Monte Amiata mining museum

I LUOGHI DEL MERCURIO / THE PLACES OF MERCURY

Abbadia San Salvatore, 2016

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The multimedia museum was created in the space of a former mechanical workshop inside the Mining Park-Museum at Abbadia San Salvatore. Mine, Cinnabar, Mercury, Amiata: these words, which are placed at the beginning of the path, enclose a network of stories connected to the narrow passages in the mountain. They Read More

Statue of the Archangel Michael

IL SENTIERO DELL’ANGELO / THE ANGEL’S PATH

Monte Sant'Angelo, 2015

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This museum is dedicated to the cult of Archangel Michael and it was designed as an initiation journey that draws the visitor to the mysteries coming from the ancient tradition of pilgrimage to the sacred sites bound to the Archangel Michael. A sequence of environments progressively introduces the audience to Read More

Multimedia installation about the Viscontis

FINESTRE VISCONTEE / WINDOWS ON THE VISCONTIS

Belgioioso, 2015

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As the first core of the museum dedicated to the Visconti family, this environment among the restored walls of Belgioioso Castle features two main moments. The installations – a well and two windows – intrigue the visitor through landscapes and stories about the castle emerging from the past, and being Read More

Installation with camera for museum dedicated to Molise earthquake

PAESAGGIO IN MOVIMENTO / MOVING LANDSCAPE

San Giuliano di Puglia, 2015

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The Multimedia Museum for Earthquake Memory is dedicated to the memory of the victims of the earthquake that took place in Molise on October 31, 2002, and to the children who lost their lives in it. This project aims at informing people about biodiversity and landscape through experiential, creative, and Read More

Installation for the Archaeological and Land Museum in Mamoiada

MATER

MATER, Archaeological and Land Museum, develops in a multimedia and interactive path over three thematic rooms. The first room is dedicated to the history of the Mamoiada area, to its geography and its invisible dimension, i.e., to the hidden, unknown aspects of a land that welcomed different peoples. The room Read More

Capitolium - proiezione di una processione notturna

CAPITOLIUM

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In the Eastern cell of the Capitolium, inside the Archaeological Park in Brescia, Studio Azzurro created a multimedia environment with strong theatrical reminiscences. An animated model is the main attraction at the centre of the room. Thanks to its interactive margins, it introduces the visitor to the knowledge and the Read More

Installazione multimediale al MAST

MAST

Bologna, 2013

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The MAST Foundation is an international philanthropic and cultural institution dealing with art, technology and innovation. Studio Azzurro created four video installations in its exhibition path. The first environment welcomes the visitors by presenting MAST core topics. A row of wide screens creates a wall of images and moving objects, Read More

Installation at the International Shoe Museum by Studio Azzurro

LA STANZA DELLA DUCHESSA / THE DUCHESS’S ROOM

Vigevano, 2011

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Studio Azzurro decided to use shoes to tell a story at the International Shoe Museum in Vigevano. This story begins with the slipper, the most representative shoe model of the area. According to popular knowledge, this shoe was worn, or maybe even created, by Beatrice d’Este, Duchess of Milan and Read More

Dancers at San Carlo Theatre in Naples

MEMUS

Napoli, 2011

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Studio Azzurro accepted the challenge coming from MEMUS, the Museum and Historical Archive from Naples’ San Carlo Theatre, thus revisiting and reinterpreting six operas staged for theatre by as many world-famous contemporary artists. This multimedia exhibition recounts a story and places the visitor in an original, immersive situation where s/he Read More

Video installation with flames dedicated to Vibo Valentia area

VALENTIA SENSIBILE / SENSITIVE VALENTIA

Vibo Valentia, 2011

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Valentia Sensibile is a project aiming at creating appreciation for the area of Vibo Valentia, as well as a promotion of its cultural identity. Its goal is to tell the memory of places while connecting people, art, and multimedia. Studio Azzurro designed and created The Tales of the Horizons and Read More

Interactive table at the Pottery Museum

MUSEO DELLA CERAMICA / POTTERY MUSEUM

Mondovì, 2010

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Over six hundred pottery works are on display at the museum in Mondovì, while further two thousand items are archived in its storage rooms. In the nineteenth century and in the first half of the twentieth, the industrial production of pottery was a strong feature of the culture and economy Read More

Museum of Water - blue flag with a projection

MUSEO DELL’ACQUA DI SIENA / SIENA MUSEUM OF WATER

Siena, 2010

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Museo dell’Acqua tells the story of Siena through the fascinating hidden world of the “bottini”, an underground system designed to carry water to the city’s historical fountains. In order to explain why Siena is structured this way and why its relationship with water is of the essence, we used the Read More

Drawing of a helicopter from the former mental hospital

OLTRE IL GIARDINO / BEYOND THE GARDEN

Trieste, 2009

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Franco Basaglia’s work and the utopia that was fulfilled as mental hospitals were shut down are key historical facts that can appeal to younger generations. In Trieste, Basaglia’s heritage generated events and shaped a net of health services. This bears witness to the contemporary relevance of the events of the Read More

