Location: Roma (EUR), Italy Date: 2025- Programme: Scenography Client:
Museo delle Civiltà Status: Ongoing Area: 458 m² Team: Traumnovelle (architects), Rimasùu(graphic designers)
Indice consists in the redesign of the scenography for the African section of the Museo delle Civiltà in Rome. The museum is housed within the district envisioned by Benito Mussolini for the Universal Exposition, a context where architecture itself is deeply entangled with ideology.
Addressing an African collection within a European museum already constitutes a complex and sensitive task. Situating this work within a paradigmatic ensemble of fascist architecture intensifies that challenge.
Our approach is to render visible the successive layers of display that have shaped the collection over time. By exposing these sedimented scenographies, the project constructs a spatial archive, one that reveals the conditions under which objects have been framed, interpreted, and instrumentalised.
Rather than erasing history, Indice seeks to engage it directly. The project operates as a device to confront inherited narratives and to open the possibility of their transformation.
This work is part of a broader institutional endeavour led by the museum to rethink how its collections are communicated, mediated, and critically examined today.
