Community programmes
The museum has the commitment to widen the access of people to culture and for this reason collaborates with other cultural, educational and social entities.
Programme that uses art with resources in the area of health, and that highlights the value of museums and cultural institutions as agents with the potential to be beneficial for the well-being of people
Projects:
Migrant women with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (Vall d’Hebron)
A group of twelve women from diverse cultural backgrounds who suffer from symptoms of traumatic stress have worked for ten sessions in the rooms of the Museum, accompanied by professionals from the institution and the hospital, with the aim of incorporating the arts as recourse to the therapeutic field.
"This initiative is part of a cross-cutting programme recently approved by the Catalan Institute of Health (ICS) that seeks to advance the use of the therapeutic value of the different artistic and cultural disciplines.".
Art Gran – The elderly and loneliness (Public Health Agency of Barcelona)
Foto: Agència de Salut Pública de Catalunya
There is growing scientific evidence of the beneficial effects of art on people's well-being. Participation in arts activities by the elderly helps to reconnect them with the community.
The aim of the project is to contribute to the reduction of the loneliness of the elderly (from the age of 70) in the city of Barcelona through art workshops held in museums and heritage spaces. In 2019, the cultural facilities that are part of the project - Museu Picasso, MACBA, CCCB, Recinto Modernista Hospital de la Santa Creu y Sant Pau, CaixaForum and the Museu Nacional - have worked on the elaboration of the protocol of action and constitution of the 'team that had to carry out the intervention and the selection of the elderly participants. The 10 sessions of the project were to be implemented between April and June 2020, but due to the incidence of Covid-19, the project is still waiting for the health situation to change.
Respirar quadres – Breathing paintings (Municipal Care Homes of Barcelona)
Foto: Gemma Reguant
Covid-19 has highlighted the need to establish other ways of communicating that will ensure the well-being of people and alleviate their situation of physical and emotional isolation. The lack of air in a real and figurative sense has shaped the landscape of the illness: Covid patients have suffered it, but also people who have felt alone or isolated in their homes, the medical staff fighting against the pandemic, people from social organisations, overwhelmed and overrun by what was happening, and especially the elderly living in care homes.
The aim of the project, based on a selection of works from the museum, is to bring health benefits to people through breathing, sensory and bodily awareness accompanied by Gemma Reguant, creator of the method resulting from her research. and expert in voice and breathing.
The sessions take place in the 4 municipal care homes of the city of Barcelona in the morning and in small groups of elderly people who have been chosen by the management of the centres.
Forthcoming sessions: Friday: 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th February, 2021, from 10.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.
Venue: Municipal residences: Francesc Layret, Fortpienc, Josep Miracle and L’Onada Parc Guinardó
Shared storytelling
Residència per a Gent Gran Fort Pienc. Foto: Gemma Reguant
Based on the observation a work or a set of works of art in the museum's collection, we will generate a conversation that will be a catalyst for memories, recollections and wishes. The activity will allow participants to build stories in a creative and shared way that add new, very personal and unique meanings to works of art.
Onsite Sessions: 13th, 20th, 26th April; 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, 31st May 7th, 14th, 22nd, 29th June and 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th July 2021, from 10:00am to 1.00pm.
Venue: Municipal Care Homes: Francesc Layret, Fortpienc, Josep Miracle and L’Onada Parc Guinardó
Sessions online: 18th and 22nd May: AFAB (Association of Families with Alzheimer's Disease of Barcelona), from 11.00am to 1.00pm; 26th May: VINCLESBCN, from 11.00am to 12 noon, 27th May and 10th June: Casals de la Gent Gran (Gràcia), from 11.00am to 12 noon.
To find out more we encourage you to read the article La taula de museus i accessibilitat visita a la gent gran.
Recuperart-19 (Catalan Health Institute, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Department of Culture)
The Catalan Institute of Health (ICS), in collaboration with the Department of Culture, proposes to the health community a programme based on the use of museums as environments for reflection and improving emotional well-being.
The programme is designed to be carried out individually and autonomously and focuses on the prevention and management of possible symptoms of anxiety, depression or even mild manifestations of post-traumatic stress associated with their professional activity during the Coronavirus crisis.
