Museography and Museology

Calogero Bellanca · Cecilia Antonini Lanari

Dec 2025 · Sapienza Università Editrice

About this ebook

The book continues to provide the experience of restoration and adaptation of historic architectures in a compatible use, as museums. After an historical profile of Italian and European museums, with especially attention on Vatican Museums, we continued on some European exemplified cases after the Second World War. In first paragraphs have been addressed some interventions done in Fifthes and Sixties in Italy. Then we continued with Franco Minissi, Guido Canali and Andrea Bruno’s experiences in restoration and adaptation works. We gave an overview of some museums and their extensions in different cities as Paris, Madrid, London and Berlin. We think that was also important to give some issues about the adaptation works in a compatible use of architectural pre-existences. In conclusion we wanted to give an overview about contemporary atmosphere about museology and museography.

With contributions by Susana Mora Alonso-Muñoyerro and Luis Pérez de Prada

About the author

Calogero Bellanca has a PhD in Conservation of Architectural Heritage and is professor of Architectural Conservation at the Faculty of Architecture, Sapienza University of Rome. He has carried out studies and research in various European Countries and has participated in the ICCROM fellows programme. He is Coordinator of the General Agreement with the TU Wien University, Polytechnic of Krakow, and Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (ETSAM, UPM). His practical work includes the study and restoration of palaces and churches in Rome and in other regions of Italy. Among his publications there are many books and essays in the field of restoration and architectural history. He is vice President ICOMOS International Committee for the Theory and Philosophy of Conservation and Restoration, and member of Academia del Partal.

Cecilia Antonini Lanari is an architect, graduated from Sapienza University of Rome with a thesis on the restoration and museum adaptation of a palace in Osimo (in central Italy), published in 2022. She has been teaching assistant in National and International courses held by Prof. Calogero Bellanca on the conservation and restoration of architecture. Author of several publications in journals and conferences, she has been a PhD student at the Department of History, Design and Restoration of the Sapienza University of Rome.