A project developed by students of IED Firenze’s Master in Museum Education, combining research, experimentation and dialogue with the city.
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Prelude to a Museum to Be: IED Firenze and Museo Sant’Orsola explore new Approaches to Museum Mediation
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13 November 2026
A project developed by students of IED Firenze’s Master in Museum Education, combining research, experimentation and dialogue with the city.
Ahead of its scheduled opening in 2028, Florence’s Museo Sant’Orsola becomes a space for research and experimentation for IED Firenze students. This is the starting point for Prelude to a Museum to Be, a project developed in collaboration with the Museum that explores new approaches to cultural mediation and new ways of connecting the museum, its history and the city.
The project will be presented on Thursday, 19 November, from 12:30 to 2:30 PM, alongside the unveiling of a site-specific installation on the building’s façade, on view until 2 April 2027.
Drawing on the multiple identities and historical layers of Sant’Orsola, the project takes shape through two complementary interventions.
The first transforms the building’s exterior windows into storytelling surfaces, using graphic and textual elements to reveal the history of the site and invite passersby to reflect on the museum’s future.
The second is a museum mediation toolkit, consisting of a manual, flashcards and activity sheets that propose new ways of exploring the space through the body and the five senses.
Prelude to a Museum to Be was conceived and developed by Alejandro Hernandez, Rohan Kakar, Melissa Hanani Palomares Rivera and Swamani Raut, students of the Master in Museum Education, with the collaboration of Daniela Ballotta, Giovanna Cianciarulo and Karen Wider from the Master in Graphic Design for the graphic intervention.
The project was coordinated by Daria Filardo (IED Firenze Art Area Coordinator) and Morgane Lucquet Laforgue (Museo Sant’Orsola), under the supervision of IED lecturers Isabella Ahmadzadeh, Alessio Bertini, Maria Chiara Fantini, Ilaria Gadenz and Edoardo Staffa, and Maria Camilla Palleschi for Museo Sant’Orsola.
19 November 2026 | 12:30–2:30 PM
Installation on view until 2 April 2027
Free admission with mandatory reservation via info@museosantorsola.it
Museo Sant’Orsola, Firenze
Via Guelfa, 21
50129 Firenze, Italy
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