The museum was inaugurated in the presence of king Victor Emmanuel II in 1870. It moved to its current location in 1880, in the Palazzo della Crocetta (a palace built in 1620 for princess Maria Maddalena de' Medici, daughter of Ferdinand I de Medici, by Giulio Parigi).
The Etruscan collection includes 'The Chimera of Arezzo' - discovered in 1553 at Arezzo during the construction of a Medici fortress; The Roman collection includes The "idolino of Pesaro", a 146 cm high bronze statue of a young man, a Roman copy from a classical Greek original, found in fragments in the centre of Pesaro in October 1530; The Greek collection includes a huge collection of ancient ceramics. Vases including "vase François" a large black figure krater of c. 570 BC signed by the potter Ergotimos and the painter Kleitias; The Egyptian collection includes 14,000 artifacts. The collection comprises material that extends from the prehistorical era right through to the Coptic Age.
Opening Hours
Mon 2 - 7pm
Tues & Thurs 8:30am - 7pm
Wed & Fri-Sun 8:30am - 2pm
Price
4 Euro
Address
Via della Colonna 38, at piazza Santissima Annunziata
Tel: 055 23 575
External Links
wikipedia.org
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