Throughout the month of October, “Marble, terracotta and more”

Part of the four-exhibition series "Finds on View: The Excavation in Your Hands," it follows "Frescoes and Stucco: Lost Gestures and Colors."

From garden paintings to agate fragments, from tableware to everyday objects like hair clips or a lead scale weight. These are just some of the finds on display in our museum until December thanks to “Finds in sight: the excavation is in your hands”, a series of four thematic exhibitions that will bring to light around fifty fragments of objects preserved in the museum's storage rooms and never before shown to the public. Following the success of the September exhibition “Frescoes and stucco: lost gestures and colors”, has started in recent days “Marble, terracotta and more” which will be visible throughout the month of October.

The aim of the exhibition, financed by the Veneto Region, is to offer visitors an opportunity to see more and more up close, also enhancing those finds that remain in the museum's storage rooms due to the necessary and inevitable exhibition choices of archaeologists, but which nevertheless contribute to telling the story of the spa and the Paduan waters area, sometimes adding further significant details.
Furthermore, by virtue of the artifacts' location in the two rooms dedicated to the archaeological areas in the area that yielded the most finds—the baths on Viale Stazione/Via degli Scavi and the villa on Via Neroniana—the exhibitions will be integrated into the museum's tour itinerary at no additional cost to visitors.

At the center of the exhibition are new technologies and inclusiveness, in keeping with the rest of the museum. Each display case will be equipped with a QR code through which visitors can download and view 3D models and the accompanying texts. Furthermore, unlike what usually happens in museums, the public will have the opportunity to "touch"hands-on with the selected finds under the supervision of Lapis archaeologists, directly perceiving their shape, size, weight, and material...; visiting days dedicated specifically to visitors with visual, hearing, or cognitive disabilities are also planned.

Among the materials used to decorate the baths and villas on display in recent weeks, fragments of agate, a hard stone probably from India, stand out, confirming the flourishing sea trade with the Far East. They all bear witness to a story that has remained untold since the 3rd century AD: that of the "Aquae Patavinae”.

The exhibitions are included in the tour itinerary and in the Museum entrance ticket and can be viewed during the Museum's opening hours and days: Friday from 4 pm to 7 pm, Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 7 pm. All other days, reservations are required for school groups and groups.

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