巴里大教堂教区博物馆翻新记

First and foundational requirement was to schedule a museum flexible, elastic in accepting the activities of future enjoyment. The objective is therefore to reorganize the museum giving greater usability and visibility to works already on site. The project is to provide the museum with two large exhibition halls, rearrange a room for the Exultet, equip the museum with an air conditioning system and organize two meeting rooms and insights of didactic character with virtual reconstruction in such a way as to bring the works in original context to which they belong. Within the extension project of the Diocesan Museum of the Cathedral of Bari is expected to set up a section dedicated to works of the Cathedral and a sector for the artefacts from the churches in the Archdiocese of Bari-Bitonto. The preparation will aim to reformulate the criteria and the procedures for the enjoyment of the Museum of the Cathedral of Bari by teaching tools and virtual reconstructions that make accessible, at many different levels of understanding, the works exhibited reducing them in their original context. In fact, for a correct approach to the artistic artefacts, differentiated according to the age and the degree of knowledge of the users, the museum will become a meeting place for cultural projects. The drafting of new educational panels, the development of systems of guided tour through walkman, the working out of communicative formulas in the form of workshops and educational games intended to schools and children, along with the application of modern technologies will make more accessible the exhibited works.

The adaptation and extension of the Museum allows the possibility of a rearrangement of the entire Museum in a homogeneous vision, adapting it to the new functions, through a supplied and adaptation of technological systems and a museum organization which corresponds to a path targeted to the knowledge of the historical evolution of the Cathedral of Bari. It was then reorganized and designed the presentation of all the material according to a chronological path from the high Middle Ages to the work of restoration of the Cathedral.

Year 2015

Work started in 2012

Work finished in 2015

Client Arcidiocesi di Bari-Bitonto

Contractor Valore Restauri s.r.l. – Nardò (LE) / Campanelli Vitangelo – Valenzano (Ba)

Status Completed works

Type Museums / Interior Design / Lighting Design / Recovery/Restoration of Historic Buildings