By popular demand, Nuragica, the special edition of the exhibition-story on the Sardinian civilization extends its stay at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples and will be open until next November 6. The great immersive itinerary, set up since 11 June in the halls of one of the most prestigious Italian museums, has made its way into the general public of the MANN, making them discover one of the most significant civilizations of prehistory in the western Mediterranean. A bet won by the Director Paolo Giulierini who wanted to accompany the exhibition of the finds proposed by the international exhibition "Sardinia Megalithic Island" with a project with an innovative language capable of addressing any category of people: from the enthusiast who seeks historically correct information to the tourist looking for a first level of knowledge of the subject.
MANN. “In the case of the Sardegna Isola Megalitica exhibition, the meeting with Nuragica was fundamental because it filled and integrated all those elements that the exhibition alone, despite having a high profile set-up, was unable to convey”, clarifies the director. “Nuragica had this effect: to make people understand what we exhibited with archaeological objects. The public was enthusiastic ”is Giulierini's comment. "We are convinced that the relationship with Nuragica and its methodology can be replicated in other areas of the museum and there will be opportunities to study together a specific project for other cultural offerings that can go from Magna Graecia to Pompeii".
VISITORS. In the first 3 months of opening, thousands of visitors of all ages and from all over the world decided to spend an hour of their time inside the Sardinian civilization experience. “A fantastic taste of Sardinian history in the Neapolitan territory” defined it by a Neapolitan visitor. “The MANN dresses in the future and has given us intense frames of our past” and then again “The guide accompanied us to a wonderful land that we almost had the sensation of really stepping on with our feet. It is this infinite baggage of beauty, this heritage that makes me proud to be Italian ”comments another.
NURAGIC. Pride is also what the creators of Nuragica feel, Paolo Alberto Pinna and Maria Carmela Solinas of the Sardinia Experience Cooperative who in 2017 gave life to the tourist-cultural format and who after a long tour on the island decided to consolidate the project by inaugurating a Cagliari in via Roma the first Museum Experience dedicated to the history of Nuragic Sardinia and at the same time landing in Naples in June with a special edition of Nuragica at the request of the National Archaeological Museum MANN. A great organizational effort that found support in the great tenacity and passion of his team. Dedication that is perceived as soon as you cross the threshold of the exhibition. “Don't call it an exhibition. But a succession of surprises and emotions that reveal an unexpected story to be experienced in one breath ”the curators are keen to specify.
THE EXHIBITION. Nuragica is designed precisely to catapult the visitor a thousand years before the foundation of Rome and experience a real journey through time like an explorer. The added value of the format is the storytelling that accompanies the visitor through evocative settings and reconstructions that tell a synthesis of the island's archaeological heritage and a land that 3500 years ago gave birth to, an advanced society capable of building 10,000 stone towers as high as palaces of today, to interpret metallurgy as skilled artists but also to give life to the first monumental statuary of our West ”explains Paolo Alberto Pinna. “And as time passes, the visitor also meets the protagonists: men and women who already represented examples of advanced sociality with well-defined social roles and community models unusually close to ours”. What emerges to visitors at the end of the journey is an unprecedented and unexpected picture.
COMMENTS. Among the 120 thousand visitors registered at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples in the first three months of the summer, many are foreigners and often completely ignorant of Italian history. “It was essential to unite the pieces of the history of the nuragic civilization that I had not understood by visiting the sites of the island” wrote one of them in the guest book. “We had only heard of the nuraghi; this fascinating journey is a business card that convinced us to visit, experience and admire those places firsthand ". Says another. "Many know Sardinia for the fame of the sea, others for its traditions but practically no one has an idea of the main features of this page of history" confirm the curators of the exhibition who in recent months have presided over the exhibition to cope with the numerous requests for further information. There was also a comparison with Americans and Orientals: “They had never even heard of Sardinia, much less the Nuragic or Sardinian civilization. They found themselves faced with a new theme and learning experience that impressed them so much that they tell us “My next vacation will be in Sardinia”.
