El MUN fomentará especialmente la contemplación en el <i>slow art day</i>

The University of Navarra Museum has scheduled for this Saturday a series of activities for the development of attention span. Thus, instead of the usual guided visit at 12 noon, two educational workshops will be held, one for children and one for adults.

Smartphones, the constant WhatsApps we receive or the incessant Instagram notifications trigger constant inputs that 'kidnap' our mind and our gaze. Capturing and, above all, keeping the attention of audiences and users is today the great challenge not only of museums, but of almost any institution, especially in the artistic field.

For this reason, this Saturday, April 5, the Museo Universidad de Navarra is joining Slow Art Day, an event that has been celebrated for the past fifteen years in art and cultural centers around the world with the goal of helping people discover for themselves the transformative experience of contact with art.

Specifically, the MUN offers two free activities, with prior registration: at 10.30 a.m. there will be a children's workshop ¡Vive el Camino de Santiago! Slow Art Day after Hamish Fulton, aimed at children from 8 to 12 years old. The participants will be pilgrims for a morning, and will be able to enter the Camino de Santiago as it passes through the Museum, making a small stage. They will have fun discovering some of the cultural treasures of this route and feeling the power of the Camino, also starting an inner journey. Afterwards, they will be able to do a Slow walking activity based on the artist Hamish Fulton. This workshop is a sample of the professor activity that takes place in the Museum, and of its link with the Schools and centers of the University of Navarra, as it is part of a Final Degree work (TFG) of a student from the School Education and Psychology.

For the adult public, at 12 noon there will be a proposal of contemplation, with the Visual Thinking methodology. Specifically, the work Incendi d'amor, by Antoni Tàpies, which is part of the MUN collection and is exhibited as part of the large sample Collection Museum Collection of the University of Navarra. Four decades. The visit to all exhibitions is free throughout 2025 on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Museum, thanks to the partnership the City Council of Pamplona.

Contemplation and corporal expression

The official Slow Art Day website has just published the proposal that the MUN offered in last year's edition: the contemplation of Manolo Millares ' work De este paraíso (also from the MUN Collection and currently on display), followed by a session of corporal expression. The participants were accompanied by the Museum's educational , performing arts and music teams.