Visitors’ comments and opinions
Discover how the audience evaluated the exhibitions and events offered
When children teach adults. Thank you for sharing this treasure of the community!
Beautiful exhibition, with things never seen before, only made possible by some people’s passion keeping it alive.
Excellently comprehensive and pedagogically well-presented. Thanks to the very kind and well-prepared curators.
Find out how the audience has rated the exhibitions and events offered.
Hooray!
An incredibly interesting discovery!
Thank you! They are all “trinkets” with great meaning!
A magical retrospective journey!
Thank you for this fascinating journey through time!
I really liked the “Bianco e Nero” box. Well done!
Knowledge starting from the student!
When children teach adults. Thank you for sharing this treasure of the community!
Time travel.
Beautiful! Thank you!
hat a beautiful exhibition! It made me feel small.
Leaving you speechless. Pure wonder!
Congratulations!
A dive into the past, but also a suggestion to look at reality and the person. This approach to perspective should be studied in schools. A very uplifting and truly beautiful initiative.
These objects remind me of kindergarten days, back then we called it that, small treasures with which we children of the past learned to observe and discover reality.
Teachers who left their mark. A passionate person eager to share. Thank you!
Objects touched by hands that learned, full of experience. Together. The individual becoming a group. Thank you!
Beautiful exhibition, with things never seen before, only made possible by some people’s passion keeping it alive.
With this exhibition, I mentally return to my internship in Mompiano many years ago. Beautiful, and thank you!
Thank you! A very beautiful exhibition.
Beautiful!
Very interesting, especially for me as an older person.
It takes me back in time (with lots of nostalgia).
The extraordinary work of the Agazzi sisters!
Beautiful to see and observe ancient yet very current educational tools.
The extraordinary work of the Agazzi sisters. A marvel, the exhibition. Congratulations!
Beautiful exhibition, a dive into the past.
Excellently comprehensive and pedagogically well-presented. Thanks to the very kind and well-prepared curators.
Rediscovering a joy from part of my life by talking with the exhibition’s promoter, Stefano Giovanazzi.
Saw everything with great interest and pleasure.
Very interesting exhibition with very skilled curators explaining the contents of the boxes. Thank you!
Beautiful material, excellent setup. Thank you!
A very beautiful exhibition and interesting pedagogical history. Goodbye.
A wonderful experience that all teachers should live to rediscover the ‘child’ within us. The proposed methodology is more relevant and effective than ever. “Get involved, enjoy your work.” A good wish for today’s schools!
A marvelous display, an opportunity to learn about the work of the Agazzi sisters. A dive into the past. Congratulations, thank you!
A trip down childhood memory lane: kindergarten (not yet called preschool) run by nuns, I remember the glue crafts where glue (made of white flour) was distributed by teaspoons, at the edge of the desk, in shells.
I have taught hearing-impaired children and used many of these materials.
Lucky are the children who attended the Agazzi kindergartens.
Beautiful exhibition. Thank you!
I was at S. Martino kindergarten from 1950 to 1953.
Very interesting.
Very interesting to see now-lost materials.
We always learn by looking to the past, even though we are used to looking forward! Congratulations!!
Splendid!
Very interesting! The world of yesterday that continues.
The educational method of the Agazzi sisters still inspires many today! Thank you for this beautiful collection of the past for the most precious asset of our society, its children! Thank you!
So much educational passion is evident in these collections. Thank you! Hopefully, it will serve as an example, even on ‘new roads.’
How wonderful! I hope we will soon be among the most innovative in the educational field in Italy and Trentino! Thank you!
Interesting and fascinating explanation by the very skilled curators. Congratulations!
A precious exhibition. Congratulations to Maestra Morena, one remains enchanted!
The intention and educational passion shine through. A precious trace! Interesting! Very beautiful collection! Thank you!
Curious! Thank you!
Valuable cultural assets. Extremely interesting exhibition!
I would love to be a trinket and relive it in a thousand different imaginations! Congratulations to the organizers and involved entities.
I remember my preschool days (sixty years ago). Wonderful!
For me too, a trip back in time! Former preschool teacher.
Thank you for this educational display!
It’s nice to become children again with the Agazzi sisters
Interesting and well presented. Thank you, so many memories!
Stunning exhibition! A dive into the past with heart and mind.
A well-documented and very beautiful exhibition.
Congratulations, very interesting!
Truly spectacular! Memories of my childhood come back. Congratulations!
Beautifully organized, comprehensive.
Thank you very much, of great interest!
Beautiful exhibition!
Thanks for the insights, and the awareness that we can always learn more!
Drawn outside by a simple sign, we were pleasantly surprised by how, with simple objects and everyday items, one can learn everything useful in life!
A beautiful exhibition that triggered wonderful memories. Well done!
Beautiful memories!
“The non-things: how we stopped experiencing the real” by Byung-Chul Han
Extremely interesting: it highlights the fleeting nature of memory and understanding of reality if multisensory engagement is not used.
A truly beautiful and well-organized exhibition. Everything very clear and engaging!
Many thanks!
Stunning exhibition, thank you!
Cheerful, stimulating, and ‘luminous’ display.
Congratulations, a truly beautiful exhibition! People who care about children.
Beautiful exhibition, compliments for the care and explanation.
We were impressed and nostalgic memories of our childhood came to mind. Thank you!
