Activities-News

In this page (and subpages for important things) we'll publish News about Activities somehow related to the Museum, and everyone is invited to share with us experiences, workshops, events.
We will gladly put here, something coming from people interested in our work, with the appropriate links, in exchange for some nice photos or videos of small animals!
For the moment, we mention events which, bringing together a new motivated group, are encouraging to go on with the project.

As the name suggests, the Museo Archeologico della Valtenesi of Manerba del Garda (BS, Italia) collects evidences of the human communities that, since prehistoric times, have settled in the area of lower Lake Garda.

But it is also located in a natural area. Thus a collaborative process was started, with an open-air insect photography laboratory.

In Capranica (VT, Italy), during a project to meet nature conceived by Giovanni Lariccia, before immersing themselves in a "forest bath", a group of children and teenagers captured photos of insects...

In these difficult times, for projects like the Museum, oriented towards active citizenship and peace, attentive to children rather than the market, it is not always easy to obtain attention and resources. Now, from a small Italian town, Altavilla Irpina, in a space run by young people, available to children and schools, comes the brotherhood of a technology and insect expert, Bruno Ricciardelli, who has been involved in the construction of Butterfly Houses for years.
We tested a prototype board prepared with artificial intelligence, starting from three words that describe groups of small animals: pollinators, suckers, detritivores...