The study, understanding, and popularisation of the historical development and the reciprocal relationships between the different cultures that make up our complex society are today more necessary than ever. These tasks, subject to constant updating from a methodological and practical point of view, are at the centre of the action of major ethnographic museums at an international level. Italy joined in 2016, with the establishment of the MuCiv - Museum of Civilisations. The museum was born from the integration of several important collections previously belonging to independent museums, namely: the “Luigi Pigorini” Museum of Prehistoric Ethnography; the museum of popular arts and traditions “Lamberto Loria”; the “Alessandra Vaccaro” museum of the early Middle Ages; the “Giuseppe Tucci” oriental art museum and the soon to be established “Ilaria Alpi” Italian African Museum (former Colonial Museum). The goal of the thesis project is to formulate a design hypothesis that allows a better function for the collections and spaces that today house the MuCiv.
Type | Exhibit - Thesis Project
Year | 2021
Location | Rome, Italy
Construction | 740 m²
Supervisors | Alessandro Casadei & Mattia Darò
Museo della civiltà | Designed by Luigi Brusa, Gino Cancellotti, Eugenio Montuori, Alfredo Scalpelli & Marcello Piacentini.
Italian Colonial past it is made of unrecognized and uncomfortable memories. This museum exhibition tries to re process the forgotten and lost imaginary of the other African from a new perspective. To remove means to take something away from its occupied position and this is what happen within most of the museum collection. Recontextualized the role of the museum is fundamental in order gave to the visitor a realistic vision about the past and the contemporary scenario. The perforated metal structure stand as a representation of an existing past that was forgotten but yet exist.
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It consists on a repetition of stell barrel vault, a classical architecture element that resembles the predominant context of the museum and the city itself. The exhibition space will offer to the visitors the chance to be engaged into the voyage of memory, building their own story and identity linking past events to contemporary scenarious.
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