Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Altino
 National Archaeological Museum Altino, 2016 |
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| place | Via S. Eliodoro, 56, Quarto d'Altino 
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Archaeological Museum
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| opening | 1960 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 10,000 |
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Veneto region
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| management |
Marianna Bressan
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The Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Altino ( MANA ) is a museum in Altino near Venice in the Veneto region in northeastern Italy, the ancient Altinum . The museum presents the space between Chioggia in the south of the Venice lagoon and Concordia Sagittaria in the northeast. It is important for the history of the Venetians as well as for Roman and pre- Venetian history.
history
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The museum opened on May 29, 1960 in two rooms, one of which served as an exhibition space and the other as a magazine. Until then, the number and, above all, the yields of the excavations in the area in question under the leadership of the Soprintendenza Archeologica were extremely low. Conte Angelo Bacchini delle Palme donated the land on which the museum was built to the state. Bruna Forlati Tamaro, who later became the soprintendent , directed the start of construction . As early as the 19th century, numerous artefacts had come to light as a result of bonuses, but systematic excavations only began under the direction of Jacopo Marcello. Annual campaigns led to major discoveries such as an extensive imperial necropolis .
From 1966 on, numerous excavations were carried out in the area of Via Annia ; this includes over 2000 finds from graves and burial places, in recent years the excavations in Altinum. The first pre-Roman graves were added in the course of the 1970s.
When the museum was founded, it had fewer than a thousand objects, an inventory that was growing rapidly. At times, some of the monuments had to be exhibited in the garden of the house, until an adequate museum operation was no longer possible. There was also a lack of space for restoration, cataloging, making reproductions and photographs. In 2015 there were already 55,000 cataloged finds, to which several thousand are added every year.
In 1984, in view of the increasing number of finds, but also the unexpected importance of the city, two spacious rural commercial buildings from the 19th century were acquired, some 500 m from the museum. At first it was assumed that the complex was outside the excavation zone or outside the ancient Altinum, but it turned out that a cult site had existed below the site, dating from the 6th century BC. Was in use until the Imperial Era. The excavations, which lasted from 1997 to 2011, fundamentally changed the image of the prehistoric cultural landscape.
The objects in storage and on display are found objects from the archaeological area of Altino, in the middle of which the museum is located. To parts of the collection, such as B. inscriptions, steles or Venetian glass are archaeological individual investigations or special exhibitions have been organized.
Archaeologist Margherita Tirelli was director from 1987 to 2014, succeeding the archaeologist Michele Tombolani (1943–1989). Until 2014 the new house had an exhibition area of 1800 m².
For the growing number of objects, the museum experienced the aforementioned expansion, two additionally acquired buildings were restored and supplemented by modern new buildings. The new museum area was inaugurated at the end of 2014 and started operations in 2015. The accepts prehistory with the early history of a the ground, the Roman Altinum is the first floor, the findings from the cemetery and the second late antiquity. The upper floors only contain finds from the town of Altinum, which begin with the Romanization, while the ground floor represents a larger area in order to gain an overview of the eras since the Mesolithic . The transition from Preistoria to Protostoria , i.e. from prehistory to early history with the first written sources, is set very early, namely at the transition from the Bronze to the Iron Age, i.e. in the 10th / 9th centuries. Century BC Chr.
literature
- Margherita Tirelli: Il Museo Archeologico Nazionale e le aree archeologiche di Altino. Padova 1993.
- Margherita Tirelli (Ed.): Altino. Museo archeologico nazionale di Altino. Regione del Veneto, Venezia 2013.
- Stefano Filippi, Margherita Tirelli: Il nuovo museo archeologico nazionale di Altino , in: Vincenzo Tiné, Loretta Zega (ed.): Archeomusei. Musei archeologici in Italia. 2001-2011. Atti del Convegno (Adria, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, 21-22 giugno 2012) , All'Insegna del Giglio, Florence 2013, pp. 36-39.
Web links
- Museum website
- Museum on the website of the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Veneto
- bibliography
- Literature from and about Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Altino in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Remarks
- ↑ Stefano Filippi, Margherita Tirelli: Il nuovo museo archeologico nazionale di Altino , in: Vincenzo Tiné, Loretta Zega (ed.): Archeomusei. Musei archeologici in Italia. 2001-2011. Atti del Convegno (Adria, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, 21-22 giugno 2012) , All'Insegna del Giglio, Florence 2013, pp. 36–39, here: p. 36.
- ↑ cf. Also section research in the article Altinum, there also further literature on the area of discovery of the collection
- ↑ Andrea Ninfo, Alessandro Fontana, Paolo Mozzi, Francesco Ferrarese: The Map of Altinum, Ancestor of Venice , in: Science 325,5940 (2009) 577.
- ↑ Alfredo Buonopane, Giovannella Cresci Marrone, Margherita Tirelli: Edizione delle iscrizioni latine del Museo archeologico nazionale di Altino.
- ^ Margherita Tirelli (Ed.): Riflessi di vetro da Altino a Venezia. Vetri romani dal Museo archeologico nazionale di Altino. Cassa di Risparmio di Venezia, Venezia 2006.
- ^ Rosa Barovier Mentasti, Margherita Tirelli: Altino. Glass of the Venetian Lagoon. Vianello libri, Ponzano Veneto 2010, ISBN 978-88-7200-336-7 . (Exhibition catalog, Museo archeologico nazionale, Altino, 2010).
- ^ Museo Archeologico Nazionale e Area Archeologica di Altino. In: beniculturali.it. Retrieved November 20, 2019 (Italian).