L'Audace Progetto continua .... al Museo d'Arte Cinese ed Etnografico, Parma

Exhibit: The Daring Project continues ...

With the inauguration of the renewed museum, the Xaverian missionaries hold the exhibit entitled "The Daring Project continues ...". The museum highlights the desire to be opened to the knowledge of cultures and peoples we approached. Over the decades, the Xaverians have revealed the awe and wonder, sometimes decidedly respectful and sympathetic, other times very critical, caused by the encounter with the various cultures and civilizations.

Goal and Target

Exhibit 2012 entitled "L'Audace Progetto continua..." (The Daring Project continues ...) opens the new restructuring of the museum of the Xaverian missionaries. The exhibit wants to celebrate the origins and history of the museum and the contribution of the missionaries for the world's cultures.
Conforti is an historical figure for Parma and its province to be appreciated for his leadership as a public figure for its city and the entire world.
A teaching exhibit for schools and classes.

Guido M. Conforti - Bishop of Parma

Founder of Missionaries and of a Museum

In the first rules for his future missionaries, Conforti writes: "As you come into the various territories of your missions, please send to the Mother house some cultural elements of ethnology and art."
This is the first mention of the founding of a museum. Together with the founding of the Xaverian missionaries (1895) and their mission to China (1898), it forms "the Daring Project" dreamed by Guido M. Conforti.
His greatest contribution? He was able to convince his missionaries of the cultural value of this idea, and its impact on everyone who worked in China.

Details

Missionaries and Museum

The history of the Xaverian family and the history of the museum are intertwined, and nurture each other, in order to hold both the commitment to religious education as well as to highlight elegantly the cultural artifacts of peoples. The founding of a Missionary institute and of the Museum constitute what Conforti felt as "the Daring Project."

Video - The Daring Project

A brief movie on "the Daring Project" dreamed by the founder Guido M. Conforti, which shows the Xaverian missionaries at work in the realm of culture, meeting with people, establishing contacts with realities diverse and unknown. "We are ... that intial Daring Project" for the missionaries still flesh-out the initial dream.

The Harmony of the Circle

A display of large photos with the theme of “circle-harmony”, presenting objects from various cultures represented in the museum. The circle, in fact, shows harmony and beauty across all cultures.

The Earth is for all peoples

A series of 26 illustrated double-sided tiles with photos of the great religions, cultural expressions of the various peoples of the earth, their rights and duties as citizens of the earth: work, education, health, food, peace, etc...

Life-size silhouettes of Xaverians

The first exhibit is inspired by the origins and history of the museum. A series of life-size silhouettes of some Xaverians (the Founder and the most deserving of the fortunes of the museum), symbols of all past and present missionaries, old and young, Italians and foreigners, who over the course of more than a century believed in the daring project.

- No barriers and no borders -

Make of the world a Single Family

A missionary institute comes from Christ’s mandate: “Go into all the world ... proclaim the Gospel to all.” The first and natural primal religious appearance, however, merges and branches into the human and cultural commitment with ease. Thus, universality and global awareness are the DNA of a missionary institute. Conforti expressed it, then, with a very simple yet dated slogan: "Make of the world a single family." The world with no barriers and no borders.

Conforti: A Patron Saint for Museums?

The proclamation of the holiness of Msgr. Guido Conforti, on October 23, 2011, has taken on a special meaning during the restructuring of the museum. Saint Guido Conforti, in fact, was both founder of the Xaverian Missionaries, and also of the Museum. So, why the excitement for the proclamation of his holiness? Well, if someone would like to think that even museums need a patron saint, then the candidacy of Conforti would be most suitable

Visiting Hours

The Exhibit "L'Audace Progetto continua ..." is open from Tuesday to Saturday, from 9.00am to 2.00pm, for the school year.

Tel. 0521-257.337
mail@museocineseparma.org

Guided School Tours

Your visit will be guided. The museum space is designed for groups of about 20 people (or less), so as to help appreciate and see the exhibits. The same opening hours of the Museum.
Please call 0521-257.337.

Multi-visione on China

Do not miss it!
The descent of the ramp is accompanied by images that shows ancient and current China, its arts, landscapes and people of past and present of this great nation.

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