20 May 2017
After 3 Days of Celebrations, Concerts and Workshops, BACA Ends International Museums Day Events
The Bahrain Authority for Culture & Antiquities ended a series of events to celebrate International Museum Day on 20 May 2017 through an educational children workshops
at the Bahrain National Museum organizes on 20 May 2017 from 10:00 am-13 00pm. The Kids’ Event “Scavenger hunt and Crafts at the National Museum” at the museum geared for children aged 4 to 10 enabled the children to enjoy and have fun via the educational activities organized in the galleries of the Museum and discover exciting facts about Bahrain’s past.
The Bahrain Authority for Culture & Antiquities, joining worldwide community of museums to celebrate International Museum Day on and around 18 May every year, has planned many workshops: Make a Dilmuni seal by stencil and a conversation between the friends of Enkiru Kids club to learn more about the historical collection of the Bahrain fort site museum. The workshop was accompanied by a wonderful musical concert for talented students in collaboration with Al_ Rawabi Private School. The public also enjoyed the performance of an Italian Opera Recital with Tenor Roberto Cresca and Pianist Gianfranco Pappalardo Fiumara, a concert organized in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
BACA also be celebrated this annual world event by a free entry to all Bahraini museums, including the Bahrain National Museum , which will organize a free boat trips to the Pearling Heritage Trail Visitor Center at Abu Maher Fort, World Heritage UNESCO List since 2012. Lovers of history and museums will also have a free entry day to Qal'at al Bahrain (Bahrain Fort), an ancient harbor and capital of Dilmun, featuring on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 2005, Al-Khamis Visitor Center, Bahrain Post Museum . visitors to the Pearling Path project got acquainted with the major components and elements of this UNESCO World Heritage List project through its parallel exhibition which will run until 4 August 12017.
Worth to mention that the International Council of Museums (ICOM) established International Museum Day in 1977 to increase public awareness of the role of museums in the development of society, and it has been steadily gaining momentum ever since. The theme of International Museum Day 2017 is Museums and contested histories: Saying the unspeakable in museums. This theme focuses on the role of museums that, by working to benefit society, become hubs for promoting peaceful relationships between people. It also highlights how the acceptance of a contested history is the first step in envisioning a shared future under the banner of reconciliation. By choosing to say the unspeakable in museums, the theme of IMD 2017 looks at how to understand the incomprehensible aspects of the contested histories inherent to the human race. It also encourages museums to play an active role in peacefully addressing traumatic histories through mediation and multiple points of view.
