Dalla ricerca di base alla terza missione: un viaggio non a senso unico.Il caso del Progetto Falerii

The study of the Faliscan region in the pre-Roman period is one of the lines of research of the Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità, Sapienza Università di Roma. The main sites of the area were extensively investigated in the decades between the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, and were widely reconsidered over the last thirty years. Since 2011, a new project has been structured focusing on Falerii (Civita Castellana, VT), the main center of the region. Finally, since 2019, a new season of field investigations has been underway on the Vignale hill, one of the two hills on which the ancient city stood. This new series of activities has been also an opportunity to reflect on the role that a scientific mission and a research team can play in a territory, in which the value of the archaeological heritage is not always fully recognised, also questioning how to involve the local community in all its facets. It was immediately clear that it was necessary to act on several levels, in an attempt to involve different parts of the population. A multilayered dissemination project was therefore structured. The project was articulated in various actions, focused on different parts of the ongoing research and was carried out in strict collaboration with the local community. The paper presents the first results of this dissemination path: a tactile experience, also intended for the differently- abled audience, and new visit itineraries for the Archaeological Museum of the Agro Falisco (Forte Sangallo, Civita Castellana, VT).