Museo Aero Solar for the second time in Albania

TIRANA, Feb. 22 – The Museo Aero Solar, a flying museum, a solar balloon completely made up of reused plastic bags, will be on display at the Promenade Gallery of the southern coastal city of Vlora starting this weekend. The Museo was first displayed in Albania back in 2008 during a cold windy day in Tirana’s central boulevard, surprising everybody.
At the Promenade Gallery in Vlora, the exhibition will be open from Feb. 25 to March 10.
The solar balloon is completely made up of reused plastic bags, with new sections being added each time it travels the world, thus changing techniques, drawings and shapes, and growing in size every time it sets sail in the air. The Museo Aero Solar, MAS, stands for a different conception of space and energy, both anomalous and forceful at the same time. The core of the MAS resides in the inventiveness of local inhabitants, not in its image: among collective action and art, do-it-together technology and experiment, it is a voyage back-forward in time.
The museo aero solar has already travelled to Sharjah (United Arabs Emirates), Isola neighborhood in Milano (Italy), Medellin (Colombia), Lyon (France), Rapperswil (Switzerland), Tirana (Albania), Ein Hawd (first recognized arab village in Israel), Minneapolis (U.S.A.), Bonames/Kalbach old airport(Germany), Carmignano/Montemurlo (Italy) and Arnsberg (Germany).