Bologna's Civic Archaeological Museum reopens second floor rooms with important new features

After a year of partial closure due to a major fire safety retrofit, from Monday, July 11, 2022, the Civic Archaeological Museum of Bologna reopens to the public the exhibition halls on the second floor, where the sections related to the city’s history (Prehistoric, Etruscan, Gallic and Roman), the Etruscan-Italic, Greek and Roman collections and the Gipsoteca are displayed. The tour route, which is completed with the Lapidarium, distributed between the entrance hall and the courtyard on the ground floor, and the Egyptian collection, on the basement floor, thus returns to be fully open for visitors to admire the heritage of Bologna’s oldest civic museum institution founded in 1881.

During the fulfillment works to achieve the compliance required by fire prevention regulations, the museum staff worked to welcome visitors back with some important innovations from the point of view oflayout andexhibition arrangement, in favor of a better reading of the materials on display. The provision of a new lighting system, particularly in the rooms dedicated to Etruscan Bologna, will allow the exhibits set up and the large Etruscan sandstone stelae to be appreciated in a completely new way.

In addition, thanks to a long-standing policy of collaboration with the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio for the metropolitan city of Bologna and the provinces of Modena, Ferrara and Reggio Emilia, a number of precious artifacts from recent city excavations have arrived on permanent display at the museum, including the extremely rich trousseau from tomb 142 of the via Belle Arti necropolis, evidence of Etruscan Bologna in the late 8th to early 7th century B.C. Presented to the public for the first time as part of the major exhibition Etruscans. Journey to the Lands of the Rasna organized by the Civic Archaeological Museum of Bologna in 2020, with its perfectly preserved wooden furnishings and valuable scientific innovations, the tomb reveals the customs, tastes and rituals of this refined ancient civilization.

In addition to the second floor, work that began in June 2021 covered the rooms and exhibition spaces on the basement and ground floor, allowing the entire Palazzo Galvani complex to be secured.

The project was commissioned by the Public Building Sector of the Municipality of Bologna, under the direction of Manuela Faustini Fustini and Flavio Cappelli.

The work involved securing the spaces, equipping the lighting, emergency, alarm, firefighting, general electrical and reel-to-reel mechanical systems, as well as construction work for REI compartmentalization, replacement and installation of REI fixtures and panic bars, adaptation of escape routes, signage and replacement of unit heaters.

For info: http://www.museibologna.it/archeologico

Image: Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna, view of installation of the Etruscan Section. Photo by Ornella De Carlo. Courtesy of the Bologna Civic Museums Sector.

Bologna's Civic Archaeological Museum reopens second floor rooms with important new features

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