Search results for " musealization"
showing 3 items of 3 documents
On site archaeological museums: types of protection
2011
The decision to preserve, in their original context, even the most fragile artefacts, such as floor and wall coverings and to exhibit the delicate stratigraphic or clay manufactures, has favoured the spread of archaeological museums in situ, by interventions aimed at the preservation of archaeological remains. Archaeological museums represent a particular typology capable of relating history through its ruins. Therefore, it is not a museum having typological and functional characteristics that answer to codified museum-graphical and display rules . The arrangement and the public opening of the archaeological sites in recent years have been the object of discussions, debates and interdiscipl…
Open-air Conservation of Ruins and the Concept of “Non-Dislocation”
2012
Most of the on-going debate is about “how” to protect archaeological ruins, whilst at the same time allowing the general public to enjoy them. Today it is clear how important it is, from the actual planning stages of excavations, to interact with experts from other disciplines, who are working on their own findings and offering them up for collective enjoyment. Whatever might be feasible for an indoor museum is not always feasible with an architectonic ruin, as regards both presenting objects with explicative apparatus that determines their significance, and exploring them in a new way when interpretations change or new ideologies are introduced. First of all, conserving excavations is the …
I parchi preistorici: esperienze internazionali di “presentazione” del paesaggio come riscoperta delle valenze immateriali
2007
The meaning of “cultural patrimony” includes today both the objects and the popular traditions, that is including both the material and immaterial values. Territory, local architecture, daily life uses and customs have been placed side by side to “dignified” finds – in the role of testimony of the past – with equal dignity. Such testimony is firmly connected to the territory and its landscape. Actually, sites of archaeological interest are recognized not only for their intrinsic value, but also for the space that they represent. Today, a greater attention is paid to natural environment and there is a greater awareness that the “archaeological heritage” assumes a connotation more and more ti…