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The StarWheel Interactive Museum & Gallery |
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In ancient Greece, a museum was a place of soul encounter with the "Muses" of inspiration, a Temple of Creativity and Healing.
"A great temple of the Muses in Alexandria was called the Museum. Unlike a modern museum, it was chiefly a school of the arts".
(Walker, Barbara. The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols. Harper, 1988)
Daughters of Mnemosyne (herself daughter of Earth & Sky and Memory personified), the Nine Muses were the goddesses of the Sacred Arts -from Euterpe ("Joygiver"), the fluteplaying muse to Terpsichore, the ("Dance-lover"), the muse of ceremonial dancing.
A need for true "museums" is arising anew:
- namely, places capable of restoring the original unity of co-creation between the artist, the artwork and the "visitors"
- "creative" or "explorative" museums (a cross between museum and exploratorium) where a variety of novel set-ups will allow the visitors to become participants in the activation, animation, continuation & re-creation of art pieces as vibrational fields with modulable components of sound - color - shape - texture - fragrance
- places of multi-sensory stimulation
- altars of body-mind-spirit harmonization
- sacred sites inviting again the inspiration of the Muses
In line with this vision, the torus-shaped Museum-Gallery housing the StarWheel collection and mandala traditions exhibits will be an invitation for public, students, artists & children of all ages to participate and step into interactive worlds of creativity:
- Informative panels explaining the history & cross-cultural links of sacred art traditions & practices.
- Surround environments focusing on symbolic themes: the "flower" in art & nature, the alchemy of circle & sphere and square & cube, the "infinity sign"
- Interactive settings making use of technological developments: computer 3D animations, virtual reality, visual music, holography
- Composite collages of archetypal sacred symbols throughout the world.
- A wall screen & ceiling/floor screen for large size and simultaneous projections.
- School projects - completed or in development.
- Ceremonial circles to move through for vision questing, walking meditation, sacred dancing.
- Sacred Geometry displays with 3D constructs:
- Golden Number, Platonic Solids, the mathematics of spirals... a sand pendulum...
- Games: labyrinths, merels, "Mother Goose", Spiral Dances, "real size" chess, stereograms.
- Hands-on settings to experience traditional mandala templates: the Sri Yantra.
- "Create your own mandala" display screens triggered by shapes & sounds keyboards or by voice modulations & body motions...
Welcome to the StarWheel Interactive Museum...
Happy Play...
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