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The Museion

From: Milan, Italy to Bolzano, Italy

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Museion In a brand new Mini Cooper with Paola driving, we reach Bolzano in three hours. Instead of going to the first, boring, press conference, we prefer to eat a giant würstel. The salesman speaks only German. After crossing a traditional (and pretty trashy) Speckfest, we go to the Museion. The beautiful and quite alien building is not quite good enough to erase the awful architecture around it: pompous houses from the ‘70s doubtlessly designed by the typical provincial surveyor. The river in front of the Museion is crossed by two undulating bridges, costing around one million euros together. I interview the exhibition curator. Hanging around as the assistant run around to get everything ready, I feel better observing that even in a museum the preparation ends just a minute before the opening. After a pizza, we attend the evening event, which is a projection of a piece by Anri Sala on the Museion façade. The day after, at the opening, great women dressed in unlikely Commes des Garçons shocking blue suits (and it's only 11 in the morning!) dot the street, and we take a lot of interviews. The only one that really gave us a hard time was the local "star", explorer and alpinist Reinhold Messner, who let us wait for 15 minutes chatting with everyone and keeping us waiting only, in the end:, to say "I have to go to the town Speckfest!"

Original Briefing

How can a museum bridge a territory split by history?

From self-rule, to Austria, to Bavaria, to France, to Germany, to Italy, the region of Trentino-Alto Adige is one of the those stretches of land that’s been handed around by so many European powers that, nationally speaking, it properly belongs to no one. With a substantial German-speaking population, Mussolini attempted to colonize it and give all the German speakers to Hitler. This failed, and though officially the Alto-Adige is Italian, because of treaties with Austria and (German-speaking) separatist movements, it enjoys considerable autonomy. This is just to say that there are Germans and Italians and they haven’t always gotten along. A new museum, the Museion, is opening in major city of Bolzano that both in its collection and design attempts to finally patch its rather tumultuous history. The general focus of the museum collection is language in art and with language being a significant wedge in the community; this could not have been accidental. Designed by the KSV Krüger Schuberth Vandreike architect collective, the new Museion is placed on via Dante, facing the Talvera river. A cube with two transparent facades, it connects the old German speaking center and the surrounding Italian districts. Not only can the two cities now peek on each other through the structure, but the Museion is also building an actual bridge to connect them.

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This is just to say that there are Germans and Italians and they haven’t always gotten along. A new museum, the Museion is opening in major city of Bolzano that both in its collection and design attempts to finally patch its rather tumultuous history. The general focus of the museum collection is language in art and with language being a significant wedge in the community; this could not have been accidental.

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