Saturday 4 March 2023 at 12.00 pm exhibition inauguration at the “Sebastiano Tusa” Civic Museum in Procida.
As part of the “Living in the Volcano” Exhibition, the “Black Gold of the Mediterranean” exhibition will be inaugurated on Saturday 4 March at 12.00:XNUMX at the “Sebastiano Tusa” Civic Museum in Procida.
The exhibition retraces the fundamental stages of Obsidian in the Mediterranean and the notable importance that this precious volcanic glass had in the socio-economic and cultural development of Sicily, Campania and ancient Sardinia and, more generally, in the formation of Western culture.
The informative exhibition “Black Gold of the Mediterranean” curated by Franco Foresta Martin, Licia Corsale and Anna Russolillo is in collaboration with Massimiliano Marazzi, Nicola Scotto di Carlo and Sonia Gervasio.
The ribbon will be cut by the mayor of Procida Raimondo Ambrosino and the director of the Civic Museum “S. Tusa” Nicola Scotto di Carlo.
The exhibition, after an initial stop at the Salinas Archaeological Museum in Palermo in 2019, was expanded with panels on obsidian from Campania and exhibited in 2022 at the Archaeological Museum of Baia; it has now been further enriched with panels and geological and archaeological finds dedicated to obsidian from Procida.
The exhibition will start again from Procida on April 15th to return to Sicily in Ustica in the summer and to Lipari in the autumn.
The exhibition is part of the event “Vivere nel Vulcano” conceived by journalists Anna Russolillo and Franco Foresta Martin in collaboration with volcanologist Sandro de Vita and Dr. Sonia Gervasio, promoted by Lunaria A2 Onlus, has the patronage of the Campania Region and the collaboration of the Mic Archaeological Park of the Phlegraean Fields, the INGV, the Municipality of Pozzuoli, Quarto, Monte di Procida and Procida, the Civic Museum S. Tusa of Procida, the Literary Village, the Museum of Earth Science of Ustica, the Academy of the Phlegraean Fields.
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