The four-week summer Archaeological Conservation Institute engages students in the discovery, appreciation and preservation of tangible cultural heritage and introduces the field of conservation.
Restoring mosaic in the CCA lab
It combines the study and discussion of principles and best practices of field conservation with hands-on experience restoring ancient 艺术ifacts, working with ancient technologies and materials, in the laboratories of the Centro di Conservazione Archeologica at 萨宾娜的贝尔蒙特, Italy with Roberto Nardi and his team.
Model of a temple and nuraghe in the Sassari Museum
Statuette of a nuraghic warrior in the Sassari Museum
Then the program moves to 撒丁岛 where students take p艺术 in the University of Sassari excavations directed by Marco Rendeli and his team. The site is the remarkable early Iron Age village of Sant’ Imbenia on the coast near Alghero, in the shadow of its nuraghe, one of the thousands of mysterious Late Bronze Age features dotting the 撒丁岛n countryside. Its pottery shows that its inhabitants traded with other cultures around the Mediterranean.
Visiting Capo Caccia (撒丁岛)
We take excursions from the Convento di San Nicola, CCA的家, 到门, Rieti, 阿西西, Spoleto and visit archaeological sites and museums in Rome on weekends. After working on the excavation, we relax on the beautiful beaches of northwestern 撒丁岛 and take in the sites of the historic city of Alghero. On weekends we visit the Roman site of Porto Torres, the nature preserve of Capo Caccia, the nuraghic villages at Palmavera and Torralba, 萨萨里的博物馆, the Phoenician site of Tharros and the scenic modern towns of Bosa and Castel Sardo.
The four-week summer program accepts fifteen students. Past p艺术icipants included students of archaeology, 艺术, 艺术历史, 化学, 经典, 教育, 英语, history and museum studies at Randolph College, 格罗夫城市学院, University of Minnesota, 埃克塞特大学, University of Lethbridge, 里士满大学, Sweet Briar College and the College of Wooster.
最近, ACI p艺术icipants worked with the conservators of the CCA cleaning and piecing together ceiling frescos, marble wall veneer and an opus sectile pavement from the Roman villa at Sant’ Imbenia (撒丁岛). That project will finish when the installation of the materials is complete and the Museo Civico Archeologico di Alghero (Museo della Città) opens to the public. Auguri!
