Place:
Milan’s “Indro Montanelli” public gardens and former museum of cinema, Palazzo Dugnani, Milan.
Stages of the visit:
Goals:
-to design a museum space dedicated to wood, in order to host the collection of “Cormio Foundation” xylotheque; -to develop a museum plan addressed to an educating city.
Zoom: only a small portion of the collection is displayed in detail.
Fabric: the rest of the collection is partly hidden: items can be detected but they cannot be identified.
The “Cormio Foundation” xylotheque is a large collection of wooden items of different kinds (paleontological, botanical, archaeological), closed to visitors and mostly stored in the basement of the Natural History Museum of Milan. The collection will be opened to visitors through some temporary exhibitions, showing all its pieces (almost 8,000) in turn. The main feature of this collection is the number of similar items
(samples of diseased wood, circular sections, herbaria, historical wooden books, etc.): all these items will be arranged on the walls of each hall, depending on the topic to be treated, and the exhibition path will be delimited by a semitransparent fabric, in order to make perceivable but unidentifiable the nature of the exhibited items. However, some of these items will be displayed outside the path, along with their explanations (zoom on the collection).
MUSEUM FOR AN EDUCATING CITY
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