The Museo Universidad de Navarra has launched the campaign #MUNencasa to bring art and culture to homes during the confinement. The center has kept its doors closed to the public since last March 14 due to the situation originated by the coronavirus, according to the measures established by state authorities and the University of Navarra. However, through its website(museo.unav.edu) and its social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube), the Museum continues to offer proposals to the public.

#MUNencasa dedicates a day to each area of the Museum and offers different contents around it: Monday, exhibitions; Tuesday, Campus Creativo; Wednesday, public programs; Thursday, performing arts and music; Friday, cinema; Saturday, educational area; and Sunday, publications. In addition, every day there is content about the Collection; about the exhibition Universes, by David Jiménez; and about Performing Arts.

Exhibitions and performing arts

Among the proposals, virtual visits to the exhibitions Camouflages, by Joan Fontcuberta, and El no retorno, by Cecilia Paredes, have already been recommended. This week, the protagonist is In Time, by the Navarrese photographer Carlos Cánovas. The exhibition, in addition to the Museo Universidad de Navarra, could be visited at the ICO Museum and received the Audience Award at PhotoEspaña 2018.

Within the performing arts and music, videos and playlists have been proposed on the dance shows of National Dance Company Wales, which opened the 2019-20 season at the Museum Theater; and Soliloquios, a work by choreographers and dancers Jon Maya, Cesc Gelabert and Israel Galván, whose world premiere was hosted by the exhibition halls. This week will offer proposals around the cycle Cartographies of Music and the Group of Eight or Group of the Republic.

In addition, lectures and video masterclasses, annotated photographs of works, and film and book recommendations have also been offered. This week we will share the masterclass by Carlos Cánovas; we will recommend the comedy Las vacaciones del Sr. Hulot, by Jacques Tati; and the catalog of En el tiempo. In the area Campus Creativo the work of the University of Navarra Symphony Orchestra and the University of Navarra Choir has been presented, and soon a micro-story contest will be promoted and activities will continue to be shared in the area.

Family proposals

Family proposals are also being made, so that the Museum continues to be an educational resource in the home. The activities, aimed at children, seek to help them learn through art, encourage the development of creativity and learn to think.

Thus, online puzzles have been shared on the web, based on works from the Museum's Collection, by artists such as Picasso, Oteiza, Hernández Mompó, Manrique, Muniateguiandikoetxea, Millares and Ortiz Echagüe. These games, with different levels of difficulty, adapted to the children's ages, work on visual intelligence. This week we propose to build the puzzle of Rodchenko Rojo (2004), by Manu Muniategiandikoetxea.

It has also been proposed the reading of micro-stories, stories that have their origin in the comments made by children during their visit to the Museum. Each story, which can be found in Spanish, Basque, English and French, is centered on one of the works in the Museum. While they enjoy reading, the children work on multiple intelligences, emotional skills and emotions. They also promote values such as solidarity, respect, tolerance, generosity... Another suggestion for working with the family are the videostories, video adaptations of the micro-stories, which are available in Spanish, Basque and English.

Related to the works worked on in these proposals, activities are also invited, such as the creation of plays or short stories, always in a free and creative way, with the materials that families can find at home.

New blog

The Museum also joins the #UNAVencasa initiative and has inaugurated a blog(https://encasa.unav.edu/arte/) in which it seeks to bring the life of the Museum, its collection and artists closer to the public. "We want to show our daily work, make it easier for you to peek into the life of the Museum, its collection and its artists, to enter the workshop and the head of these creators, or access the opinion of professionals about the future of contemporary art," invites the center.

Future events

Both on social networks and through the web, weekly newsletters and email, the Museum maintains an open channel to inform the public and receive suggestions or resolve doubts.

Regarding events, the inauguration of the Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, the concerts Arpa contemporánea. Un encuentro performativo, with Alicia Griffiths; Experientia, by Zorongo; and El siglo XX americano, by the Orquesta Sinfónica Universidad de Navarra; the screening of the film Zumiriki; the children's workshop Universo imaginado; and the celebration of La Noche en Blanco and the final of La Voz de Tu Facultad. Those who purchased tickets for these events have already been informed and will be able to receive a refund or use the ticket for the new date.