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The history of customs and smugglers relives through aumgented reality, with the Swiss Customs Museum Experience

24 April 2018 by Antonio Scuderi in Home, Works, Projects

From April 25, the Museum of Swiss Customs of Gandria will offer its visitors an exclusive experience.

This is the Augmented Reality tour “Customs Museum Experience”, promoted by the Museum of Cultures in Lugano and the Swiss Customs Administration and developed in collaboration with Capitale Cultura International and ARtGlass. The project relies, as publishing partner, on the Radio-Television of Italian Switzerland, which has made available interesting films from its historical archives, never exploited before with this new technology.

multimedia glasses that are perfectly transparent and capable of recognizing what one is looking, visitors to the Museum will come face to face with the customs officers who inhabited the Gandria border post and will enter the secrets of the smugglers, their antagonistic historians.

Thanks to spectacular reconstructions at 360 degrees, it will be possible to discover the history of the Museum, recognize the places that can be admired from its windows and virtually open the smuggler’s wallet, unveiling its tools and the tricks of the trade. A real “time machine” that will thrill the many tourists who visit the house museum every year, bringing them closer to the great history and tradition of the Swiss Customs, institution famous throughout the world.

The experience will be offered to all visitors for the price of 3 francs and will be available initially in three languages: Italian, German and English.

The first ARtGlass US augmented reality tour at James Monroe’s Highlands

12 February 2018 by Antonio Scuderi in Eventi, Home, Works, Projects

Thanks to ARtglass US, augmented reality tours make their debut in the United States.

At the historical sites of James Monroe’s Highland (Charlottesville, Virginia), smart-glasses will show 3D holograms, text, pictures, and video alongside the real-life environment, helping people discover the residence of one among the most influential presidents of the United States (1817-25).

The house currently standing was not where Monroe actually lived, that was destroyed by a fire after the property was sold in 1826. AR will allow people to view a 3D model of what the house looked like.
The AR tour also will explore the lives of the people who lived on the plantation, thanks to virtual animations and conversations based on historical documents and research.

ARtGlassd US is currently at work at other primary presidential sites, including George Washington’s Mount Vern.

Hannibal’s journey stops in Piacenza, since September 2018

25 January 2018 by Antonio Scuderi in Home, Works, Projects

The exhibition of Hannibal arrives in Piacenza, at Palazzo Farnese. After the stages of Barletta and Crotone, crowned by a great success of public and critics, the original project by Filli Rossi, promoted by the City of Barletta in collaboration with Capitale Cultura Group, from September 2018 on the places of the Battle of Trebbia fought in 218 BC. The Piacenza stage of the trip is promoted by the Foundation of Piacenza and Vigevano and the Municipality of Piacenza, with the curatorship of Giovanni Brizzi, Ermanno Arslan, Luigi Malnati and Filli Rossi, already members of the scientific committee of the exhibition of Barletta, Antonella Gigli and Marco Podini.

For the exhibition, the archaeological finds already exposed in Barletta will be enriched with objects from the Po Valley area, innovative multimedia solutions and many new features for an international event.

New ARtGlasses in San Gimignano Civic Museums

25 January 2018 by Antonio Scuderi in Home, Works, Projects

A project realized by ARtGlass and Capitale Cultura with the Municipality of San Gimignano, Fondazione Musei Senesi, Opera Laboratori Fiorentini, Vernice Progetti Culturali.

SAINT GIMIGNANO. Almost four years after the first international experimentation, started in San Gimignano, thanks to ARtGlass the world of museums is even more beautiful. Thanks to wearable devices in Augmented Reality, now there is a renewed and updated way to discover the Civic Museums of San Gimignano: the Town Hall, the Picture Gallery, and Torre Grossa.

The new release, proposed by ARtGlass / Capitale Cultura Group, thanks to the collaboration of the Municipality of San Gimignano and Opera Laboratori Fiorentini and the contents proposed by the Fondazione Musei Senesi and Vernice Progetti Culturali – adds new contents to the visitors’ experience with a peculiar mix of video-storytelling and three-dimensional animations, enriched by musical backgrounds and recited passages. Now it is possible, in fact, to follow the fascinating adventures of the saint patron of the town through the polyptych of Taddeo di Bartolo and admire all the points of interest of the town and its surroundings from the top of Torre Grossa, where augmented reality allows the reading of monuments, of the landscape and traditions.

