DESIGNING MULTIVOCAL MUSEUMS. Intercultural Practices at Museo Diocesano, Milano

This book presents the process of designing of a museum experience, included in MeLa Project’s research, and accomplished at the Museo Diocesano di Milano. The museum experience put together many relevant issues for the renewal of museum interpretation, using a design discourse to explore the combination of technological tools and multi-vocal content to enable diverse dynamics of cultural representation. The resulting aim of this work was to create multicultural narratives, to foster intercultural dialogue and stimulate transcultural practices; the choice to use a part of the museum collection clearly connoted as Christian art, allowed to face one of the most difficult topic in the cultural dialogue: religion. The volume maps the entire process of a cross-disciplinary research to develop possible scenarios that can be translated not only as test verification of the theoretical investigations but also into the production of various experimental exhibition designs.