La Spezia: a weekend at the “Giovanni Podenzana” Ethnographic Museum between art and tradition.

A weekend full of events at the Civic Ethnographic Museum “G. Podenzana”.
On Saturday 9th November at 17.00pm a guided tour in Italian and English is planned at the “Giovanni Podenzana” Civic Ethnographic Museum on the occasion of the exhibition “En garde! Artistic manufactures, precious materials and traditional rituals in the ancient weapons of the civic museum”.

The guided tour is at the cost of the entrance ticket of the Civic Ethnographic Museum “Giovanni Podenzana” of 5 euros, including admission to the civic collection and the exhibition. Reservations are recommended.

Sunday 10 November at 16.00 pm at the “Giovanni Podenzana” Civic Ethnographic Museum entitled “A kris from… saga”. Among the artifacts exhibited in the En Garde! The kris are present, rich in Indonesian spirituality. Those with the serpentine blade are linked to the Naga, a semi-divine people, whose female figures are called Nagini, inspiration for the animal symbol of Slytherin in Harry Potter. Let's discover together the secrets and the Indonesian symbolism and make a kris.

Il educational workshop costs 5 euros, It is aimed at children between 6 and 12 years old and lasts an hour and a half. Reservations are recommended.

“En garde! Artistic manufactures, precious materials and traditional rituals in the ancient weapons of the civic museum” is the new exhibition of the Civic Ethnographic Museum "Giovanni Podenzana" open to the public until May 4, 2025 and curated by Giacomo Paolicchi who highlights the artistic production, the use of often rare and precious materials, the rituals and gestures linked to edged weapons and firearms which constitute a very important and consistent nucleus of the civic collections of La Spezia formed thanks to the generous bequests of many families: Capellini, Castrucci, della Torre, Monteverdi, Podenzana, Viale.

The occasion of the exhibition is offered by the entrance of a new nucleus of weapons and accessories coming mainly from Africa and Asia, formerly belonged to the family of the commendatore Giacomo Lardon and donated by Marisa Costa Stellini, heir of the Lardons. The exhibition allows you to admire a museum section - non-European ethnography - that the public has rarely enjoyed and which represents a unique feature in the regional panorama for which the Ethnographic Museum is one of the most important institutions.

Info Civic Ethnographic Museum “Giovanni Podenzana”
La Spezia – Via del Prione 156
Tel. 0187 727781
Email: museoetnografico.segreteria@comune.sp.it
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