Information service of the Pontifical Mission Societies since 1927
Assisi (Agenzia Fides) – On Friday, 4 February, in Assisi, the new Missionary Museum of the Capuchin Brothers of Umbria will be inaugurated. It is called MUMA (Amazonian Missionary Museum), and it will be the first museum of its genre in the world. What makes it unique is the choice to transform a traditional missionary museum into a museum completely multimedia and interactive. The venue is the same as the previous museum founded in 1973, via San Francesco, number 19, but everything else has been profoundly transformed: the spaces were redesigned, the stations have become digital showcases, the photos have acquired words and movement, lighting has become an integral part of the stand, the sounds of the forest have replaced the silence, the actors' faces have a voice. The guide to the museum is a sophisticated headset in Italian, English and Portuguese. In this way, a visit to the museum becomes a real sensory experience. The MUMA recounts 100 years of missionary presence of the Capuchins from the western region of Umbria in Amazonia, in Brazil's Upper Solimões region, bordering Peru and Colombia. The MUMA is an historical, ethnographic, scientific and missionary museum: telling the social, economic and cultural history of Upper Solimões; the encounter with the indigenous nation of Ticuna and with the multicolored Brazilian world; the commitment of the Capuchin religious, previously Umbrians then Brazilians, who built churches, hospitals, schools and factories. The MUMA was desired by the Capuchin Seraphic Province of Umbria, designed and built by Nova-T in collaboration with Interactive Sound. (SL) (Agenzia Fides 15/1/2011)
