The main objectives of the programme are:

• To let the leaders of all Salesian museums to know each other, appreciate the work done by the museums they run and learn from each other’s way of functioning.
• To understand and define the Salesian Missionary identity of our museums, to accept it and to commit themselves to live by it in ourr day-to-day functioning in the years to come. All Salesian institutions are to be a church, a school, a home and a playground. Every museum is a cultural and educational institution. Salesians evangelize by educating. Every museum, even if its collection is only objects of nature or related only to the life of a person, CAN become an educational and hence an evangelizing institution through the way we deal with the items in our collection and our interaction with its visitors. This Salesian missionary identity needs to be defined, accepted, promoted and applied by all our museums.
• All museums run by us become directly aware of the role they could play in relation to the fast-disappearing cultures of minority indigenous ethnic communities.
• At least some of our museums become centres of reflection, study, research, documentation and diffusion on aspects of cultures, particularly minority cultures. They grow from educational displays of material artifacts and other items to being centres of research, reflection, documentation and promotion.
• To form a network of Salesian museums for mutual learning, support and growth over theyears to come.
• To establish mechanisms and processes for animating the network and for continued collaboration.
• Those responsible for the museums become more directly aware of ways to make their museum more educative, more Salesian and more missionary.
• All museums run by us become financially more self-suatining.
• We learn about the latest in museology and the use of the most modern technologies for a more effective museum.

Besides sharing by each of the participating museums, presentations, proposals and discussions on the topics mentioned above there will be physical, in person, visits to the ethnological museum, the house of the family of John Bosco, the farmers’ museum at Colle Don Bosco, the museum of Mamma Margherita at Capriglio and Casa Don Bosco Museum at Valdocco.

The entire programme is sponsored by “Missioni Don Bosco” through the Solidarity Fund of the Rector Major.

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