Le strategie museali per la comunicazione dei siti archeologici: casi di studio francesi

Archeological sites are exemplary resources of cultural transmission and communication, testimony of the relationship between sites and men, media of the linkage existing between visible and invisible factors intrinsic in them, instruments for the recognition of the identity of a community in relation to its territory. Revisiting the past, pointing to a non-specialist public, is one of the assumption orienting the current museum strategies, elaborated to answer to the new requests of a less ideologized musealisation and to the needs of auto-identification of a community with its territory. The complexity of a museal management of archaeological sites, in addition to the complexity of the object to musealize, needs an investigation based on the study of significative cases. Since France represents probably the highest expression of a nation’s cultural identity redemption, we intend to carry on the survey by examining some French cases of musealisation of archaeological sites, in which the search for cultural identity and the need for its transmission has reached a balance. Organization and control of a complex reality, as ancient sites are, involves the inevitable cohabitation of different theories within the same management process, all of them resulting necessary to face the multiple and various factors characterizing an archaeological site. This perspective shows the necessity to create a non-fragmentary distribution of abilities, creating instead a unique “management direction”, for example instituting a site-museum, as sole and sustainable support institution, capable to supply all the necessary cultural and management functions.