What is the Accademia Adrianea?
The “Accademia Adrianea” is the first school of architecture and archeology existing on the international horizon of institutes of high learning for professional education and scientific research.
The “Accademia” brings together the two disciplines of architecture and archeology - design and excavation - understood as autonomous and at the same time interdisciplinary.
The professional discipline of Museography is the interdisciplinary activity where the common objectives of architecture and archeology can be realized. This hinge discipline has the capacity to tap a broad knowledge base for the common goal of adding value to culturally significant sites and archeological artifacts by intervention through design.
The “Adrianea” offers a program of professional training leading to a Private European Master’s degree. It also offers topically and site-specific scientific courses (Corsi Brevi). The principle field of application is the archeological site, its relationship with its territory, and therefore with its physical and cultural landscape, and its relationship to the contemporary situation.
At the heart of the Accademia is Mus_AT: the department of Museography and Advanced Technology for Beni Culturali. Mus_AT is a research institute for museographic, museological, and management research for Beni Culturali. It is the first institute in Italy that utilizes new information technology in the field of museography for integrated professional development. Its objective is to promote study, research and archival documentation, along with design projects for itself and for others. The institute works in collaboration with: the Municipality of Tivoli, la Sovrintendenza Archeologica del Lazio, il Ministero per I Beni e le Attivita’ Culturali, and with all the Italian and international universities engaged in the study of issues related to the architectural design of museums.
Basically the Adrianea and Mus_AT present a new and active reference in this sector aiming at two objectives:

• The formation of mangement professionals oriented to institutions with capabilities and the responsibility for the modern instruments of documentation, preservation, and promotion of Beni Culturali.

• The formation of architectural design professionals, with the specialization in the discipline of museography. The operative part of this professional development will include analysis and cataloguing of archeological artifacts, feasibility studies and preliminary projects, design development and final working drawings, for museum buildings and archeological sites to be developed for public access.
  
  
  

Why
Notwithstanding that Italy is the country of museums and archeological treasures, having one of the broad-ranging and most intense archeological legacies in the world, it is worthy of note that there does not exist an interdisciplinary educational institution based on the triangulation between architecture, archeology and museography. The Adrianea intends to fill this void offering itself to students with an interest in museum design, the exhibit of, and communication for, Beni Culturali and archeological sites in particular.
Based on the experience of the International Seminar at Villa Adriana Premio Piranesi that is centered on the creation of a bridge between culture and project and between culture and conservation - a place for disciplinary contamination -, it is possible to promote an interdisciplinary professional development activity concentrated on museum design.

Target
The Adrianea is a post-graduate, post-professional, and post-diploma institution open to students engaged in research and design for museums.
It is therefore open to architects, archeologists, historians,  interior designers, visual and graphic designers, artists, preservationists, together with management professionals and technicians, and public and private administrators tied to the management of Beni Culturali.

Enrollment, Workshops, Students:
The Master’s Degree in Architecture, Archeology and Museography: Strategic Design and Innovative Management of Archeological Sites is organized on the basis of an itinerant set of workshops. These design and research workshops are held at various locations in Italy and abroad. Each workshop is academically autonomous with issues engaged that are of the specific site but pertain to the key issues concerning architecture and archeology. Sites for the workshops are selected on the basis of their importance at the international level. Ente Organizzatore





Under the Patronage of:
Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Lazio
Comune di Roma
Comune di Tivoli

in collaboration with:
Grande Bibliotheca Alexandrina di Alessandria d’Egitto
National Technical University Of Athens
Pantheon Institute_Roma
Politecnico di Milano
Politecnico di Torino
Università “La Sapienza” di Roma
Università degli Studi di Palermo
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Università Politecnica delle Marche

Board of Technical Advisors:
Vassili Ganiatsas, National Technical University Of Athens_School Of Architecture
Ignacio Bosch Roig, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
Francisco Juan Vidal, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
Marina Sapelli Ragni, Soprintendente per i Beni Archeologici del Lazio
Benedetta Adembri, Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Lazio_Villa Adriana
Marina Mattei, Soprintendenza Archeologica del Comune di Roma
Angelo Torricelli, Politecnico di Milano_Facoltà di Architettura e Società
Giancarlo Carnevale, IUAV_Facoltà di Architettura
Luca Basso Peressut, Politecnico di Milano_Facoltà di Architettura e Società
Gianni Accasto, Facoltà di architettura Ludovico Quaroni, Università La Sapienza, Roma
Lucio Altarelli, Facoltà di architettura Ludovico Quaroni, Università La Sapienza, Roma
Giuseppe Guerrera, Facoltà di Architettura di Palermo
Maria Clara Ruggieri Tricoli, Facoltà di Architettura di Palermo
Marco Vaudetti, Politecnico di Torino_Facoltà di Architettura
Valeria Minucciani, Politecnico di Torino_Facoltà di Architettura
Simona Canepa, Politecnico di Torino_Facoltà di Architettura
Marco Bini, Facoltà di Architettura, Università di Firenze
Giorgio Verdiani, Facoltà di Architettura di Firenze
Fausto Pugnaloni, Università Politecnica delle Marche_Facoltà di Ingegneria, Ancona


President Accademia Adrianea:
Romolo Martemucci, also President and Director, Pantheon Institute – Roma,
Professor of Architecture, retired, The Pennsylvania State University

Master’s Program Director:
Pier Federico Caliari, Direttore Generale Accademia Adrianea di Architettura e Archeologia

Master’s Program Coordinator:
Carola Gentilini, Responsabile Comunicazione Accademia Adrianea di Architettura e Archeologia

Administrative Office
Maria Patti