The Quinta Parete project aims to connect two Sardinian museums that are about 170 km apart and represent the two extreme ends of an ideal route that crosses the Island and tells its most authentic and original history and traditions.
By custom, the museum is turned to the past, it is closed in its four walls: observation, cataloging, memorization, reproduction; these walls protect, preserve and protect finds and preciousness belonging to the history of a community; they present them as inanimate objects which, in order to be told, need captions, audiovisual and multimedia supports inside the museum and the generous and professional work of their guides.
In this sense, both in the MudA Museum of Las Plassas and in that of the Mediterranean Masks of Mamoiada, much has been done to make the testimonies of the past fascinating and usable. But we believe that not all the narrative possibilities of the area, its traditions and its history, have yet been explored.
It is for this reason that we thought of exhibiting all this cultural heritage through the fifth wall, that of creativity that makes all things new and allows protected cultural assets to become something else, through the art of narration declined in all its expressive possibilities. .
The two museums object of the initiative are already integrated and connected with the cultural and environmental context of their territory. This intervention frees tradition with the art of storytelling and makes it operate starting from the places where it was born. The fifth wall of the museum is the augmented tradition.
Just as augmented reality increases the map of our "physical" territory, augmented tradition increases our cultural and conceptual map, frees our imagination through art, storytelling, new multimedia technologies, cinema, music but always respecting historical sources.