Impressive. My child’s curiosity led me to learn about a method I want to explore further. Congratulations! Beautiful exhibition.
An extraordinary display. I am impressed by the method of the Agazzi sisters. Thank you!
Oh! So many memories this exhibition brought back! As a former kindergarten teacher, I appreciated it very much. Thank you!
I experienced moments full of memories. Thanks to the trinkets!
I rekindled wonderful memories. Thank you, beautiful exhibition!
A bit of magic, science, philosophy, art, and wisdom! Observing children teaches (or should teach) us to be better in the world. Thanks to the Agazzi sisters and the organizers of this wonderful exhibition!
I happened to come across this exhibition by chance and found it very interesting; it’s about putting yourself in children’s shoes and using simple objects to explain complex concepts; very good! Also thanks for the preparation and kindness of the staff.
Extraordinary exhibition! A world of emotions, insights, and revolutionary pedagogical reflections, with the signature of an artist of exceptional sensitivity. Original and top-level organization and setup. Sincere congratulations!
Beautiful! No to a culture of waste!
A marvel, thank you!
We found here the same pedagogical inspiration of Chiara Lubich.
Beautiful exhibition with ideas still very valid.
This exhibition conveyed many memories. Beautiful and interesting.
Very interesting. Memories. Well done, for this beautiful initiative! Congratulations, thank you!
What a lovely idea to showcase these toys, a jump into the past of our childhood.
An incomparable exhibition!
An interesting exhibition, it would be useful for all preschool teachers to see. Exceptional!
Very beautiful, the exhibition. It’s heartwarming to see the work done to truly shape the human person. The crafts and drawings are adorable, a perfect method.
Fabulous the Agazzi sisters. Thank you for sharing their genius freely and openly with everyone!
I sincerely thank the organizers because the endless works of the Agazzi sisters are special! I look forward to the catalog. So many linguistic lessons.
Very interesting, this exhibition, which brought back distant memories.
Truly moving, discovering home when coming from outside!
Very interesting exhibition. A return to greatness…
What genius and research!
Splendid work!
How wonderful!
Beautiful!
A beautiful story of great love for children, made concrete in a method that made many people grow!
A unique, precious experience. Thank you!
Magnificent experience! My daughters went to S. Martino kindergarten, and it’s nice to discover what was before. Maestra Morena still remembers her.
Congratulations for the initiative that keeps alive a historic experience.
Very interesting and fascinating. Gorgeous setup!
Long live the knick-knacks and the memories rediscovered through hands, eyes…
A leap back in time, many memories, games, discoveries. Thank you!
Memories that resurface and enrich the present. Very beautiful, thank you!
Brings you back in time. Maybe!
It’s wonderful to see how children slightly younger than us played.
It’s wonderful to see that it’s possible to teach new generations to give new life to things, even those that seem useless at first glance.
Congratulations: I live in Mompiano, and the Agazzi sisters were HEROES, sadly forgotten in Brescia.
Congratulations ‘Maestra Morena,’ a special and precious work, and what a pleasure to see you again after almost forty years! Thank you!
Thank you, precious knick-knacks!
Authentic reflections on teachers’ and educators’ workshops
In this section, discover how the teachers of the kindergartens and primary school teachers involved in the project experienced the workshops planned for Cianfrusaglie.
INTONARUMORI: THE CIANFRUSAGLIE OF FOLEY ART with Mirko Porta and Daniele Marinelli from the Creatori di Suoni Association of Rome: how ambient sounds are created for cinematic works.
Participants: 22 fifth-grade students from La Vela School in Rovereto.
It was an inspiring and enriching opportunity for the children, but also for us teachers to see them as protagonists!
We had the chance to meet two sound professionals and artists who revealed some secrets of their craft and what they create in the studio.
It was wonderful to see the children’s amazement in front of a table of “cianfrusaglie” (junk objects). In fact, what the two artists brought were simple everyday objects: plastic bags, a pair of sweatpants, sheets of paper, a wicker basket, a bell. Nothing sensational, but in their hands, it becomes sound magic.
The children immediately immersed themselves in the spirit of the workshop, actively participating by trying out the sounds produced by those “cianfrusaglie” and attempting to understand which sounds best suited to accompany the selected images. With joy but also great seriousness!
Each of them, following the instructions and advice of the artists but often improvising, tried to recreate the sounds of some scenes from the proposed short film.
It is not easy to observe the images and produce synchronized sounds appropriate to the scene, but the children bravely took on the challenge, and at the end of each performance, smiles and applause were never lacking!
Everyone participated actively and contributed to a collective creation, including the shyer and more reserved children.
Spontaneously, some very interesting creative ideas also arose from the children: for example, a girl suggested using a bell found among other miscellaneous objects to ring it like a Tibetan bell. Another girl wanted to enrich the already quite rich sound track by imagining that the forest spirits present in some scenes were chatting with each other with little giggles.
And it was a magical, incredible moment!
Another aspect that fascinated the children was getting in touch with the technological side: the equipment needed for recording and the editing software that offers endless possibilities for combinations.
So, thanks to those who proposed these wonderful workshops in the schools, to the artists who made themselves available, to Ente San Martino, and to the people who are lovingly preserving the treasure of the Sisters Agazzi… which, after more than 100 years, still manages to inspire many ideas and surprising influences
Valentina Giovanazzi, teacher at La Vela School
