Museums in CORTONA
Italian Museums
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Municipal Museum of the Etruscan Academy
Hotels Municipal Museum of the Etruscan Academy
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CORTONA Piazza Signorelli, 9 TEL. 0575/630415 |
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OPENING TIMES: 10 - 19
CLOSED MONDAY The museum includes an archaeological section (Etruscan statuettes, two bronze statuettes dating respectively to the 3rd and the 2nd century BC, Cypriot, Greek and Roman pottery); an Egyptian collection with items dating from 2,000 BC (two mummies wrapped in bands and two wooden sarcophaguses); a medieval and Renaissance section (ivory works, illuminated books and furniture); 15th to 19th-century of paintings, among which works by Pinturicchio, L. Signorelli, A. Romano. Remarkable exhibit: a 5th-century BC Etruscan bronze pendant, 60 cm large and weighing 58 kg, found in 1840 in the Cortona's country. |
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