New installation for the entrance, ticket office, and bookshop areas of the MArTA Archaeological Museum MArTa of Taranto. The project for the National Archaeological Museum of Taranto involved targeted interventions aimed at renewing, integrating, and expanding the existing cultural offering.
In particular, the intervention focused onthe reconfiguration of the entrance hall on the museum’s ground floor. The new hall features an automated entrance system and a newly designed ticket office–bookshop area, as well as new furnishings. Above all, the project centered on the creation of a large display case accessible from within, measuring 237 × 684 cm at the base and 357 cm in height, with multiple shelves. Constructed in steel and glass, it is among the largest—if not the largest—display cases ever installed in an Italian museum. The hall has therefore been completely reconfigured both functionally and in terms of a renewed visual identity.
The new display cases produced by Petrucci Srl were designed according to a principle of maximum transparency, in order to enhance their contents as much as possible in terms of both visibility and visual appreciation. Compared with the existing cases, the new design eliminates the vertical metal uprights and the metal top structure, elements that were particularly prominent and visually intrusive in the previous display cases.