A conference on art at the service of teaching, education and research activities
Professors and researchers from the University of Navarra will present learning and research projects they have developed in collaboration with the Collection or the Museum's artistic activities at the MUN's Academic Day on Monday 20.
The theme of DIM 2024 is "Museums for Education and Research" and highlights the importance of museums as educational institutions.
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Medicine, Nursing or Law can leave their classrooms and learn in front of a work of art. Professors and researchers from different faculties and centers of the University of Navarra will exhibit the teaching projects they have developed in collaboration with the Museo Universidad de NavarraThe event will take place on Monday 20, from 9:45 am to 1:45 pm. The conference will also include artistic research projects by MUN professionals, and can be followed in person and also in online format, by registering through the website.
As Fernando Echarri , head of the educational area of the MUN, explains , the conference aims to raise awareness of two lines of work of the Museum: "the educational, aimed at both the University and other groups in society; and the research, for the scientific community, which also results in a social benefit".
The papers belong to a wide range of subject areas and faculties of the University. "Art and palliative care", by Dr. José Luis Pereira (Faculty of Medicine); "From the Big Bang to the human brain, through the path of Beauty", by María Pont (Faculty of Pharmacy and Nutrition); "Law and Art: a better understanding of our history", by Mercedes Galán (dean of the Faculty of Law); or "Tàpies' briefcase: facilitating the artistic experience for people with visual difficulties", by María Angélica Martínez (School of Architecture), are some of the twenty topics that will be discussed. Also present will be the faculties of Science, Nursing, Philosophy and Letters, Education and Psychology, and Communication, as well as MUN professionals from the areas of Performing Arts and Music, Exhibitions and Education.
Within the University, Echarri says that the MUN has been configured as an aid to the faculties on two levels: to help teach contents of different degrees, especially with the contribution of methodological innovations; and in lines of research to help to know more deeply "the experiential capacity that this Museum can offer to the educational community and society in general".
With these meetings, the Museo Universidad de Navarra joins the International Museum Day (IDM), which this year, under the slogan "Museums for Education and Research", revolves around the role of museums as educational institutions. In this respect, Echarri considers that the future of museums lies in "tender puentes with society" and that the educational capacity they can offer will contribute to this.
The MUN will complete its program around the DIM with free admission and guided tours between Thursday 16 and Sunday 19; and with the children's workshop "Investigating Color", given in collaboration with the University's Science Museum, on Saturday 18.
More information, invitations and registration for the webcast can be found on the website.