Three exhibitions, three eras: from Rome to Bologna, a weekend between contemporary art and archaeology

A story that the morning had not told: three exhibitions are opening or continuing in these weeks between Rome and Bologna, according to Revenews Arts. The news currently comes from a single source consulted for the entirety of the information; no further independent confirmation is available.

From October 31, the Museo delle Mura in Rome is hosting the exhibition ‘Correnti Sotterranee’, open until January 31, 2027. The exhibition is part of the Capital’s calendar of cultural initiatives related to the promotion of the city’s heritage within the Museum’s spaces, housed in the city’s ancient defensive walls.

On the Palatine Hill, in the Parco archeologico del Colosseo, the exhibition ‘Saffo’ continues meanwhile, opened on October 15 and open until January 31, 2027 at the Uccelliere Farnesiane. The exhibition, curated by Silvia Romani, is dedicated to the Greek poet, described in material released by the Parco archeologico as the only great female voice to survive from archaic Greek literature. This is a rare in-depth exploration dedicated to an author of whom only fragments remain, in a display designed to give the public a historical context that would otherwise be largely inaccessible.

In Bologna, Palazzo Belloni has been hosting since early October an immersive exhibition dedicated to Tutankhamun, reconstructing the discovery of the pharaoh’s tomb through more than one hundred certified reproductions of artifacts, stage sets and virtual reality tools. The exhibition brings back to life the 1922 discovery made by the archaeologist Howard Carter, one of the best-known episodes in the history of modern archaeology. The opening on October 3 was attended by the Egyptologist Zahi Hawass, an internationally renowned figure in ancient Egyptian studies and former head of Egyptian antiquities.

The three exhibitions span chronological periods very distant from one another — from the Egypt of the boy pharaoh to archaic Greek poetry, through to a contemporary installation in the heart of Rome — and share an overlapping time window, with closing dates set for almost all of them at the end of January 2027. A calendar that, in the same autumn, places side by side three different ways of telling the past: technological reproduction, philological curatorship and the promotion of a historic urban space.