From a clinical point of view, it has been designed by the Psychiatry Service of Vall d'Hebron University Hospital and the research group of Psychiatry, Mental Health and Addictions of the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), headed by Dr. Josep Antoni Ramos-Quiroga, one of the two directors of the programme together with Guillem d’EfakFullana Ferré, coordinator of the ICS Health Arts Strategy.
Who can take part?
- Health professionals will only need to be accredited by showing their professional identification at any of the participating museums, which will offer them admission free of charge.
- They will be provided with a notebook specially prepared for the activity and an information card with a list of works from the museum around which the intervention will revolve. This booklet will be the guide to follow the activity, which will be self-guided, and details instructions and guidelines for the participant. The proposed activities focus on mindfulness, concentration, focusing, cognitive association, creativity, writing, drawing, and reflection.
Where is it carried out?
- The activity takes place individually and autonomously in the rooms of the museum’s collection.
- Timetable: from 10.00am to 6.00pm from Tuesdays to Saturdays, and from 10.00am to 3.00pm on Sundays.
Museums that participate in the initiative: Museu de l'Empordà, Figueres; Museu d'Art de Cerdanyola; Museu Arxiu Tomàs Balvey de Cardedeu; Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona; Museu de L'Hospitalet; Museu Pau Casals, El Vendrell; Museu de Tortosa: Històric i arqueològic de les Terres de l'Ebre; Museu Episcopal de Vic; Museu de Lleida: Diocesà i Comarcal; Centre d'Art La Panera, Lleida; Ecomuseu de les Valls d'Àneu, Esterri d’Àneu; Museu d'Art Modern de Tarragona; Museu de la Pell d'Igualada i Comarcal de l'Anoia; Museu d'Art de Girona; Museu de la Garrotxa, Olot; Museums of Sitges.
Audio-visual maps of the city, a new space aimed at people with cognitive disabilities or functional diversity sponsored by the Fundació “la Caixa” –Art for social improvement (2013 call).
The proposal has as a reference the retrospective exhibition about the photographer Joan Colom (I work the street. Joan Colom, photographs 1957-2010) which will be a starting point to do a work of reflection and artistic creation about the city, the neighbourhood and the relation of the participants with the spaces of the city.
The project will be carried out by professionals from the world of cinema, from the team of Cinema en curs (A Bao A Qu) and accompanied by Mar Morón, who will work with the users and educators from the centres that participate in the development of the creative proposals.
The project aims to fulfil two fundamental aims:
- To facilitate the acquisition, by the participants, of some expressive resources from photography, sound and audiovisual montage.
- To generate a visual and sound map based on the everyday experiences of the participants, which make known what their visions are of the city.
It will be carried out over 4 months in various sessions and will take place in the centres and in the museum and two training days aimed at the users and the creators themselves. The project will finish in November or December 2014, with the public presentation of the short audiovisual pieces jointly created by the participants and the professionals from the cinema and a day of reflection about the use of leisure time of people with functional diversity.
The programme The art of speaking is the result of the collaboration between the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya and the Lifelong Learning Education Service of the Department of Education of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Its aim is to foster competency-based learning of languages in the schools of adults paying special attention to oral communication and transmedia literacy, understood as a set of skills, practices, values, sensitivities, and learning strategies and exchanges applied in the context of new collaborative cultures.
Apropa Cultura is an inclusive network that connects theatres, auditoriums, festivals and museums with social sector organisations to make culture accessible to vulnerable people.
The Museu Nacional forms part of various lines of work:
- Providing access to a specialised programme at a reduced price.
- Participating annually in the programme Educa amb l’Art of training for social educators:
- Promoting a series of conversations, Giving reasons for hope, between social organisations and cultural facilities that are part of the network in order to know their concerns and needs in times of pandemic.
- Participating in long lasting projects, Breathing paintings, such as the one we are developing in the Barcelona City Council Care Homes for the Elderly.
We organise working groups trained by educators from vocational training centres, special education schools, and professionals from the museum to share experiences that contribute new knowledge and ways of approaching artistic heritage from universal accessibility
The Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, together with other museums in Barcelona and the Metropolitan Area, is part of a Working Group that tackles issues of accessibility to museums. This group has created the Blog about Museums and Accessibility which gathers together their experiences and others that are of interest and that deal with issues of accessibility in the broadest sense of the term.