Italy’s new National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (MEIS), under development in Ferrara, has named a committee of experts that will work to help develop its core exhibition, outreach and educational programs, and other activities.
Announced this week by Museum Director Simonetta Della Seta and President Dario Disegni, the new Scientific Committee includes scholars, rabbis, museologists, educators, and media figures.
It’s role will be to “support the nascent museum with original and highly qualified contributions that allow the full realization of the mission to spread knowledge among the general public of the bi-millennial Jewish experience in Italy, as well as [to make the museum] an open and inclusive place that promotes the values of dialogue and encounter among cultures.”
Members of the 14-member committee include — among others — Donatella Calabi, who curated the main exhibition for events marking this year’s 500th anniversary of the imposition of the ghetto in Venice; prominent Italian journalists/editorialists Aldo Grasso and Paolo Mieli, Ferrara rabbi Luciano Caro, Tania Cohen Uzielli of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Michele Sarfatti, former director of the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan, and others.
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