History and methodology

The Education Department was created in 1997 inside the Institution Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna as an internal and stable structure aiming at approaching the public to contemporary art.

The paths proposed are based on a methodology, which conceives the art education like a stimulation for the development of the sensitivity, for the understanding of one’s own identity, the history and the reality around us. The art becomes a necessary tool for the educational processes and the works are thought not only as a text to know but also as a pretext to develop the critical sense and an open mind towards culture.

In these terms the museum is an active space, a space of education, confrontation, reflection, and enrichment; beside having the role of a cultural institution it allows the user to cultivate his own memory and identity in relation with his time.

The activity of the Education Department of MAMbo is supported by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna.