This year, the world will celebrate Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday anniversary, and The Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra Beach, in partnership with MIMMA (Interactive Music Museum in Malaga, Spain) will join in with a traveling musical installation of “Loving Beethoven,” which will be at the Cultural Center from March 6 to May 26.
An opening reception will be held on Friday, March 6. It will begin with a special preview for Renaissance members at 5:30 p.m. and then continue from 6 to 8 p.m.
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Last year, in June, Cultural Center Executive Director Donna Guzzo visited the museum in Malaga, Spain to begin discussions with the MIMMA Director, Miguel Angel Piedrola.
After the visit to MIMMA, Guzzo requested a collaboration with MIMMA, with the goal of developing a program that would showcase music-related activities and host the exhibit in the United States, in Ponte Vedra Beach. The interactive nature of the MIMMA exhibits, with galleries full of musical instruments for the public to touch and try, is one of the features the Cultural Center wanted replicate during the planned exhibit in Florida.
“Loving Beethoven” ties together the cultural center’s mission and the center’s outreach program Sound Connections Music Therapy perfectly,” Guzzo said. “We are thrilled to be working with Miguel Angel Piedrola and MIMMA on our first collaborative, international project.”
