Last appointment with the cycle of conferences organized by the Barumini Foundation cultural system at the Giovanni Lilliu Center. Friday 24 March, from 5.15 pm, the meeting is with Georgia Toreno, Maura Mereu and Maria Giovanna Perrottu with the conference entitled “From the excavation to the museum. The activities of the Barumini restoration laboratory”.
Just Barumini returns, therefore, to the center of the spotlight to round off the series of appointments that started on 4 February with the first day dedicated to the "Olla ad Orlo" and the National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari. The long journey made it possible to face at 360 degrees the many aspects that revolve around archeology, the defense and protection of the island's identity assets, as well as deepening the themes related to the conservation and promotion of the beauties of Sardinian history.
All appointments, open to the free participation of all interested parties, have been included in the training course for the Foundation's personnel.
Closing the calendar of meetings is, therefore, the activity linked to the restoration laboratory. For the occasion, the experts will focus their reports on the laboratory's activities which represent a virtuous process that allows the fragments recovered during the excavations to be returned to their original form.
The restoration center, as underlined by Gianfranca Salis, coordinator of the functional area of the Archaeological Heritage of the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of Cagliari "has allowed the recovery of important contexts from recent excavations but, also, to initiate processes of museum display of finds that had been recovered a few years ago". Old and new excavations, in contexts coming from the area under the jurisdiction of the Superintendency, have been re-examined and reassembled and, some, even already launched for exhibition, "giving back to the community the precious information that allows to reconstruct the life of the sites and identify the period and history of their use".
These are bronze, stone and terracotta objects that require highly specialized treatments and specific professionalism that the Barumini Restoration Center offers to archeology, becoming a point of reference and a fundamental tool for the protection activity of the Superintendency.
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