Giornata Nazionale Piccoli Musei alla Casa Museo Spada

On September 22, 2024, the Casa Museo Spada Antichi Strumenti Musicali will be open for the seventh National Day of Small Museums, from 9:00 to 18:00 welcoming every visitor with a gift.
Visitors will be able to explore a place populated by over a thousand musical instruments from various parts of the world and various eras, as well as furnishings, paintings, and manuscripts that will make the visit immersive.
The instruments are grouped by contexts of use: at the entrance, the space dedicated to liturgical and ritual music, then the band music, orchestra woodwinds, educational instruments for children, keyboard instruments, string instruments, and finally the rooms dedicated to world music, folk music, and mechanical music.
Through the use of a touch-screen station and QR codes placed at the entrance of each room, visitors will also be able to see the instruments play, listen to them, or get more detailed information on each instrument in the collection.
On their National Day, small museums showcase their specificity to different "audiences," institutions, and the media: putting the visitor at the center, making them feel expected and welcomed, understanding their needs, offering an engaging and interactive visit, and, in the end, thanking them with a small gift.
Small museums experiment with new museographic and communicative languages, propose a narrative that is able to create a relationship with the territory, society, and its historical and cultural heritage, giving meaning and identity to a community.
Visiting a house-museum gives the privilege, compared to large traditional museums, of not getting lost, not being overwhelmed by dozens of visitors and guides: in the house-museum, the visitor is expected and welcomed, free to move around, take photographs, and chat with the curators.
In comparison to large museums, the house-museum does not have a ticket office (only voluntary contributions), is not just a container, but is made up of people: those who welcome, accompany, disseminate, animate, protect, and enhance.
The Spada Collection, located in the historic center of Lecce, contains over a thousand musical instruments, built between the 17th century and the early 20th century, along with an important iconographic collection and a library of over two hundred manuscripts, scores, and books on music.
The collection is housed at Palazzo Prete, a former shoe factory, an industrial archaeological building where all the architectural elements have remained intact.
Reservation at 3287496672 or collezionespada@gmail.com
Sunday, September 22, 2024
CASA MUSEO SPADA ANCIENT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
11 Mayor Lupinacci Street LECCE
7th National Day of SMALL MUSEUMS
entrance with voluntary contribution and guided tours from 9:00 to 18:00
for reservations and information collezionespada@gmail.com tel 3287496672
Web: www.collezionespada.it