MUSEUMS GADGETS AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THINKING OF MUSEUM COMMUNICATION IN A NEW WAY

Museums gadgets and communication. Which is relationship among these three words?
Before answering this question, I want to tell you what happened to me when I was asked: how should a museum communicate today?
One day I was asked this question, and I answered by talking about social media and how a museum today has a lot of new instruments to communicate quickly with different types of visitors.
The following day I entered a museum, and when I arrived at the bookshop I found neither a pencil displaying the museum’s logo. In that moment I thought again about the question I was asked the previous day, and that a good museum communication consists also of gadgets and not only of posts to be published on social media.

A good museum, which wants to communicate effectively with visitors, is recognizable also by items for sale at the bookshop.
In this post you’ll find three reasons why museums gadgets can improve museum communication.

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ART AT THE CINEMA ON DVD: 5 MOVIES YOU MUST SEE AND NOW YOU CAN FIND ON DVD

Do you like art at the cinema but films are on at the cinema too little time?
Don’t worry, it’s a common problem, and I’ve recently missed out many opportunities to watch movies dedicated to art and artists, too.

So, how can you make up these movies to watch them in the comfort of your own home? And which are the latest DVD releases you must see?
You’ll find the answer to these questions in this post, where you can find also a list of 3 movies I watched and I recommend to you 🙂

Art at the cinema on DVD

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HOW TO DECORATE WITH PAINTINGS: SUGGESTIONS AND MISTAKES YOU SHOULDN’T MAKE

How to decorate with paintings and give more personality to rooms of your home or your office?
To answer this question you need to consider many elements, because there are endless possibilities, and it’s easy to block in front of banal choices and leave everything halfway through.

In this post you’ll find some useful advice to help you put your idea into practice.

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ORIGINAL MUGS MADE FOR THOSE WHO LOVE ART AND GREAT MASTERPIECES

Which are the original mugs for art lovers?
Obviously, mugs reproducing great masterpieces of art which can make you start the day in style, on all counts.

If it’s true that a good beginning bodes well, then you must start with a bang and, in my opinion, there’s nothing better than admiring a great masterpiece. In this post I gathered some ideas about the most beautiful mugs on sale, a sort of buyers’ guide useful in making your breakfast more beautiful or to give them as a gift to an art lover, like you and me.

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ArteFiera: Disegni di Fausto Melotti – courtesy Galleria Tonelli, Milano.

I am convinced, and those who have been following me for a while now have understood this, that it is possible to bring beauty and poetry into our lives through the objects we surround ourselves with every day.

Collecting art is not a luxury reserved for billionaires with frescoed villas and private galleries. Of course, not all of us can afford a Picasso above the fireplace, but building a small collection of authentic and meaningful art is possible for anyone with a little curiosity and strategy.

HOW TO BECOME A SMALL COLLECTOR

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