Magnificent Returns. Aquileia's treasures return (on display) from Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum

Until October 20, 2019 National Archaeological Museum of Aquileia is hosting the exhibition Magnificent Returns. Aquileian Treasures from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna organized by the Fondazione Aquileia, the Polo Museale del Friuli Venezia Giulia and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna under the patronage of the Municipality of Aquileia and in collaboration with Fondazione So.co.Ba to celebrate the 2200th anniversary of the founding of the ancient Roman city. The exhibition allows the public to take a journey through time that, thanks to the Kunsthistorisches’s 110 artifacts, will transport visitors to theAquileia of 2,200 years ago but also to the Aquileia of the19th century when the city was part of the Habsburg Empire and the Viennese collections represented the institutional alternative to the private collecting of local families and the dispersion of material on the antiques market.

Indeed, the exhibition brings back to Aquileia, almost 200 years later, some of the most important archaeological finds returned from the extremely rich Aquileian subsoil, currently on display in the permanent collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

This is an important opportunity to present, in many cases for the first time since the distant days of their discovery, some of the Adriatic city’s masterpieces within the historical context for which they were created and in which they were used. But it also offers an opportunity to tell the story of an important moment in the history of Aquileia, which, through an intense collection, excavation and research activity that lasted more than two centuries, led to the progressive rediscovery, during the modern age, of the greatness of the ancient Roman city.

For all information you can visit the website of the National Archaeological Museum of Aquileia, or the website of Tourism in Friuli Venezia Giulia, or even the official website of the foundation.

Pictured: votive relief of Mithras.

Magnificent Returns. Aquileia's treasures return (on display) from Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum

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