The Cosmos Festival lit up the spotlight on Advanced Technologies for Cultural Heritage. At the National Archaeological Museum there was talk of the ThomX and STAR systems, together with Daniele Nutarelli from Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay in France, Riccardo Barberi from Unical, and Andrea Smeriglio, physicist from the Department of Archaeological and Cultural Heritage. So, if the professor of the university of the Alps concentrated on ThomX, Berberi presented the technical part of Smart, while Smeriglio described some real results obtained with technological approaches of this type.
The Archaeological Museum, therefore, in addition to historical, artistic and archaeological beauties, has opened its doors to sciences placed at the service of cultural assets. Circumstance also stressed by the director of the Marc, Fabrizio Sudano, who spoke of “a meeting worthy of very strong consideration because it focuses on technologies that give concrete answers to research on historical heritage. Cosmos – it has emphasized – is confirmed an appointment of international importance and great merit goes, without doubt , assigned to the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria. The Museum is, therefore, honored to be able to host an initiative related to the Festival and the Prize”.
Returning to the topic of the conference, Sudano recalled that he had read and appreciated the research by the speaker, Professor Nutarelli, on obsidians in Mexico: “We are interested in starting a collaboration of this type because the research on cultural goods can give new information that only the excavation, the cataloguing and the study can only partially provide”.
The director Fabrizio Sudano, finally, thanked the Mayor of the Metropolitan City, Giuseppe Falcomatà, the CEO of Culture, Filippo Quartuccio, the manager Giuseppina Attanasio and the staff of Sector 2 of Palazzo Alvaro, as well as professor Angela Misiano, responsible for the Planetarium Pythagoras, and professor Gianfranco Bertone of the University of Amsterdam and president of the scientific jury of the Cosmos Prize.