Under the aegis of the Ministry of Education and Culture, music education courses were created in 1975 and were subsequently integrated within the current San Marino Music Institute, which actually is not a higher education institution but a Cultural Institute with the aim of “promoting musical culture and the technical-professional preparation intended to encourage young people to perform artistic activities”. Initially, the Institute was publicly financed but privately managed. Under Law n. 82 of 1994, it became a public autonomous body with administrative and managerial independence. The Law sets out its objectives, competences and responsibilities, its property, and governs the organisation of its courses. The passing of this Law provided a sustainable framework for the future functioning and financial stability of the Institute.
In 2013, San Marino Music Institute, in agreement with the Directorate of Elementary Schools, has launched the initiative entitled “A piano in the school”: five pianos, belonging to the Institute, have been temporarily moved to five schools and will remain there until the end of the restructuring works taking place at the Music Institute. These instruments will be used in the context of music and instrumental education projects, as well as for educational and recreational activities within the schools. Thanks to music laboratories started by the teachers of the Music Institute already some years ago, elementary school pupils can sing together and play instruments, such as violin, harp, guitar and cello. The same fruitful cooperation was achieved between the Nursery School and the Music Institute, which over the years has involved children, teachers and families in significant and very welcome musical experiences organised in some selected schools of the Republic.
In 2005, the recreation centre for children Pologioco in Acquaviva (one of the educational centres on the territory, responsible to the Documentation Centre of the Kindergarten Directorate) promoted and realised the “Parco delle Storie Dimenticate” (park of forgotten stories): a path with sound, ecological, multisensory and interactive devices, a sort of permanent art park in the pinewood of Mount Cerreto. The aim is to include this project in the network of the Italian thematic parks, facilitating mutual promotion of culture and tourism.
In April 2005, a tree symbolising peace was planted in Faetano. This was the concluding stage of a laboratory, cultural and artistic project carried out during the year in the various schools of the Republic, in collaboration with San Marino University and State Museum. The objective was to sensitise teachers and pupils on the role nature has always played, since the most ancient times, in promoting peace and harmony through artistic expressions. The activity culminated with the plantation of a kaki tree from Japan, a seedling which has survived the atomic bombing in Nagasaki. The Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajma proposed the adoption of this tree by all countries of the world at the 1999 Venice Biennale.
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