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Per un museo dei mondi possibili
2021
Recensione del volume di Vito Lattanzi "Musei e Antropologia. Storia, esperienze, prospettive" (Carocci, 2021)
Materiały sejmikowe w spuściźnie po Ludwiku Gruno, księciu Hessen-Homburg w archiwum Muzeum Artylerii, Wojsk Inżynieryjnych i Łączności w Sankt Peter…
2018
The article discusses source materials for history o f Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Dietines, found in archival legacy o f Ludwig Gruno, Prince o f Hesse-Homburg. The documents are part o f field chancellery o f the prince, currently preserved in the Military-Historical Museum of Engineer and Signal Corps in St. Petersburg among over a thousand of letters, documents and files illustrating his achievements as commander o f Russian armies in the Caucasus and Poland in 1732-1736. The documents pertain mostly to tsarist army exacting war tribute in form o f food and feed in South- Eastern voivodeships from autumn 1734 to 1736. It was a significant burden to noblemen in Ukrainę, Podolia, Volhy…
Madonie, L'arte e la storia
2021
Il volume esamina il patrimonio storico artistico dei seguenti paesi delle Madonie: Caltavuturo, Castelbuono, Cefalù, Collesano, Geraci Siculo, Gangi, Gratteri, Isnello, Petralia Soprana, Petralia Sottana, Polizzi Generosa, Pollina, San Mauro Castelverde e Sclafani Bagni. Per ogni singolo borgo si affronta brevemente la storia della città e successivamente si esaminano le chiese e le opere d’arte ivi contenute, iniziando dalla Chiesa Madre o dalla Basilica per poi continuare con gli altri edifici chiesastici e i palazzi nobiliari. Particolare attenzione viene riservata all’architettura, come le chiese medievali e rinascimentali di Castelbuono, Gratteri e Isnello o quelle barocche e rococò d…
L’archéologue classique aux prises avec le monde diplomatique. Le cas de Salomon Reinach en 1881
2017
Classical Archeology Clashing with the World of Diplomacy: the Case of Salomon Reinach in 1881 Studies on the ties between archeology and diplomacy focus mostly on the way a few individuals reconciled a double career and realized the ideal of a hybrid figure: the diplomat as archeologist. Less attention has been paid to the relations, on a daily basis, between classical archeology and the world of consulates and embassies in the Eastern Mediterranean. Most of the time, one relies on the widespread cliché of the archeologist as a victim of bureaucracy. The case studied here is that of Salomon Reinach (1858-1932) and his abundant correspondence, held by the bibliothèque Méjanes (Aix-en-Proven…
Le metope del Tempio C: dal Museo della Regia Università al Museo Nazionale di Palermo
2020
The story of the metopes of Temple C at Selinus, from the discovery by S. Angell and W. Harris in the spring of 1823 to their landing in the port of Palermo, is well known trough Marconi studies. The aim of this paper is to analyze the exhibition history of Selinus reliefs, from the first arrangement in the Museum of the ‘Regia Università’ to their placement in the National Museum of Palermo (‘Museo Archeologico Regionale A. Salinas’ since 1977).
COMMUNICATING ARSLANTEPE. FOR A SEMIOTIC APPROACH TO THE MUSEALIZATION OF AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE
2012
Musealizing the remains of architectural artefacts, like the palace complex at Arslantepe, means creating a semiotic machine, no less. It is not only a matter of showing what it must have looked like in the past or placing it in its historical setting, but of making its value topically relevant, making the structure effective in terms of communication, and reconstructing the meaning that it can have today. This is the only way a museum can aspire to being valid from both the cultural and economic points of view. It follows from this that every decision that has to be taken must express a precise strategy, of which semiotics is the key. The purpose of this article is to offer the reader the …
Per un approccio semiotico alla musealizzazione di un sito archeologico. Il caso Arslantepe
2021
A museum, whatever kind it is, is a complex machine machine that operates on a multiplicity of dimensions. A object of total communication one could define it, meaning that that if on the one hand it is built to show something and give show something and give information about what it shows, at the same time it is at the same time it is itself an entity that communicates. Not by chance contemporary museums are often ultra-expensive projects, housed in prestigious buildings designed by important architects and they are managed in every way as machines to produce profit, real places of hyper-consumption. It is perhaps the most strident contrast in the case of the museum: on the one hand, it i…
Museum primatological collections: a valuable source of ancient DNA
2008
CAN ANCIENT DNA DOCUMENT THE LOSS OF GENETIC DIVERSITY IN PYGMY CHIMPANZEES? A RESEARCH PROGRAMME ON HISTORIC SAMPLES IN ITALIAN PRIMATOLOGICAL COLLE…
2009
Exploring Historical Scientific Instruments by Using Mobile Media Devices
2022
We describe an educational activity that can be completed with mobile media devices in order to understand the working principle of a pair of tuning forks, from the Historical Collection of Physics Instruments of the University of Palermo, and how they were used to explain acoustic interference and beats with the Lissajous optical method. This approach can be used with any tuning fork and it is a valuable teaching strategy that does not require specific laboratory equipment.