The Museo Archeologico Nazionale of Cagliari is inaugurating the international exhibition Civilizations and the Mediterranean, on Thursday, 14 February at 17,30. The event is promoted by the Autonomous Region of Sardina, MiBAC – Polo Museale of Sardinia/Museo Archeologico Nazionale of Cagliari, Civic Museums of Cagliari, Sardinian Foundation, and The State Hermitage Museum.
A glance that wanders from Sardinia to the Mediterranean civilizations. The beginning of history told through intertwining, confrontations, and dialogues, from the Mare Nostrum basin to the Caucasus mountains.
A collection of over 550 relics spread between the archaeological Museum and the City Palace is the core of the exhibition project The Civilizations and the Mediterranean, curated by Yuri Piotrovsky from The State Hermitage Museum, Manfred Nawroth from the Pre and Early History-National Museum of Berlin, and with the scientific revision of Carlo Lugliè from the University of Cagliari, and the Museo Archeologico Nazionale of Cagliari.
The focal point of the exhibition is dedicated to the Sardinian Pre-History archaeology with almost 120 pieces representative of the national Museums of Cagliari, Porto Torres, and Nuoro, from the Neolithic cultures to mid first millennium b.C. The other relics represent different areas of the Mediterranean and the Caucasus, within the same time frame, and originated from big archaeological museums close by location or with similar collections such as, the Museo Archeologico Nazionale of Naples, the Bardo Museum of Tunis, the Archeaological Museum of Salonicco, the Berlin Museum, and The State Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg.
It will be a fascinating international cultural event that will document the strong relationships and the contaminations that succeeded in the Mediterranean basin, a place not so closed in but in continuous evolution.
The exhibit, organized by Global International Village, and prepared by Angelo Figus, is a journey through time, space, and civilizations history woven in that Mare Nostrum, primordial source, and place full of culture, art, and knowledge.
