EXPOniamo anche Noi al Museo d'Arte Cinese ed Etnografico, Parma

Exhibit: The EXPO and Us

The exhibit 2014-2015 "EXPOniamo anche Noi" “The EXPO and Us” of the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography captures the theme of EXPO 2015 Milan: “Feed the Planet, Energy for Life” which reflects the tradition established in this museum and the work that the Missionaries

Goal and Target

The exhibit “the EXPO and Us”, which we present here, follows the multi-cultural approach of our museum, with a privileged target schools and classes.

Theme: Feed the Peoples

Feeding Peoples means giving material food as well as nurturing the culture. With this project, we wish to emphasize the following themes: Nature that nurtures and teaches, nature that needs to be preserved and cared for, the superfluous and waste, the bread of culture ...

Maternity from Mexico

Mother Earth

Praise be to you,
my Lord,
through our Sister,
Mother Earth,
who sustains and governs us,
and who produces various fruit
with coloured flowers
and herbs

S. Francesco d'Assisi

Details

Material Bread and the Bread of Culture

The exhibit 2014-2015, with objects and photos of various countries of the world that the museum has collected in its 113 years of existence, and with educational videos, wants to highlight every visitor to the themes proposed by EXPO 2015. We believe it is visit beneficial to schools and young students

Key Words

Theme of great importance for the whole world: food, environment, sustainable development, solidarity, conviviality, food of the body and mind, the superfluous, recycling and waste ...

Kita, the Good Hunter

A video of an African tale, "Kita, the Good Hunter" which teaches: Una video favola africana, il cui insegnamento è “If you love and care for nature, nature will be your friend and will reward you”. It is an animated and narrated fairytale in a multimedia way, particularly suitable for a pre-school and primary school children

Exhibit Objects

Objects and photographic material from various parts of the world: China, Japan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Rep. Dem. Congo, Sierra Leone, Amazon region of Brazil, Mexico….

The Man who searches for Words

A documentary of 20 min. on Fr. Tonino Melis, who works in putting together Masa dictionary (Chad). Suitable for an adult audience and higher grades of the school, in this documentary the dictionary is literally placed in the typical large "granary" of clay that this culture usually uses to store the grains for its own existence; food and culture.

- Our Response -

Food and Wisdom

20 cards on "Food and Wisdom" concerning our behavior for the proper use of food, protection and conservation of nature, energy, sharing and the use of the created resources. Inspired by the "cord of wisdom" of the Lega people of Congo, this visual path hangs on a rope a series of images and thoughts that illustrate the idea of the individual and collective behavior for a better world.

The Vocabolary of Food

Abundance, Biological, Bread, Culture, Conviviality, Daily, Diet, Eco-sustainable, Fair market, Food education, Food emergency, Food safety, GMO, Hunger, Junk food, Kilometer Zero, Lifestyles, Nothing, Obesity, Pollution, Responsible Consumption, Recycling, Rice, Reading, Sharing, Seasonality, Superfluous, Taste, Too much, Waste, Water, Work

Visiting Hours

The Exhibit "EXPOniamo anche Noi" 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.

Superfluous does not Exist

Did you know?
In some cultures of the world, like the Massa of Chad, the concept of “superfluous” does not exist: there is no word for that... they have nothing to throw away!.