Minecraft Museum Adventure. Viaggio nel mondo della figurina

25.11.22 -
26.02.23

The Museo della Figurina becomes a video game

The Museo della Figurina becomes a video game, to play in Palazzo Santa Margherita or remotely. Accompanying the virtual experience, an exhibition telling the story of Minecraft’s forerunners 

Exhibition venue

Museo della Figurina
Curated by Francesca Fontana and Lorenzo Respi, in partnership with FEM Future Education Modena
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The Museo della Figurina becomes a video game, to play in Palazzo Santa Margherita or remotely. Accompanying the virtual experience, an exhibition telling the story of Minecraft’s forerunners 

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Address

Museo della Figurina:
Palazzo Santa Margherita

Opening times

Wednesday - Friday: 11am-1pm, 4-7pm;  
Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays: 11am-7pm 

Entry

full price € 6 / concessions € 4 (Vivaticket circuit) 

Free entry: every Wednesday 

Guided tours: every Saturday, 5 pm 

Information

biglietteria@fmav.org | www.fmav.org 
Tel. during exhibition hours: Palazzo Santa Margherita 0592032919 


Press office

Santa Nastro
s.nastro@fmav.org press@fmav.org
+39 3201122513 

Minecraft is considered a useful learning tool for developing creativity, logic, computational thinking and problem-solving skills. An enormous community of people has grown up around the game, teaming up to complete challenges or share experiences, making them into what could be thought of as a sort of extremely creative social network.  

“The title says it all: the game is all about mining and crafting.The game is entirely based on pixels, making it surprisingly simple. It’s a world of “cubes” in which everything is made up of equal-sized 3D blocks, of different colours depending on what they represent, to be either destroyed or used as a building material.” In Minecraft,” the curators explain, “you can put your skills to the test by building and bringing worlds to life that can be shown to the online communityIt’s an interactive game where you can build to your heart’s content and express yourself freely, guided by your intuition, imagination and creativity. 

Hence, the link with the world of picture cards: through the collections and materials housed in the
Museo dellaFigurina – connected to the concept of edutainment, since the aim of picture cards was to teach something in a fun way – a project has been developed with Future Education Modena to build a Minecraft (Java Edition) version of the museum, expanding and integrating the analogue museum experience through the video game. Users (whether experts or beginners) will therefore be able to interact with the collection through stations inside the museum or remotely, and have fun with a series of games, ranging from parkour to logic, which gradually get more difficult.It will be a real escape room containing challenges, puzzles and tests on the exhibition topics which will be updated for each new exhibition.  

Furthermore, the Museo dellaFigurina will host an exhibition put together especially for the occasion, revolving around the main themes of the game, from exploration to crafting, through biomes, plants and animals, to monsters and fiery worlds. In every section, the Minecraft cards will be placed alongside the iconography of late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century picture cards. A section curated together with an expert pedagogue will instead be dedicated to the “forerunners” of Minecraft and the evolution of building games, from Froebel’s gifts on, highlighting the role of play in cognitive development during childhood and beyond.  

The exhibition is in collaboration with FEM Future Education Modena, international centre for innovation in education, which has developed the virtual version of the Museo della Figurina; Associazione Amici del Sigonioset up to promote the artistic and cultural heritage of the Modenese school; andFondazione Tancredi di Barolo – MUSLI, the Turin schools and children’s books museum.  

Info and bookings
BUY
Book a guided visit

Address

Museo della Figurina:
Palazzo Santa Margherita

Opening times

Wednesday - Friday: 11am-1pm, 4-7pm;  
Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays: 11am-7pm 


Entry

full price € 6 / concessions € 4 (Vivaticket circuit) 

Free entry: every Wednesday 

Guided tours: every Saturday, 5 pm 


Information

biglietteria@fmav.org | www.fmav.org 
Tel. during exhibition hours: Palazzo Santa Margherita 0592032919 



Press office

Santa Nastro
s.nastro@fmav.org press@fmav.org
+39 3201122513 


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