Sound installation at the former mental hospital in Rome

MUSEO LABORATORIO DELLA MENTE / THE MIND’S MUSEUM AND WORKSHOP

Rome, 2008

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The Mind’s Museum and Workshop is located among the walls of the former mental hospital of Santa Maria della Pietà, in Rome. It offers a journey into mental illness and into the segregation it used to cause by going over the history of Rome mental hospital from its foundation to Read More

Installation at Carrara Marble Museum with projection on marble powder

MUSEO CIVICO DEL MARMO DI CARRARA / CIVIC MUSEUM OF CARRARA MARBLE

Carrara, 2008

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An important renovation and reorganization work of the exhibition rooms of the Museum of Carrara Marble took place in 2008. Besides artwork, archaeological findings from the quarry, and tools for the extraction and processing of marble, a new multimedia narrative path was born to highlight the city’s historical memory. “We Read More

Ombra di un soldato armato a Forte Belvedere Gschwent

LA FORTEZZA DELLE EMOZIONI / THE FORTRESS OF EMOTIONS

Lavarone, 2008

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The Fortress of Emotions aims at preserving the heritage of the World War I memories kept within the walls of Forte Belvedere Gschwent. The path includes three sensitive environments: The Animated Model, The Sentries, and The Howitzers of Sounds. Through a simple gesture, The Animated Model allows you to retrieve Read More

Leggio interattivo sulle Alpi Marittime all’interno del Forte di Vinadio

MONTAGNA IN MOVIMENTO / MOVING MOUNTAIN

Vinadio, 2007

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The path on the Maritime Alps inside Forte di Vinadio is less to contemplate than to live. Spaces become narrative, containers of collective experiences in which tales proceed on more levels: the educational and teaching component of the museum mingles with the evocative and emotional one, universal history and personal Read More

Multimedia installation at the Formigine Castle

IL CASTELLO DI FORMIGINE / THE FORMIGINE CASTLE

Formigine, 2007

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The museum of Formigine Castle is not just about architectural appreciation. Thanks to multimedia installations, it turns into a living entity that comes back to life through the layering of stories and emotions. Each time someone visits the castle, new identities of it are shaped, making it a living and Read More

Interactive installation inside the museum dedicated to miners who worked at Pozzo Gal

MUSEO MULTIMEDIALE DELLA MINIERA DI POZZO GAL / MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM AT POZZO GAL MINE

Arbus, 2006

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The multimedia museum of Pozzo Gal mine is dedicated to the men who worked here in the first half of the twentieth century, to their families and their histories. It includes testimonies and objects donated to the museum, which represent the most personal and intimate belongings from the miners. The Read More

Projection of a weel from a former wool mill

LA FABBRICA DELLA RUOTA / THE WHEEL WORKS

Pray, 2005

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The exhibition path at Fabbrica della ruota (Wheel Works), a former wool mill now turned museum, is a part of the eco-museum of the Italian province of Biella and the site for the Textile Industry Documentation Centre. It was born on the occasion of an exhibition called On the Woollen Read More

Ocean liners, figures watching the sea

TRANSATLANTICI / LINERS

Genoa, 2004

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Commissioned for the election of Genoa as European Cultural Capital, this exhibition was designed as a movie developing within the spaces of the Galata Sea Museum in order to bring the extraordinary history of ocean liners back to life. A movie in three stages that becomes a scenario, a narration, Read More

Alfredo d'Andrade

MUSEO-CENTRO STUDI ALFREDO D’ANDRADE / ALFREDO D’ANDRADE MUSEUM AND STUDY CENTRE

Pavone Canavese, 2003

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Designed for the museum dedicated to Alfredo d’Andrade, an architect and restorer from the late nineteenth century, this exhibition includes four installations exploring the themes of restoration, archiving, travelling, and the relationships between d’Andrade and his contemporaries. The first installation is made of four interactive bookrests, each equipped with a Read More

Una mano tocca un portafoto e un oggetto di metallo appartenuti a Trilussa

LA STANZA DI TRILUSSA / TRILUSSA’S ROOM

Rome, 2002

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The permanent collection of Museo di Roma in Trastevere shows popular everyday life in Rome between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, filtering it through the eyes of the artists that represented it. It includes collections of paintings, prints, drawings and watercolours that are displayed in rotation. In a room of Read More

Museum of the Resistance in Fosdinovo

MUSEO AUDIOVISIVO DELLA RESISTENZA / AUDIO-VISUAL MUSEUM OF THE RESISTENZA MOVEMENT

Fosdinovo, 2000

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This museum in Fosdinovo was created in order to offer a new vision of the Resistenza (Italian wartime resistance movement), and in particular to approach a younger audience. We chose to speak an emotional language that does not only tell a story, but also conveys memory by using large-scale projections Read More

Interactive map of Lucca, virtual museum Baluardo

BALUARDO

Lucca, 1999

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As the first museum experience for Studio Azzurro, Lucca’s virtual museum explores the memory of the city through a journey in four stages that match four corresponding moments in memory, i.e., evoking, narrating, informing, and documenting. The introductory hall features footage from cameras scattered around the city that show the Read More