The Museum of Mediterranean Archeology
A journey of nearly 6,000 years in the Middle East and the Mediterranean. These collections reveal the Eastern and Mediterranean worlds. From the shores of the Euphrates Tiger and from the Greek shores to Roman Italy and the most emblematic islands of the Mediterranean Sea, the route draws the contours of an ancient history on a daily basis. Mythical unsung or caricatured civilizations, advanced cultures and lifestyles, and inventions of great human significance have sprung up in this geographic part of the world. Technical advances and know-how still in use today have been acquired and developed, still in this unique and complex area. How do you connect so many objects, whether refined or in everyday, unusual or mundane use?
How do you turn all these objects into witnesses, understand them better, appreciate their value and be able to admire them accurately?
Stops explaining the various skills, inventions of writing, glassware, ceramic decorations, the subtle use of pigments and colors, the formulation of copper alloys punctuate and enhance this discovery trip. Thus, it is possible to consider not only the technical and artistic history of the object, but also to contextualize it, to socialize it to better understand the needs, rules and constraints of the craftsmen, technicians or artists who made it. Over the centuries, the beliefs and the fervor that animated these women and men have mingled, superimposed, separated, sometimes always with the hope of moving forward and progressing to better live in a group, a city, in a society… The new discourse is obviously scientific but also sociological and unifying. He will try to highlight the permanence and creative force of the peoples and civilizations bordering the Mediterranean and to show the innovative role of the near eastern civilizations, between tiger and Euphrates at this time.
Thanks to bright frescoes by Pico projectors, objects will find their original polychromy. Techniques and know-how will be reproduced in carefully produced films or projections. Of course, the other conventional signage elements such as texts and section panels, geographical maps, notices, cartels will be updated according to new discoveries or archeological hypotheses. Thus lightened by a few dozen redundant objects, the Near East, Mediterranean basin department will be able to read each other in a thematic, geographical and chronological way, at the choice of the path and the reflection of each.