PROGRAMME:

H18:00 Institutional greetings
Ilyas Azouzi (Head of Science, Research, and Innovation, Istituto Svizzero)
Riccardo Blumer (Director, Academy of Architecture, Università della Svizzera italiana)
Carla Mazzarelli (Università della Svizzera italiana)
Introduzione: Il “Museo di Roma”: un museo vivente?

H18:30 Daniela Lancioni (Palazzo Esposizioni Roma)
Le monografiche a Palazzo Esposizioni Roma

H19:00 Filippo Lambertucci (Sapienza University of Rome)
Archeologia per chi va in metro. La stratificazione urbana di Roma esce dal museo

H19:30 Andrea Viliani (DHGP – Direzione Generale Musei)
Dentro e fuori il metaverso: musei fra passati condivisi, presenti accessibili e futuri sostenibili

H20:00 Final discussion and Q&A

Carla Mazzarelli is Full Professor of Museology and Modern Art History at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Università della Svizzera italiana, where she also teaches at the Institute of Italian Studies. Her research focuses in particular on classical and academic culture between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, on the history of collecting and museums, as well as on artistic reception, the role of audiences, and issues relating to the transmission of models and artistic reproducibility from the early modern period to the twentieth century. Since 2023 she has been leading the project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, Visibility Reclaimed: Experiencing Rome’s First Public Museums (1733–1870). An Analysis of Public Audiences in a Transnational Perspective. In 2023 she was Visiting Research Fellow at Durham University, and in 2025 she was Invited Researcher within the DEA Programme at the Fondation de la Maison des sciences de l’homme in Paris; she will be Visiting Researcher at Stanford University in 2026. Among her recent publications: L’anatomia tra lettere e arti: rappresentazioni e immaginari dal XVI al XXI secolo (with L. Bisello; Brill, Nuncius Series, 2025), Pubblici dei primi musei pubblici (XVIII–XIX sec.). I. Le fonti istituzionali (with G. Capitelli and C. Piva, Mendrisio Academy Press, 2025); Leonardo nel Novecento. Arti, scienze e lettere in dialogo (Cinisello Balsamo, Silvana Editoriale, 2023).

Gaetano Cascino is a doctoral research assistant at the Institute of History and Theory of Art and Architecture of the Università della Svizzera italiana. His PhD thesis, jointly supervised with Roma Tre University, is part of the FNS project Visibility Reclaimed and focuses on the reception and use of museums in late nineteenth-century Rome. In the spring semester of 2025 he was a Visiting PhD Student at Columbia University in New York, thanks to a Mobility Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Luca Piccoli is a doctoral research assistant at the Institute of History and Theory of Art and Architecture of the Università della Svizzera italiana, within the framework of the FNS project Visibility Reclaimed. His thesis, jointly supervised with Sapienza University of Rome, is devoted to the origins of museography in eighteenth-century Rome. In the 2024/2025 academic year he was a fellow of the Swiss Institute within the transdisciplinary programme Roma Callingand, from October 2025 to March 2026, a Visiting PhD Student at Stanford University thanks to a Mobility Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Daniela Lancioni is Senior Curator at Azienda Speciale Palaexpo. Between 1998 and 2001 she founded and directed the Tor Bella Monaca Space for Contemporary Art (run by the Associazione Beat 72 on behalf of the City of Rome). Among the exhibitions and catalogues she has curated are shows dedicated to Giacinto Cerone, David Tremlett, Giuseppe Penone, Giulio Paolini, Tano Festa, Giosetta Fioroni (co-curated), Carlos Amorales, Mimmo Jodice, Officina San Lorenzo, Cesare Tacchi (co-curated), Jim Dine, Carla Accardi (co-curated), Mario Schifano, Anni 70 – Arte a Roma, and the series Mostre a Roma. Her publications include Roma in mostra 1970–1979. Materiali per la documentazione di mostre azioni performance dibattiti (Rome, 1995). She curates the database Mostre a Roma, published on the Palazzo Esposizioni Roma portal.

Filippo Lambertucci is an architect and Associate Professor of Interior Architecture at Sapienza University of Rome. He is founder and director of the departmental laboratory Re_Lab and co-founder of LP.studio. His research, teaching and professional practice focus on space as a site of action, exploring the dialogue between heritage and contemporary life in the fields of infrastructural interiors, sacred space and museum design. The design of the San Giovanni (2018) and Colosseo (2025) metro stations, developed with Re_Lab, effectively set a new quality standard adopted for the central stations of Rome’s new Metro Line C. The parish complexes of SS. Salvatore in Genzano di Roma and S. Giuseppe in Pavona (Rome), together with the San Giovanni station, are included in the Italian Ministry of Culture’s census Italian Architecture from 1945 to the Present.

Andrea Viliani is a contemporary art critic, historian, curator and coordinator of DHGP – Digital Heritage Gateway Platform, a strategic initiative of the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Directorate-General for Museums for the creation of an Italian museum metaverse. Viliani was Director of the MUCIV – Museum of Civilisations in Rome (2022–2026), Head and Curator of CRRI – Castello di Rivoli Research Centre (2020–2021), Director of the Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee / Museo MADRE in Naples (2013–2019), Director of the Fondazione Galleria Civica – Centre for Contemporary Research in Trento (2009–2012), and Curator at MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna (2005–2009). In 2020 he co-devised with Massimo Osanna Pompeii Commitment. Archaeological Matters, the first long-term project by the Archaeological Park of Pompeii dedicated to contemporary arts and cultures.