Baladieh Museum in Barberry Garden; Revival of urban memory or another half -finished project?

Mehr News Agency, Provinces Group – Cyrus Dibaj: Barberry Garden, a building that was once only part of Isfahan's historical context, has become one of the most important cultural projects of the municipality: the museum Bello. But how did this decision make up and why did the Isfahan municipality think of registering and documenting its history after more than a century of activity? Is this museum merely an archive of urban management documents, or can it be a platform for a conversation about the past and future of Isfahan? To answer these questions, we have interviewed Mohammad Ali Sarami, director of the Museum of Oral History of Isfahan Municipality, to find out more from the scenes of this project and its challenges.

How Isfahan Municipality is thinking of establishing a museum Bello And why was this museum created in the Barberry Garden Mansion?

With the formation of the post -constitutional municipality, this institution has always been one of the most influential institutions in urban developments, as we are witnessing major changes in Isfahan's social relations and social relations. However, so far there has not been the necessary infrastructure to examine these developments and the role of the municipality in its path; The scientific atmosphere in which the municipality, by referring to the memory of the city and providing its records and performance, can deal with citizens about the city and urban management. This is the most important reason that makes the necessity of establishing the municipality of the Ice Museum, and during this period, the cultural view of the respected mayor has made such a necessity into an executive project.

But my personal perception is that over the past two decades, the lack of such space has always been a lack of space, but there was no comprehensive idea and plan to make up for it. This conception of a congress was held in the mid -1980s, hosted by the municipality of Isfahan, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of Baladiyah. At the Congress of Municipal Partners of a Municipal Collection Fun Valuable from documents, historical documents and urban images collected from the remaining archives in the warehouse and the National National Documentation Center, a small part of which in a two -volume book called ” Bello Until the municipality was published. In my opinion, this collection was able to prove the importance of contemporary urban management documents and the necessity of maintaining it.

Subsequently, in the basement of half the world, other parts of these documents were identified and the General Directorate of Communications was founded to organize and digitally. The reason for choosing the half -world exhibition for this mission was that the municipality had been presenting an exhibition called Isfahan and half the world for about 5 years to introduce the background of former mayors, the activities of urban management in various periods and its contemporary actions.

Finally, the idea of ​​the museum was officially introduced in the late 1980s, and with the cultural approach of the mayor of Isfahan, the establishment of the municipality was seriously on the agenda.

Despite the introduction of the museum in the Isfahan municipality media and the holding of monthly meetings there, the museum is still not known to the citizens, what do you know about this?

Now the phase of a museum has been exploited and it is natural that at this stage there is no maximum coverage of the audience. The reason Process The project is. The choice of this definition is to have previous experiences, because in an executive system, projects are usually fully engineered and linear; A straight -line program that moves point to point. Experience has shown that this type of project definition has had significant threats and weaknesses in the establishment of Isfahan cultural institutions. There are many examples. A project that is tied to Isfahan's history and identity is not simply planned and implemented, when our site is on the spine of Isfahan, so it must be decided at any stage with maximum sensitivity.

About the process of the museum -axis process Bello Explain Isfahan Municipality and what stage are we audiences?

The project has initially defined the museum as an interactive and multi -sound space for the city.

Therefore, it has predicted its decisions to reach the desired situation in four sections. These sections are not necessarily step -by -step and will be implemented based on the necessities.

Part One: Cognitive and Content Studies; As with the possibility MeasurementBackground, similar samples, identifying and separating urban management documents, formulating content and physical and spatial justifications.

Part Two: Negotiations and Relations with Equipments, National Institutions and Between InternationalEffective and effective personalities for legal and expert deepening and justifications.

Part Three: Forming Administrative and Specialized Cores such as Secretariat, Strategic Council and Design Advisory Selection.

Section 4: Implementation of small -scale tests with a limited subject; Like the event aimed at testing and stabilizing basic ideas, study and consultation meetings.

Part 5: Project consolidation with full implementation of the content and physical plan; Like the formulation of high -end documents, architectural design program, appreciation of supplies and equipment, contractors selection.

For example, in the process of this process: In the first part of the Museum Identification Program, the municipality is being implemented throughout the municipality. In the first phase of the Fire Department, the old municipality and the central warehouse. Or digitalization of the archive documents that ever one hundred Web Thousands of documents have been scanned from about 1 to 2 years. Only this digitalization part took 6 months to reach the scanning stage.

In this section, the Wool Industry Oral History Project Identifying 4 citizens, each of which has effective relationship with this place They are It is underway to record his memories in the museum's treasure trove as narrators of the Barberry Garden. Our anticipation for this project is about a year. All of these will be a small part of the museum's treasure.

Imagine digitizing all the documents, identifying all objects, conversion of film archives recorded in the late sixties, scanning images and urban maps from around the 1980s to the present, what valuable capital for the city will be.

In the second part of the signing of cooperation agreements with IkomComparative Arts and Literature Society or more collaboration with practical authorities such as art and Isfahan universities. Effective presence in social networks for effective communication with real and legal personalities.

In the fourth part, the “Garden of the Thousand Stories” event was held with the aim of effective communication with the audience to discuss the public and specialized discussion with the citizens and to use their view to make progress properly. Specialized meetings are being held with the aim of participating in expert audiences and formulating museum backup studies.