Italian jewels from 4,000 BC to the Middle Ages: a traveling exhibition starts from the Museum of Sassari

A journey of five millennia in the treasures of Sardinia, Campania, Calabria, Molise, Marche, Puglia and Basilicata. There are 400 pieces from some of the museums in Southern Italy and the Pompeii Archaeological Park. Gathered in the Museum “G. Sanna” in Sassari from which the journey of the traveling exhibition “The shape of gold. Stories of jewels from Ancient Italy” curated by Massimo Osanna, director of the National Directorate of Museums, and Luana Toniolo, who has just left the regional directorate of Sardinia. The two curators were present this morning at the opening of the exhibition in the museum directed by Elisabetta Grassi.

«This project which involved seven regional directorates - highlighted Osanna and Toniolo - allows us to show how the National Museum System can protect and enhance our heritage, which for 90% is still in deposits. Several pieces of this exhibition have been recovered and restored».

Some examples. They range from the bracelet made from a shell of the Middle Neolithic (4.900-4.400 BC) found in the Grotta Bariles of Ozieri to the headgear with plates made from the tusks of the Nola boar, from the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC, from the female portrait in Basanite (1st century AD) from the Calabrian museum of Vibo Valentia to the finds from the Pompeii archaeological park, combined with the fiberglass cast of a girl made forty years ago.

The exhibition will be open until December.

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