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The University of Navarra Museum celebrates International Museum Day with entrance and free guided tours for all visitors. From Friday, May 17 to Sunday, May 19, the entrance will be free. On Friday there will be a guided visit at 6 p.m. and on Saturday and Sunday at 12 p.m. This year, the theme of the workshop is Museums as cultural hubs: the future of traditionThis is an opportunity to highlight the value of the heritage housed in museums and their role in its preservation.

Framed in this celebration, the Museum has also scheduled two creative workshops to approach and involve different groups in their exhibitions. This is the case of a group of women from Villa Teresita, who visited the center this Wednesday to participate in the workshopThe invisible woman, based on the exhibition No Return by Peruvian artist Cecilia Paredes.   

visit The participants and volunteers of the group took a guided tour of sample and then had the opportunity to work on their creative side in the museum's workshops. Each of them was able to create a work, using plastic materials, inspired by the themes presented by the artist, such as the role of women, uprooting, identity or the relationship between human beings and nature. "It is a fabulous exhibition . It has caught our attention that she is very chameleon-like. Women often have to change according to the circumstances and, sometimes, we are invisible", explained Estefanía Ruiz de Gaona and Patricia place, volunteers of the institution.

In addition, the workshop Giving life to the obsolete has also been programmed, inspired by the exhibition Small Data Lab by Daniel Canogar, designed especially for our seniors, in this case for a group of the residency program Amavir. During the activity, participants will learn about sample and then use recycled materials, obsolete technology objects donated by Traperos de Emaús, to create their own works with them.

The perspective of this workshop ties in with the theme of this year's Museum Day, as it will talk with the elderly about tradition and the passage of time, the bequest of heritage and their vision for the future.

Fernando Echarri, manager of the Museum's educational area , explains that "the workshop aims to give value to people who are old and also to think about those materials that we discard. In some societies, the elderly are the main people, while in our society they are practically excluded from social life".

In this sense, he points out that, through art, the aim is to vindicate its importance. "We are going to do it with electronic material, in a creative, playful and fun way. We want it to be a space for conversation between the past, the present and the future of art, of technology, of the issues that concern us".