All Calabria, and in particular those who live in the province of Reggio Calabria, will be aware of the closure for refurbishment of the National Museum of Magna Grecia in Reggio Calabria, if only because of the insistence with which Local media have reported the long controversy about accommodation during the period of unavailability of the structure of the Bronze Statues (among other things also need to be restored), which was originally intended to be transferred to Rome, and that, instead of here in a few weeks will be allocated apparently, at the Palace which houses the Regional Council. Well, the story of the ongoing work at the Palazzo Piacentini, home to the museum of our town, is a question that might have become of interest to oppidesi a much greater extent than apparently derives from the simple to the local community with Oppido Reggio Calabria.
museum institute in the city of the Strait are preserved, in fact, almost all of the numerous archaeological finds unearthed during excavations carried out in our area - true reservoir of antiquities - from the last century and until today, that is found in a completely causal over time.
The finest pieces are (more correctly, were, as the museum is already closed, and will remain so until 2011) exposed to the public, how - and to mention only the most famous - the so-called cup Cananzi (named after the city that occasionally found it) or Tresilico (in whose territory it was found, and even if one scholar recently deceased claimed that the ground where it had lain for centuries was situated in the countryside of Varapodio, and proposing such a change of name), glass bowl dating from the third century BC, or the bronze plate with a dedication to Hercules Reggio, also discovered by chance but in the Castellace, and even earlier, since going back to the fifth century. deposits of the museum guard then finds a wealth of additional metal, silica, ceramics, coins and any other kind, nature of construction, part of the personal or household equipment for everyday use or even funeral, and the testimony of several constituents millennia of history of human settlements in our territory, recorded in chronological order, starting from the protohistoric site of Castellace, before moving to the fortress of Contrada Palazzo (IV century BC), the Italian town of Mella (III - the first century BC) and before the present day, the medieval village of Old Oppido (XI - XVIII century AD).
For decades, namely since the late 80's, from when the idea of \u200b\u200bsetting up a museum to Oppido found a first draft, many of these objects waiting to be exposed directly in our town and, for the their learning and move to our city (and yet keeping in mind that, of course, the Archaeological Survey of Calabria grant to the City on loan already visible in the Reggio) the closure of Palazzo Piacentini an occasion all in favor.
precludes such a solution, once again, the lack of structure to Oppido recovered and used to house the town museum, Palazzo Grillo, who, after buying such marks by the City, the third is undergoing major restructuring and , and now almost ten years after the first full-bodied restoration, financed with funds from the Mezzogiorno and persisted for the 90s, has been and is being used, apart from fleeting cultural and pseudotali, in an extremely partial as a library and as the seat of the police headquarters (?).
Why, then, this historical building is not yet ready to be used to achieve the purposes for which so many public money was spent we ignore it, since it is already fitted inside, the display cases of artifacts and, and even though this is still not active, the alarm system needed to protect exposures. fact is that it, worn for the ongoing decline that time subject to everything and more to the degradation of non-use, yet to be born and he is old, or rather, has grown old without have lived, and requires substantial maintenance to keep ready for an appointment, which his operation, but finds it hard to get.
The failure of the "multipurpose cultural center of support to the archaeological sites of Old Oppido Mella" (as the structure to be allocated in the building was originally called) is probably attributable to the legendary curse of the Palazzo Grillo, who wrote Don Luca Asprea imparted by the next bishop, and maybe even its effects? Or, in a less supernatural, incompleteness and lack of features will depend on the work of recovery and the lack of concreteness of our local ruling class?
do not know, but it is certain that the City Museum, an institution included in the curricula of all political forces in the city competition in municipal elections last twenty years, evidently regarded by all as fundamental to the development of cultural tourism area is, at present, the largest unfinished business of our city, and cherished dream unfulfilled, in the vain expectation of which - like the famous Godot Beckett's theatrical piece - the community oppidese has consumed time and resources.
We only hope that the future (possibly near) our belies this conclusion.
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