Università Roma Tre

The course is divided in two parts: the first (A), consisting of lectures, addresses the theme of the museum from the historical and critical point of view. Here we follow the story from private collectors in XV century, arriving to the eighteenth century declination of the museum as a public place and to the creation of the nineteenth-century museums in European capitals, until we get to some significant experiences of contemporaneity. The transformations of the exhibition and museum culture are analyzed by reading the form and content as the result of the meeting between architecture and art history, conservation and critics.
Specific study is dedicated to the history of the relationship between private collections, museums and city and local context in Rome between the XV and XIX centuries and the Italian museum culture of the first fifty years of the XX century.
The second part (B) of the course is dedicated to site inspections in exhibitions and museums in Rome, as well as seminars with professionals - art historians, architects, archaeologists - engaged in the design of equipment and in the direction of museums.
During the course you will be given a bibliography for further study of the topics covered in lectures and site inspections.

• M.T. Fiorio, Il museo nella storia. Dallo studiolo alla raccolta pubblica, Mondadori, Milano-Torino 2011.
• Lecture notes supplemented by images delivered in PDF.

Students who do not attend will integrate the program with the following texts:

• M. Dalai Emiliani, Per una critica della museografia del Novecento in Italia: il "saper mostrare" di Carlo Scarpa, Venezia 2008.
• F. Antinucci, Comunicare nel museo, Laterza, Bari 2004
• S. Cecchini, Musei e mostre d’arte negli anni Trenta: l’Italia e la cooperazione internazionale, in Snodi di critica. Tra musei, mostre, restauri, storia delle tecniche e della diagnostica artistica in Italia (1930 – 1940), a cura di M. I. Catalano, Gangemi, Roma 2014, pp. 57-107.