EUROPEAN ARCHAEOLOGY DAYS
Meetings, workshops and thematic visits

June 17-18, 2022
PALACE OF CULTURE
MONUMENTAL COMPLEX BORBONI PRISON

The European Days of Archeology are back from 17 to 19 June. Several museums and archaeological sites, from the North to the South of the country, offer dedicated initiatives to celebrate the role and importance of archeology and archaeologists in our present.
The initiative, coordinated at European level by the French National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research, is promoted in Italy by the Ministry of Culture – General Directorate for Museums.
The Irpino Museum also adheres to these days and, to celebrate archeology, organizes two days of meetings with archaeologists, educational workshops for children, visits and thematic insights. The protagonist of these activities will be Irpinia, our area where archaeological research has begun
in the 1950s, it continues today with new important discoveries. From the Starza di Ariano Irpino to the necropolis of Madonna delle Grazie di Mirabella Eclano, from Cairano and Calitri passing through the Valle d’Ansanto of Rocca San Felice, from the ancient Aeclanum to Abellinum, the entire Irpinia area has returned traces of the Earth’s past di Mezzo, archaeological remains ranging from Prehistory to the Late Roman age, and which continue to resurface even today.
Casket of these treasures is the Irpino Museum, which, in these days, will become a place of celebration of archaeological research in Irpinia!
But we will not only talk about Irpinia! Campania is a land of archeology: remains of ancient cities and finds of all types and dates are present throughout the territory! And to discover curiosities and details of daily life, private and public, of about two thousand years ago, we will listen to what “the walls of Pompeii and Herculaneum tell”, two discoveries that have made the history of archeology, not just the bell, a forge of new discoveries and fascinating interpretations of the signs and traces of a mythical past.

PROGRAM

Palace of Culture

FRIDAY 17
10.00 – 12.00

Archaeological excavation laboratory
DETECTIVE OF THE PAST
After a brief introduction to the world of archeology, its methods of study and interpretation of archaeological evidence, we will move on to the simulation of a real archaeological excavation in search of traces of the past!

Recommended age 6 – 10 years
Max 10 participants
Reservation required

17.30 – 18.30
AN “ARCHAEOLOGICAL” CHAT
AECLANUM AND HIRPINIA AT THE END OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
Girolamo Ferdinando De Simone – Ben Russell
The archaeologist G.F. De Simone will show, through the archaeological discoveries of recent years, how Aeclanum has changed over time, overcoming an earthquake and an eruption, in the last phase of the Roman age.

Bourbon Prison Monumental Complex

SATURDAY 18
10.00 – 12.00
Rock painting workshop
TRACES OF COLOR
Rock paintings are the oldest form of art made by man and survived to the present day. They were made on the walls of the caves and represented handprints, animals and hunting scenes. Our young visitors have the task of transforming themselves into “cave painters”.

Recommended age 6 – 10 years
Max 15 participants
Reservation required

17.00 – 19.00
Auditorium (blue room)
Meeting / Conference
THE WALLS TELL. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE IN HERCULANEUM AND POMPEII
On the occasion of the closing of the social year of the Accademia dei Dogliosi of Avellino in collaboration with the Archeoclub of Avellino and the University of Free Time, the archaeologist Francesco Paolo Maulucci, author of the book “The walls tell. Signs and drawings from ancient Pompeii “, published by Delta3, will tell the story of public and private life in Herculaneum and Pompei.rpino.

For information
info@museoirpino.it
0825 790733 – 790734