Restaurare e trasmettere la memoria: l’esperienza del Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia

Restoring and transmitting memory: the experience of the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia In 2016, after being included among the institutes with special scientific and administrative autonomy, the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia began a new journey in its long history. Since its transformation into a Museum in 1889, Villa Giulia, by the strenuous will of its founder, Felice Barnabei, became a fundamental museographic reference point and a place of experimentation for new conservation and enhancement techniques, as demonstrated by the careful restoration of the famous Sarcophagus of the Spouses and the even more extraordinary – and, for the time, futuristic – full-scale reconstruction of the Etruscan-Italic temple of Alatri. In recent years, the Museum has worked hard to promote knowledge of its origins and at the same time to look to the future, experimenting with new ways of preserving and communicating its collections in order to make them increasingly understandable and accessible to all: from the innovative integrative support for the Dinos of Exekias to the consolidation and technological renewal of the Temple of Alatri, from the ‘open’ restoration of the Latona of Portonaccio to the creation of multimedia insights on its social channels with the aim of promoting knowledge of the main restoration initiatives and raising awareness among the general public about the secrets and peculiarities of this fundamental work.