Mart - Museum of modern and contemporary Art Trento and Rovereto

Mindfulness in the Museum is an invitation to observe and get to know each other, an opportunity to live the art experience intensely. The practice of mindfulness helps to open the space between our thoughts and emotions and discover a higher level of knowledge of the art. The immersive experience, led by Marco Peri, is a path of meditation inspired by the works of art of the MART. Any mindfulness practice in the museum it consists of a keynote session, three meditation sessions and a concluding discussion among the participants to share the experience. Mindfulness in the Museum training workshop it is intended for museum educators and mediators who want to learn more about mindfulness and how to integrate and apply it in their projects.

Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto (Mart) is the centre of modern and contemporary art in Italy, it puts on large thematic exhibitions, the results of years of research, national and international temporary exhibitions and artistic programmes on twentieth century art periodically reconceived and renewed making use of its collections. The museum has a collection of around 20,000 works among them paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures.
Mart’s Education department organizes different projects to assist individuals with physical or mental disabilities in co-production with third parties working in the various therapeutic and other fields. Blind people have the opportunity to participate to two different tactile itineraries: one at Mart Museum and the other at the Futurist House of Art Fortunato Depero.