Capitale Cultura Group and Cultural Heritage Partners for the international fundraising of the National Museum of Science and Technology “Leonardo da Vinci”

24 January 2018 by Antonio Scuderi in Home, Works, Projects

Capitale Cultura Group was commissioned by the Leonardo da Vinci National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan to support at an international scale the fundraising activities for the projects envisaged by the Museum in 2019, on the occasion of the celebrations for the fifth centenary since the death of Leonardo da Vinci.

Capitale Cultura Group, in collaboration with the US partner Cultural Heritage Partners, will focus its activities on large donors and patrons, especially Americans and on companies with an international profile, to ensure support for a very complex project, at whose center will be the New Galleries Leonardo of the Museum is an intense and innovative program of educational and cultural initiatives.

On the Web: the National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo Da Vinci http://www.museoscienza.org/en

(Italiano) Inaugurata a Crotone la mostra “Annibale. La fine di un viaggio”

14 December 2017 by Antonio Scuderi in Home, Works, Projects

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.

The great authors of Italian opera relive through augmented reality, in Ragusa

23 November 2017 by Antonio Scuderi in Eventi, Home, Works, Projects

On November 19, the exhibition “La calunnia è un venticello” was inaugurated at the Donnafugata Theater in Ragusa Ibla, a small baroque jewel in the splendid setting of the Donnafugata Palace. The exhibition relives the works and above all the loves that inspired three great Italian composers: Gioachino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini and Giuseppe Verdi.

Visitors have the opportunity, thanks to ARtGlass, to have almost a “physical contact” with the 3 protagonists, and to relive thanks to Augmented Reality moments, places and moods that led to the creation of great masterpieces. Rossini will materialize in front of the visitor, talking about his love for Isabella Colbran, and the stories related to the staging of the Barber of Seville.

The objects exhibited in the room dedicated to Giuseppe Verdi will allow the visitor to relive his love story with soprano Teresa Stolz, his lover, and the torments of his wife Giuseppina Strepponi.

The highlight of the exhibition is an unpublished, original page of Bellini’s sheet of opera “Montecchi e Capuleti”, which will be admired for the first time. Thanks to ARtGlass, the score will “take life” around the spectator, which will be surrounded by musical notes that will appear in music time, allowing even non-experts to understand and follow the track.

The exhibition will be open until December 28, with free admission.

“The last night”, the short movie based on the Chamber of St. Paul in Parma presented in Rome

16 November 2017 by Antonio Scuderi in Home, Works, Projects

“The Last Night”, the short film written and directed by Irish Braschi and set in the Chamber of Saint Paul in Parma, has been presented in Rome, today, Thursday 16 November, at the Dioscuri Theatre at the Quirinale, managed by Istituto Luce-Cinecittà. The project is supported and promoted by the Association “Parma, io ci sto!”, born from a group of entrepreneurs aiming to relaunch the city and was developed in collaboration with the Polo Museale dell’Emilia Romagna and the Soprintendenza Archeology Fine Arts and Landscape of Parma and Piacenza. It proposes itself as an innovative example of public-private partnership in favour of the enhancement of one of the greatest masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance. Produced by Capital Culture Group, the short film is set in the room frescoed by Correggio between 1518 and 1519 and is interpreted by two emerging figures of Italian cinema and television, Massimiliano Davoli and Cristiana Vaccaro, in the garments of the artist and the client, respectively, the Abbess Giovanna from Piacenza.

The cinematographic language is put to the service of the narration of an emblematic history of the Italian Cinquecento, with the intent to emozionally engage the audience and to offer a new perspective on the work of art.

Positive balance for the season of the Swiss Customs Museum in Gandria

3 November 2017 by Antonio Scuderi in Home, Works

The season at the Museum of the Swiss Customs of Gandria closes with a very positive balance: more than 8,000 visitors from April to October, with an average of over 40 daily visits. An audience coming for the 60% from German Switzerland has appreciated the evocative spaces of the Museum, the new hospitality services and the bookshop: a project of cultural enhancement realized by the Cultural Services business unit of Capitale Cultura International in collaboration with the Museum of Cultures of Lugano and the Central Customs Administration, which allowed for the consolidation of the thematic vocation of the museum and the development of efficient management practices, helping to place the museum as a reference point for tourism and cultural in the Lugano territory.