THE GUIDE – Museum Guide Paris

FE CASTELLANI, an Art Historian specialized in Museology and a Museum Guide in PARIS

“I got a lot of my passion to study and to share knowledge from both my parents who are professors. And when I say to share, I really mean to connecte, where I not only pass informations, transforming a complex fact into a simple and fluid communication, but also listen and learn. It’s very important for me to create a comfortable atmosphere for everyone. To learn should be a moment of expansion, growth and therefore happiness and pleasure. That is no such thing as “silly questions”, the most important thing is to be curious, to stay sincere with yourself about the unknown, so we can together search for the answers.

There is no better feeling than knowing that you helped someone initiate or develop him/herself to the art world with your “push”. I fell in love with Art History many years ago, even before my graduation, for me, it’s the nicest way to understand human society. We study the past, so we can live better in the present and construct together a finer future.”

Fernanda was born in São Paulo, Brazil. She first graduated in Fashion Business at the University Anhembi Morumbi, a Laureate International Universitiy, (2006-2010). In this field, she worked at first as a stylist and then as a fashion researcher. She used to travel all over her country giving conferences about the new fashion trends. In 2013, she decided to change her career.

Always seeking for quality, she started another graduation, in Archeology and Art History at the University Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), where she got her degree in 2017. Later, she got her Master’s degree, with a specialization in Museology at the University Sorbonne-Nouvelle. After this path, she obtained from the Ministry of the Tourism and the Ministry of Culture of France the official license to be an Official Museum Guide.

Since then, she works as a guide and as an entreprise individuelle (EI) – an independent art historian presenting the rich collections of Parisian Museums for the art lovers (tourists, families, school groups, not-for-profit organizations) in such sites as Louvre Museum, Castle of Versailles, D’Orsay Museum and others. She also has been working directly with museums, in occasional lectures at Reunion des Musées Nationaux in France (Grand Palais and Musée de Luxembourg, Château de Versailles).