Was it because of our archaeological attitude, less sympathetic towards innovation or our perception of time, whose frantic flowing turns into stratification, slowdown and memory, that we have to wait for our website until 2022? Eventually we made available to our audience a useful tool to find information about the visit, the collections, the artworks and the story of the first public museum in Venice, settled on St. Mark’s Square since 1596. We are proud to present the official website of the Archaeological Museum of Venice, which was one of our goals to implement our activity of promotion and publicity. Our aim is not only to give information and descriptions about the collections but also to use the site for our and your considerations as we renovated the former blog of the museum in order to offer a space – we should rather call it agorà, or maybe better, with the Venetian word “campo”? – which is meant to be a meeting point with our followers and enhanced with supplementary analysis to tell the life  and the latest news of the museum.

We have the ambition to keep in touch, as we already do on our social media accounts,in this virtual interraction space with all of the archaeology and Venice enthusiasts.

We have chosen the metaphor of the journey for the page because is strictly connected to our nature and history. To read our page is to travel through an ideal map of the Mediterranean sites where some of the most important civilizations have grown, and also to be oriented in the overlapping of different times because the museum is not only the shore, the arrival point of a far away past that we experience in the antiquities but also of a recent past we find in the subsequent stories of the merchants, collectors and artists. Besides the museum is also the manifestation of the current time with the responsibility of the cultural heritage to be protected and made available.

So that you are invited to keep in mind our slogan: every object is a journey! Let’s start to discover our page and let our suggestions and thoughts arouse your curiosity.

LT

Photo credits Luca Trolese