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.