Museo del brigantaggio di Cellere

audio installations, video and computer. Drawers, trap doors and hiding places. Books and files, newspaper cartoons and reproductions of the era. Testimonies and legendary tales, poems and songs. Brigandage maremmano returned through the testimonies of the time and the imagination today. A description http://lastminuteweekend.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/il-museo-del-brigantaggio-di-cellere/

The Museum aims to tell the stories of banditry in Maremma an anthropological perspective, offering visitors a chance to rebuild the interpretations and stories that from the second half of the nineteenth century to today have arisen around this phenomenon.

It aims to: provide an acknowledgment to the history and culture of the Maremma has known harrowing phenomena of illegality and which has been associated with characters in the passage of this land to modernity received the label of brigands; enhance the protagonists of this story in their rootedness in local plots and imagery of rebellion; interpret the epic of Tiburzi not as a reaction to modernity, but as an expression of it.

The ground floor is the historical reasons and contemporary documentary sources of banditry in a scene that repeats the forest symbolically (tradition) and the train (modernity disappointed). A forest in which delve listening to sounds, opening drawers and watching movies. The second floor realizes imagination that has kept alive until today the character Tiburzi. A series of multimedia installations return the stories whose protagonist is the robber.