Isernia's National Paleolithic Museum reopens to the public, refurbished

On Friday, April 14 at 4:30 p.m., the National Paleolithic Museum in Isernia will reopen to the public with an opening ceremony presided over by Museums General Director Massimo Osanna. In attendance will be Molise Regional Museums Director Enrico Rinaldi, Museum Director Annarosa Di Nucci, Exhibition Project Manager Pierangelo Izzo and Professor Carlo Peretto of the University of Ferrara.

The new National Paleolithic Museum of Isernia is the result of a series of various interventions carried out recently that renew the image, content and enhancement objectives of the entire museum complex, which includes exhibition halls, archaeological area and outdoor areas.

The central fulcrum of this renewal is the new layout of the exhibition halls, which restores centrality in the museum to the deposit "La Pineta," focusing on the human presence in Isernia dated to about 600,000 years ago, the activities of prehistoric groups and the relationships between man, environment and fauna. A layout designed for animmersive experience, where the typical display of unpublished archaeological material will be combined with a scenic layout consisting of settings and life-size reconstructions of animals and Homo, in order to increase understanding of the archaeological heritage and ensure universal accessibility to knowledge.

There will be four new museum sections, “Physical and Cultural Evolution of Homo,” “Archeosurface of Isernia La Pineta,” “Humans, Activities, Environments and Animals of Isernia La Pineta,” and “Prehistory in Molise.”

The museum narrative unfolds in the Museum’s unique spatiality; individual “episodes” are related to each other by free-flowing paths. All of the archaeological material on display and the human processes that produced it are intimately linked in a cause-and-effect relationship made explicit in the new didactic apparatus. The conception and realization of the scientific and museographic project, by officials of the Molise Regional Museums Directorate, was possible thanks to the coordination between different regional and national funding sources.

The multidisciplinary approach to the different phases of the intervention involved the collaboration of the University of Ferrara and its research team, as well as the involvement of proven museum professionals of national and international standing.

After the opening, the museum will open its doors to visitors until 9 p.m.

Isernia's National Paleolithic Museum reopens to the public, refurbished

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