Ariete for culture, the new life of the Museo Nicolaiano Bari

Ariete marries art and to contribute to the enhancement of the welfare of the city of Bari, the Museo Nicolaiano. A restyling project that has involved as founding members of the Academy of s. nicola Citadel, the association, which was entrusted with the management of important cultural container is linked to the figure of Saint Nicholas.

An initiative in line with the company’s mission to contribute to social events and cultural contexts in which it operates Ariete: “We are honoured to be joined, together with other local businesses, in this project, which makes it available to the entire town finds the extraordinary value of historic, religious and cultural heritage,” said the president of Ariete Angelo Disabato, “give more light to a container so important for the history of Bari and the whole region is a source of great pride”.

Saturday 4 may 2019 it has been inaugurated the new layout of the ground floor of the Museum, in the presence of the authorities and the president of the Academy, the Citadel, s. nicola, Alberto Losacco. It is the first piece of a project to relaunch the cultural tourism that will affect the whole of the Museum in the coming months.

A multi-sensory journey through the Greco Roman through Byzantine and ends with the Norman Swabian: 15 centuries of history encased in the remains of great beauty, donated to the Basilica of San Nicola in the course of the centuries, or were found during the restoration work.

Spaces more comfortable and, above all, interactive, able to involve more and more children, young people and students through the use of new technologies will be able to know and learn not only the figure of St. Nicholas, but throughout the history of our city. The renovation work started in mid-January and will continue on the first floor, while those of the second floor will start in October 2019 in order to complete the project, which will give visitors the opportunity to enter into the life of the three epochs and seize the historical references of the essential regarding the figure of the Saint.