Cityscapes and Urban Culture - Contextualizing Pompeii in the Roman World on 22 and 23 September at the Auditorium degli scavi di Pompei. download pdf …Read more

On 30 September and 1 October 2019 the Museo Egizio will organize the conference “Human Remains. Ethics, Conservation, Display”. This event is a follow-up of like-themed conference organised in Pompeii and Naples in May 2019, at which many questions were raised regarding the study, conservation and display of human remains (http://www.humanremains.org). Like the previous event, the Turin conference intends to address these issues, but with a particular focus on mummies, given the nature of the Egyptian Museum's collection. In full awareness of the fact that there is no single answer to the question about the acceptability or otherwise of the display of human remains, and that a variety of exhibition strategies have been adopted by different institutions on the international scene, these study days are intended to give voice to the broad range of approaches to such a delicate issue. An openness to disciplines outside Egyptology is an indispensable prerequisite for the debate about the display of human remains. Hence the desire to involve physical and cultural anthropologists, biologists, restorers, sociologists, museum curators and operators, forensic doctors and paleopathologists. …Read more

"Human Remains. Ethics, Conservation, Display" is the first Italian meeting focuses on human remains as sensible material. We will talk about ethical issues, conservation, care and the difficulties for display. The Congress will take place at the Archaeological Park of Pompeii (Via Plinio 4) on the 20th May, and in San Marcellino (Largo San Marcellino 10, Naples) on the 21st of May, 2019. …Read more

The project Smart@POMPEI comes alive and turns into SMART@LAND Technological and social innovation to develop a more resilient attitude in the Campania territory. Pompeii is getting to the heart of its activity, which aims to carry out the pilot project Smart@Pompei, and is further extending its objectives of technological and cultural innovation to the whole regional territory …Read more

Pompeii, San Paolino Building (Via Plinio 4). Enzo Lippolis, a tenured full professor of Archaeology at the University La Sapienza in Rome where he was Director of the Department of Sciences of Antiquity, passed away suddenly on 3rd March 2018. It has been a great loss for the archaeological field and the entire Italian cultural world. Four months after his death, the Archaeological Park of Pompei …Read more

Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II (Convention Centre, Via Partenope 36) Enzo Lippolis, a tenured full professor of Archaeology at the University La Sapienza in Rome where he was Director of the Department of Sciences of Antiquity, passed away suddenly on 3rd March 2018. It has been a great loss for the archaeological field and the entire Italian cultural world. Four months after his dea …Read more

THE UNESCO HERITAGE SITES OF POMPEII, HERCULANEUM, TORRE ANNUNZIATA with GERONIMO STILTON Geronimo Stilton, the most popular mouse-journalist amongst children all over the world, will be the celebrity ‘spokesperson’ for the educational project aimed at the young citizens of the area of the UNESCO sites Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Torre Annunziata. The project is carried out in cooperation with the P …Read more

Study project carried out by the Archaeological Park of Pompeii and the Agricultural Department of the University Federico II of Naples. Presentation of the research results VILLA SILVANA – 6th JUNE AT 5pm (Via Nicola de Prisco 15, Boscoreale) …Read more

2018 has been designated the “European Year of Cultural Heritage”. A year dedicated to celebrations, but also to reflections and national debates, carried out at a national level, on the value that cultural heritage holds for our society, and the different sectors of public and private life. …Read more

The exhibition Pompeii@Madre. Archaeological Matter, curated by Massimo Osanna and Andrea Viliani, was opened on Saturday 18th November 2017. Among the guests were Dario Franceschini Minister of Cultural Heritage and Activities, and Vincenzo De Luca President of the Campania Region. Also in attendance were Massimo Osanna the Director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, Andrea Viliani the Direct …Read more