This book is a guide, but at the same time it's not. It is a guide because its pages illustrate and discuss everything on display in the spaces of the museum. And it is not a guide, because it prefers to accompany the reader outside, into the streets of this city fragment.
[Crypta Balbi. Archaeology and history of an urban landscape] This book is a guide, but at the same time it’s not. It is a guide because its pages illustrate and discuss everything on display in the spaces of the museum. And it is not a guide, because its tale does not rigidly follow the order of the rooms or the displays. Instead, it accompanies the reader outside, in the streets of this city fragment that has become a museum, with a new approach to visiting and understanding such works. The history of an urban landscape and, at the same time, of its archaeology.