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Archaeology & Anthropology 2018
Global Journal of Research and Review
ISSN: 2393-8854
Page 34
October 01-02, 2018
London, UK
1
st
Edition of international Conference on
Archaeology and
Anthropology
Museo dell’Accademia Etrusca e della Città di Cortona (AR) in
Tuscany (Italy) presents a remarkable archaeological collection
concerning Etruscans and particularly findings from local
Tumulus of archaic period (VIcent.B.C.). Our society (AION
Cultura) manages museum’s educational activities and extended
its projects involving disadvantaged people in every category.
At first we developed a path inside the museum for blind and
visually impaired people:
• Through the implementation of panels and captions in Braille
alphabet and an optional support in a short Braille book guide
• Through the realization of models or copies of findings so
that a blind can easily “see” and understand by touching them
• With guided tour for them thanks internal cultural guides,
trained to make individual special tours for blind by National
Blind Association of Florence
• With specialized researcher we created an olfactory –
sensorial path in the Parco Archeologico del Sodo in Cortona
through the execution of several olfactory stations with
different essences and perfumes of the vegetation present
in Etruscan times
All this was possible for our participation in an European Project
in 2002 with Comune di Cortona together with France (Paris)
about disabilities and our formation allowed us to propose
this experience to other museums like Museo della Preistoria
del Monte Cetona (Siena) and Museo Fiorentino di Preistoria,
Florence with a project called “Forbidden not to touch” Moreover
we continued this program with other kinds of disabilities and we
can organize guided tour in the museum for people with mental
disease in collaboration with local associations for mental health
aid as CAM Association in Cortona. Furthermore in 2018 with
Comune di Cortonawe start a project of hospitality for immigrants
coming from Africa, involving them to make an intercultural
garden to treat the main original plants and essences in Parco
Archeologico del Sodo.
Keywords:
Disabilities, Etruscan civilization, Mental disease,
Immigrants
Recent Publications
1. L’Elbael’ArcipelagoToscano.Leavventurearcheologiche
di Ilvo, Roste e Velia. Guida per ragazzi. Pisa 2010
2. La preistoria. La vita quotidiana nella Toscana antica,
AMAT, Firenze 2013
3. Metodologia ordinativa dei motivi decorativi applicata
alla ceramica vascolare dell’età del Bronzo finale nell’
Italia medio-tirrenica in “Atti XLII Riun Sc I.I.P.P. Arte
preistorica in Italia – Trento 2007” Trento 2014
4. La collezione etrusca del MAEC. Guida breve, Cortona
2018
Biography
Stefano Rossi completed his degree (Prehistoric Archaeology) in 1993 and
Special School of Archaeology (Prehistory and Proto-history) in 2000 at Uni-
versity of Florence, and several Masters. He is member of IIPP (Italian Insti-
tute of Prehistory), Accademia Etrusca di Cortona and ICOM. He founded
andworks for a private society (Aion Cultura) from1995 in Cortona (Arezzo),
for which he is the coordinator of archaeological projects. He is active main-
ly at Museo dell’Accademia Etrusca e ella Città di Cortona – MAEC, in which
is responsable of themanaging for archaeological sector. He is involved dai-
ly with educational in museums and communication with a large audience.
His research area is Bronze Age, Etruscans, Excavations, Educational, Mu-
seums, Exhibitions, Relations between contemporaneity and ancient world.
He dug about 50 excavations, most of them as coordinator or director. He
has published more than 20 scientific papers and popular books. He gave
several lectures for different Universities.
rostef26@yahoo.itStefano Rossi
Aion Cultura – Cortona MAEC, Italy
Stefano Rossi, Glob J Res Rev 2018, Volume 5
DOI: 10.21767/2393-8854-C1-003
Museum and cultural itineraries for different disadvantaged
people in Cortona (AR)