PCTO – Pathways for Transversal Skills and Orientation

VIVE offers senior high school students an opportunity to pursue PCTO – Pathways for Transversal Skills and Orientation projects centred on cultural professions operating within the art and museum ‘system’.

The art and museum profession PCTO enables students to learn about the cultural heritage of VIVE, to explore museum roles and functions, and to direct their future professional choices in an educational and learning process based on dialogue, active participation and experimentation. It presents roles in museum management and the collections: from the cultural manager to the curator and students learn about the skills of the exhibition designer. It illustrates the functions of the conservator, cataloguer, restorer and registrar – the person in the museum administration responsible for loaning artworks. It also examines the professions involved in communication – from the press office to digital promotion – and services for the public in the specific sphere of teaching art and about the cultural heritage.At the final encounter, the students relate to the class, teachers, tutors and educators involved in the project what they have learnt on the training pathway.

The education and training underpinning the art and museum professions PCTO is an open and multidirectional process, driven by the interaction between all those involved and who help build new keys of interpretation to reality and society. In this sense, the cultural heritage and the museum environment conserving and exhibiting it are seen as “external spaces”, in which to experiment directly with the reception of perspectives, languages, contexts and different points of view, and as media territories in which to practise the ability to understand “the other”, question oneself and find new reading, processing and communication tools.

The VIVE PCTO project aims to boost interpersonal, communicational and professional expertise, and operational skills in the autonomous management of the task assigned, in the personal processing of content, in the approach to the professional world, and in the recognition of roles and functions in the museum.

The VIVE PCTO involves no cost to students and is held in person to a calendar customised for each school.
Remote encounters can be agreed upon in the event of difficulty attending the whole training pathway at VIVE.

For details of the project and to activate the PCTO, please contact the educational team at
vi-ve.edu@cultura.gov.it

in presence at VIVE – Vittoriano e Palazzo Venezia 20 hours in total, spread across eight two-hour in-person encounters and four solo study hours