precious memories of the past. Visitors now ask for new
initiatives related to the exhibitions, like seminars, conferences, educational
programmes, readings, performances and concerts.
With this permanent exhibition, the Burcardo tries to attract an audience larger than the
public made of theatre lovers, who already know and appreciate its collections. We try to
show some examples of the fine and meaningful documents that have accompanied and
illustrated theatre performances for centuries, and have then become sources of
inspiration for high-level artists. Visitors will look at the documents from different
point of views, connecting their own experiences to the artistic suggestiveness of the
past, for a better understanding of performing arts as a living matter, always renewing
it, though feeding into its millennial history.
 THE MUSEUM
TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS
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