Rome Fiumicino airport turns into a museum housing archaeological finds

Finds from Ostia Antica and the Isola Sacra necropolis are on display... at Rome Fiumicino Airport! The initiative stems from the renewal of the partnership between Aeroporti di Roma and the Ostia Antica Archaeological Park and is called The Images of Time. Roman Art and the Flow of the Seasons, an exhibition that airplane passengers will be able to visit while making a stopover at Fiumicino’s Leonardo da Vinci Terminal 3. The itinerary takes passengers to discover six works that include statues and mosaics accompanied by explanatory plaques and is accompanied by a film in Italian and English.

A note reads, “Aeroporti di Roma has chosen to host six precious exhibits inside boarding area E, a state-of-the-art infrastructure in Europe of about 90,000 square meters, which can accommodate more than 6 million extra passengers a year. A location with an architectural concept inspired by the heritage of classical Roman culture and where it is possible to find the best of Made in Italy from the point of view of food and wine and fashion offerings.”

Mariarosaria Barbera, director of the Ostia Antica Archaeological Park, stressed, “This is the second exhibition we are organizing with Adr in the Terminal 3 agora. The idea of proposing a museum display inside the airport has proved successful: people in transit show interest in the statues, educational apparatus and accompanying videos. It’s a small taste, an appropriate calling card to the best expectations our country generates, all related to the copious artistic testimonies of the past.”

Ugo de Carolis, CEO of Aeroporti di Roma, said, “It is also thanks to initiatives like these that Leonardo da Vinci maintains this record. The exhibition of works from the Ostia Antica Archaeological Park at Terminal 3 re-proposes the juxtaposition between ancient and modern that those arriving in the capital experience and ideally closes the temporal circle of the area that, from being the maritime traffic hub of the Empire, has transformed into the current hub of the Mediterranean.”

Pictured: statue of Genius of Spring

Rome Fiumicino airport turns into a museum housing archaeological finds

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