We are approaching the end of the first part of the second edition of the project addressed to students, Dialogue platform between MNIT and teenagers - Our Museum / Your Museum, and you will soon see the result in the form of an exhibition made (with just a little help from us) by students of grades V-XI from "Gheorghe Şincai" National College. This year, 2023, we focused on the exhibition ,Greeks overseas. Red-figure pottery from Etruria and Magna Graecia and we tried to send them a message - the importance of protecting historical values, to be able to appreciate "the beauty and elegance of some original pieces, as only the great museums of Europe have in their own heritage".
We started with the theoretical part - the curator of the exhibition Cristina Popescu - took the teenagers on a virtual walk through all of Magna Grecia and Etruria, through all those apoikia (home away from home), a rather current theme, considering that migration is still a phenomenon of the day.
The students proposed to "compete" the Greek craftsmen in terms of artistic creation by working diligently in the "workshops", creating paintings based on the Greek art vessels from the exhibition. Others tried their talent as writers and poets. They all got better or worse, but guaranteed they enjoyed the experience and learned a lot about the Greek culture, which greatly influenced the culture of the Western world. They also came to the opening, an experience that introduced them to the world of MNIT specialists, they still have a little until this level of exhibition organization, but they are trying to learn.
The struggle began about how they should be exhibited as expressively as possible, having in the front rooms an exhibition that, they say, "overwhelms us a bit"!
We invite you soon, to appreciate the effort but also the enthusiasm of their involvement, to the best of their ability, in building an exhibition in which:
"Therefore, let's talk about the Greeks again,
So therefore and therefore the ancient Greeks traded at sea''
Moreover, they developed the first great European civilization that deeply marked the world of art, science, politics, Western philosophy...
