Volume II — Number 110
May 2018
Monthly Newsletter
Newsletter
Paul Stankard • Travel.
M. A. Carretero.
This month of May we have Glass bottle factory in Villafranca de los Barros traveler. (Badajoz) but we were told On the 4th we will travel to by the company that due to Huelva to attend the XXVI works in the factory, the National Congress of guided tours have been Friends of Museums during canceled. So again it will be. the weekend. And on the 11th we will start In this Congress we will the trip to Japan with a group deal with the theme of of volunteer guides from trying to break the wall that CEATE to make a tour for 15 separates different days in different cities of that generations and show that beautiful country. it is possible to have young people involved in Friends' As we indicated on page 21 of this Bulletin, on the 17th associations. we will be separated from The organizers of this the group, both our year's Congress are, Secretary and myself, to visit together with the Spanish the Glass Museum of Federation of Friends of Toyama, an excellent Museums (FEAM), the museum that was Friends of the Huelva inaugurated in August 2015 Museum. and that specializes in art in contemporary glass. The congressmen have
prepared a visit to the village of El Rocío and the companions, during the work sessions, will visit the mines of Riotinto. On Sunday, the last day of the Congress, both the congressmen and the companions, we will visit the Museum of Huelva, the Monastery of La Rábida Nuestra sede: and the Muelle de las Castillo Grande de Carabelas, at the mouth of S.J. de Valderas Avda. Los Castillos, s/n the Tinto River. 28925 ALCORCÓN. We refer to this activity (MADRID) more broadly on page 15 of info@amigosmava.org this Bulletin. On the outward journey to Huelva, we had the intention of visiting the BA
directors about the need for these institutions to serve as an element to educate the public in the different branches of the fine arts. Some continue insisting on the need to attract children to serve as a link for their parents to approach museums. I do not think that this initiative is the right one, because when the child comes home enthusiastic about what he has seen in the museum, most likely his parents are busy with other tasks that they consider to be much more important, such as for example, watching a football game, and not paying attention to the illusion of your child.
I think the strategy must be In the Museum, among other the opposite: act on the exhibitions, they have made different associations of an installation of Chihuly adults so that, among their which they call "Glass art activities, they schedule garden" guided visits to museums and, when the older one The image of Chihuly, a feels sensitized by the visit leading figure in he has made, accompany contemporary glass, has his son so that can enjoy become a symbol for the what he has been able to Museum. discover. The Public Library of the city Therefore, one of the most of Toyama is also located in important activities of our the building. Association is to disseminate We hope that this visit to the the glass culture as widely as possible, either through Museum will be an unforgettable experience for guided tours, conferences with visual support that we us because of the have prepared or through opportunity to see a large collection of sculptures and a this Bulletin. museum space in which all the advances of modern architecture are installed.
In our country, the absence of culture related to art in glass is very remarkable and In another order of things, an the surprise that causes in article about the museum as the assistants to the guided visits or to the conferences an educational center was published in the newspaper its personal discovery of the nature of the glass and of the El País a few days ago. beautiful sculptures that can be very eloquent. perform The article publishes the opinions of different museum with this material.