A few days ago we hosted a visit from the AMIR project (Accoglienza, musei, inclusione e relazione – hospitality, museums, inclusion and relationship).

This is a project managed by a network of museums that aims to propose cultural mediation activities carried out by migrants. It currently consists of 20 mediators and 11 museums, collections, villages, churches and public spaces in Florence and Fiesole.

AMIR is a project curated by Utopia Station and the thematic museum network Musei di Tutti.

The project leaders Chiara Damian and Silvia Borsotti travelled to Territorio Mudéjar. Also involved in the project as cultural mediators were Nagham Khalil (graduate in archaeology), Luisa Romano (graduate in history and art history), Marwa Elaomaryine (graduate in economics and commerce) and Patrik Padilla (graduate in economics and commerce).

This is a European funded project through Erasmus +. The visiting organisation is a social cooperative Stazione Utopia and they work at the museum in Fiessole, a town near Florence, with whose university they are connected.

The group participates in a seminar on cultural mediation to talk about its work on the integration of young first generation migrants through culture and museums.

The group visited us accompanied by Pilar Biel (professor of Art History and director of the master’s degree in cultural heritage management at the University of Zaragoza) and Jorge Jiménez (professor of Art History at the University of Zaragoza).

In addition to a study visit to the headquarters in Tobed, to Ricla (Castle project) and La Almunia de Doña Godina; they attended the presentation of Territorio Mudéjar “New partners” in Utebo where more than 60 people attended and the travelling exhibition commemorating the 20th anniversary of the declaration of Mudejar architecture as World Heritage was inaugurated.