Over six hundred artifacts tell the story of Puglia's archaeology at the Castello Svevo

From December 5, 2022 to March 31, 2023, the Castello Svevo in Bari presents the exhibition Ancient Peoples of Puglia. Archaeology Tells, curated by Massimo Osanna and Luca Mercuri. A journey through time through the archaeology of Puglia. Objects that tell of peoples, and tell of encounters, exchanges and clashes. More than six hundred artifacts, many of which are not usually on public display, will be on display, spanning from the eighth century B.C. to the time of Emperor Augustus.

The exhibition is produced entirely by the Ministry of Culture and, in particular, the General Directorate for Museums, which conceived it, and the Regional Directorate for Museums Puglia. The exhibition itinerary, in a scenographic setting, will present video installations and works from the museums of the Puglia Regional Directorate of Museums, but also from the Basilicata Regional Directorate of Museums, the National Archaeological Museum of Taranto, civic and regional museums and from the deposits of the Superintendencies, giving the public the chance to see even finds that are usually not on display.

“The awareness that such a rich archaeological heritage insists on this territory is the starting point from which the ambitious exhibition project of Ancient Peoples of Apulia was born, bringing together the most significant contexts and works of Apulian archaeology in a single itinerary,” commented Director General of Museums Massimo Osanna. “The display also becomes an opportunity to highlight, even with the presence of works not usually on display, the plurality of cultures that alternated in the territory, through a narrative that enhances their peculiar characters.” “Puglia’s rich and varied archaeological heritage suggested the thematic lines of the exhibition, which found fertile ground in all the Museums, Superintendencies and other local institutions involved in this ambitious operation,” added Puglia Regional Museums Director Luca Mercuri. “The exhibition was created as an opportunity to enhance the collections of the territory’s cultural venues and was set up in Bari’s Castello Svevo, the beating heart of the city and one of the best-known and most visited monuments in the entire region, with numbers growing extraordinarily.”

The exhibition also featured the installation Chronos, placed in the Bona Sforza Hall in such a way as to unite two sections of the exhibition. The cyclical nature of life, war, death and rebirth of a time characterized by conflicts, conquests and new arrangements that merge with previous

Over six hundred artifacts tell the story of Puglia's archaeology at the Castello Svevo

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