The Villanovan necropolis Benacci. History of an archaeological research
19 September 1996 - 2 February 1997
By Museo Archeologico di Bologna
Information: Archaeological Museum of Bologna: phone +39 051 233849; fax  +39 051 266516
E-mail mca@comune.bologna.it

The painter Pelagio Palagi
5 October 1996 - 6 January 1997
By Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Musei Civici d'Arte Antica, with Biblioteca Comunale,
Archiginnasio, Museo Archeologico di Bologna.

Gli Arcangeli
11 May - 22 June1997
By Regione Emilia Romagna - Istituto per i Beni Culturali - Soprintendenza per i Beni Librari -
Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna - Fondazione Tito Balestra di Longiano - Fondazione
Gaetano Arcangeli di Bologna
Information: phone +39051217411 - 226610; fax+39051232599 - 234170

Fantasmi erotici della strada. Mezzo secolo di affissi cinematografici italiani
1 July - 3 August 1997; 2-28 September 1997
By Cineteca di Bologna - Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna - Mostra Internazionale del
Cinema Libero - Il Cinema ritrovato
Information: Cineteca (Gianluca Farinelli): phone+39 051237088 - 228975; fax +39 051261680

Il fanciullo di vetro. Petr Il'ic Cajkovskij a San Pietroburgo
9 November 1997 - 11 January 1998
By Regione Emilia Romagna - Istituto per i Beni Culturali - Soprintendenza per i Beni Librari -
Teatro Comunale - Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna
Information: Teatro Comunale  phone +39 051529946; fax +39 051529945

The Ancient Hungarians

21 February 1998 - 26 April 1998 By Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna and Consorzio Universita'- Citta' di Bologna Information: Archaeological Museum of Bologna: +39 051233849; fax +39 051266516; E-mail mca@comune.bologna.it The exihibition is still open on this web site. Click here to enter!!!

Chi è di scena? Baracche, burattini  marionette dalle collezioni museali emiliano-romagnole
9 October 1999 - 28 November 1999
Archaeological Museum of Bologna
By Regione Emilia Romagna - Istituto per i Beni Culturali - Soprintendenza per i Beni Librari

Vetri antichi. Arte e tecnica
27 October 1998 - 5 March 2000
By the Archaeological Civic Museum
Information: Archaeological Civic Museum of Bologna
phone +39 051 233849; fax  +39 051 266516
e-mail mca@comune.bologna.it

The exhibition proposes to illustrate, through a considerable choice of 260 artefacts belonging to Bolognese collections, the artistic and technological specimens of ancient glass production, starting from the rare testimony of pharaonic Egypt (from the 14th century B.C.). Through a selection of objects of the Etruscan and Celtic civilisations (from the 9th to the 2nd century B.C.) we finally reach the manifold and copious documentation of the Roman period (end of the 1st century B.C. ? 4th century A.D.), to which we owe the introduction of the new glass-blowing technique, halfway through the 1st century A.D. in the Siro-Palestinian area. Necklaces featuring multicoloured glass beads, bronze fibulas with bead-decorated arcs, fusaroles, small vases created according to the core technique, bracelets coming from Bolognese, Etruscan and Celtic necroplis, are the most ancient local evidence. To these we can add a selection of ornamental and useful objects coming from the Egyptian (bracelets, rings, scarabs, amulets) and Roman collections. One can admire engraved gems, ointment pots, goblets, jugs, bottles, glasses, golden bowls, created with precious decorations and a variety of colours made possible by the revolutionary glass-blowing technique introduced during the Augustan era in the ever more numerous workshops of the Roman Empire.  Finally, the Fatimid tokens bearing the name of the ruling caliph (10th-12th century) - never before placed on exhibit - brings this parade through 26 centuries of history of ancient glass to an end. The magnificent panel in cameo glass representing the encounter of Dionysus and Ariadne, from Fabio Rufoís ìDomus Pompeianaî, exceptionally granted on loan by the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, enriches and completes the exhibition, thus documenting a complex and refined technique, that is not present in the Bolognese collection.

