Sarsina's National Archaeological Museum will close 10 months to reduce seismic vulnerability

Structural interventions at the National Archaeological Museum in Sarsina, aimed at consolidating the building and reducing its seismic vulnerability, will begin on September 2, 2024. The works will affect the original 16th-century body of the Museum, which has already undergone an initial seismic improvement intervention in 1990, a second structural core formerly used as a school and the two connecting bodies. The intervention will cover an area of 1,600 square meters, spread over three levels above ground, and will involve hooping all the rooms, ensuring greater safety and stability for the entire museum complex. The museum will be closed for an expected duration of about ten months in order to renew the educational-communication apparatus and give the National Archaeological Museum of Sarsina a new visual identity.

“These are complex but essential works for the safety and security of both workers and visitors of the National Archaeological Museum of Sarsina,” says Maria Luisa Pacelli, Regional Director National Museums Emilia-Romagna. “The museum, a focal point for the territory of Sarsina and the Savio River Valley, of which it preserves and exhibits material evidence of the past from prehistory to late antiquity, thanks to this project will become a safe space for the community, ready to welcome new activities of enjoyment and meeting.”

“We are grateful for the attention that the Ministry of Culture is giving to our archaeological heritage and more generally to the town of Sarsina,” said Enrico Cangini, mayor of the Municipality of Sarsina. “The National Archaeological Museum, in the last period, has seen a great increase in visitors thanks to the fruitful collaboration between institutions and thanks to the great media echo had with the sensational discovery last summer of the Capitolium sarsinate.”

“Thanks to the use of both PNRR funds earmarked for museum accessibility and funding from the Ministry of Culture, an overall museum redevelopment project will be developed, which will proceed in progressive steps in order to make the understanding of the museum’s heritage more accessible, engaging and diverse,” explained museum director Federica Timossi. “The Regional Directorate of Museums for this will use an external designer and the collaboration of FrameLAB - Multimedia & Digital Storytelling, a research laboratory of the Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna and the Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio for the provinces of Ravenna, Forlì-Cesena and Rimini, so the new museum itinerary will be able to include the relevant archaeological discoveries recently made in the territory of the Municipality of Sarsina.”

During the months when the museum is closed to the public, thematic routes and free events will be activated to explore the vast historical-archaeological heritage of Sarsina. These initiatives are made possible thanks to an agreement signed with the Municipality of Sarsina and ongoing collaboration with the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio for the provinces of Ravenna, Forlì-Cesena and Rimini.

Starting in August, workshops curated by the cultural mediation and heritage education office of the Regional Museums Directorate are planned, as well as initiatives organized by the museum’s management and staff.

“The museum is a laboratory of experience, a place of learning, a space for exchange and relationships in which to experiment, starting with new ways of inhabiting the museum, curiosity and the pleasure of knowledge, to solicit all our sensory, intellectual, intuitive and emotional capacities,” commented Patrizia Cirino, head of the cultural mediation and heritage education office of the Emilia-Romagna National Museums Regional Directorate. “For these reasons, we have developed a series of workshops that can foster new possibilities of exchange and sharing between the museum’s object heritage and participants, capable of implementing forms of imaginative and emotional expressiveness. The goal is to invite audiences to inhabit the museum space in another way with a more participatory attitude.”

Sarsina's National Archaeological Museum will close 10 months to reduce seismic vulnerability

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