Enemy Images. The Spanish Civil War and Its Representations
(1936-1939)

December 10^th 1999 - February 13^th 2000
By the Institute for the Artistic, Cultural and Natural Heritageof the Emilia Romagna Region.

The exhibition, organised by the Institute for the Artistic, Cultural and Natural Heritage of the Emilia Romagna Region, in co-operation with various Italian and foreign cultural institutions, proposes a panorama dedicated to the representation of the Spanish Civil War in art, propaganda, photography, cinema and mass media.

Duecento.
Forms and Colours of the Middle Ages in Bologna

April 15^th - July 15^th 2000
By Musei Civici di Arte Antica

The great exhibition "Duecento" gives a record of an exceptional historical period for Bologna: during the 13th century, the city, with its fifty thousand houses and two thousand students, was among the largest cities in Europe. The exhibition gets together, for the first time, more than 140 works of art given by scores of institutions throughout the world (P. Getty Museum, the Escurial, the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the British Library in London) and from Bologna churches, museum and collections.

The exhibition proposes to evoke a period of Etruscan history, included between the end of the 8th and the beginning of the 6th century B.C., known as ìOrientalisingî, characterised by the extraordinary growth of the aristocracies and the spreading, in the Mediterranean basin, of materials, decorative motifs and ideologies coming from the Near East. The archaeological material on exhibit will include precious objects in bronze, gold, silver, and ivory coming from some of the most important Etruscan tombs, conserved in more than 50 Italian and foreign museums (among which Florence, Rome, London, Athens, Cyprus,  which have exceptionally granted them on loan. The exhibitís setting will feature the life-size reconstruction of tombs and splendid residences, which will allow the visitor to ideally arrange the objects in the places they belong to.

Ezio Bassani, great scholar of African Art, expresses his vow to give an idea of perfection, of originality and variety of Black Africa sculpture in the introduction to the catalogue of his collection. The collection is made of objects coming from Sub-Saharan Africa – the so called Black Africa – recently acquired by the Milan municipality and promptely exhibited (2000). Beside the Bassani's collection, the exhibition in Bologna put in display loaned objects by Italian Museums, in order to go deeper inside the history of African Art object collecting. This fashion involved prices, merchants and intellectuals overall Europe from the 16th and 18th century and the exhibition gives a particular prominence to the African Art object collecting among the aristocratic courts in Emilia-Romagna. This exhibition concerning Black Africa and the relations between European and this far and fascinating country is going to be an occasion to face with the discovery of a different cultural world, a sensational topic of our days.

The Archaeological Museum of Bologna guests a rich exhibition dedicated to the history of children forniture in Italy. The exhibition is organized by Art'è, an art and culture society, who deal with educational method of art teaching. The route of the exhibition covers the most important steps of conceiving, production and market of children forniture in Italy from the end of the 19th century to the Seventies of the 20th century, a period of time during which the Italian design was very creative.

Architecture always expresses values, even when it appears to be simple a pratical solution to a specific plannin or housing problem. The project "Markitecture, value in architecture", sponsored by BolognaFiere, Cersaie and Saie, provides an international overview of the culture of building and the ethics of creation, at the heart of which the aesthetic dimension is always bound to emerge.

The Municipality of Bologna together with Provincia di Bologna, Emilia-Romagna Region, Bologna Modern Art Gallery and the Archaeological Museum of Bologna presents a great exhibition of the work of Pirro Cuniberti, one of the most important artists of the contemporary art. The exhibition show more than 200 works, diplayed in three different sections: from 1948 to 1960, from 1960 to 1970 and the last one from 1970 to 2003. Catalogue: Claudio Cerritelli and Dario Trento eds.: italian and english version(with text of Alessandro Bergonzoni, Stefano Benni, Andrea Emiliani, Tullio Pericoli, Roberto Roversi). Charta Editions , Milano.

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