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The Museum System of Bolsena Lake, established in december 2000, consists of thirteen Museums each of which offers an offer linked to the territory:
Museo Territoriale del lago di Bolsena presso la Rocca Monaldeschi della Cervara a Bolsena
Museo del Fiore a Torre Alfina – Acquapendente
Museo Civico “F. Rottatore Vonwiller” a Farnese
Museo della Città di Acquapendente
Museo del Costume Farnesiano a Gradoli
Museo Civico Archeologico e delle Tradizioni popolari a Grotte di Castro
Museo Civico Archeologico “Pietro e Turiddo Lotti”a Ischia di Castro
Museo della Terra a Latera
Museo Naturalistico a Lubriano
Museo della Preistoria della Tuscia e della Rocca Farnese a Valentano
Museo Geologico e delle Frane a Civita di Bagnoregio
Museo dell'Architettura di Antonio da Sangallo il Giovane presso la Rocca a Montefiascone
Museo del Brigantaggio a Cellere
Territorial Museum of Bolsena Lake: housed in the fortress Monaldeschi della Cervara, represents a point of reference for knowledge and information about the history of the volcanic district of Bolsena Lake area and the various stages of settlement on its banks, ranging from prehistory up to the most recent events of local culture.
Starting from the Territorial Museum of Bolsena Lake, where are introduced the generality and all the topics of the museum system, it it easier to experience all several themed itineraries visiting other museums in the area.
Starting from the Territorial Museum of Bolsena Lake, where are introduced the generality and all the topics of the museum system, it it easier to experience all several themed itineraries visiting other museums in the area.
Banditry Muesum in Cellere: an exhibition “to listen to”, discover, manipulate and watch. Installations, audio, video and computer. Drawers, traps and hiding places. Books and files, reproductions of newspapers and cartoons of the time. Stories and legends, poems and songs. The Maremma banditry returned through the witnesses of the Maremma and the imagination of today.
At the Museo della Terra in Latera the exhibition tells the community's relationship with the land through the exhibition of objects and diving in spectacular parties, games, songs and historical memories returned in multivision. The Museum of the land is proposed as a place to live by promoting knowledge and safeguarding exhibitions, cultural events and educational workshops for all ages. The exhibition shows the territory with historical and natural tours.
The Flower Museum is a small natural history museum in the woods of Monte Rufeno Nature Reserve. From games to herbarium, from the laboratory of the path, every space, internal or external, is dedicated to the many interpretations with which it can be to deal with the theme of flowers. And the thousands of relations that these entities have with the rest of the living world, of which we belong. A place, in short, to finally discover where "everything you always wanted to know about flowers but never dared to ask ".
The Museum of the Municipality of Acquapendente, on the route of the Via Francigena, is headquartered at the Bishop's Palace, built after the establishment of the new Diocese of Acquapendente by Pope Innocent X, with the Bolla In supreme militantis Ecclesiae throne of 13 September 1649.
The current form of the building complex, of which it is possible to visit the underground papal prison cells, is the result of subsequent changes and additions that occurred between the end of the seventeenth century and the mid-eighteenth century.
The museum occupies the first floor with the Hall of Emblems and the halls of the private chapel of the bishop with hosting the diverse group of works from the collection of the Diocese and the rich collection of ceramics, which is the civic collection. The museum has a branch at the Tower Julia de Jacopo which houses the collection of archaic Majolica and a third section, at the ground floor of the former convent of Saint Francis, which hosts a series of paintings on canvas and wood from the same Franciscan monastery.
The Museum of the Municipality of Acquapendente, on the route of the Via Francigena, is headquartered at the Bishop's Palace, built after the establishment of the new Diocese of Acquapendente by Pope Innocent X, with the Bolla In supreme militantis Ecclesiae throne of 13 September 1649.
The current form of the building complex, of which it is possible to visit the underground papal prison cells, is the result of subsequent changes and additions that occurred between the end of the seventeenth century and the mid-eighteenth century.
The museum occupies the first floor with the Hall of Emblems and the halls of the private chapel of the bishop with hosting the diverse group of works from the collection of the Diocese and the rich collection of ceramics, which is the civic collection. The museum has a branch at the Tower Julia de Jacopo which houses the collection of archaic Majolica and a third section, at the ground floor of the former convent of Saint Francis, which hosts a series of paintings on canvas and wood from the same Franciscan monastery.
The Architecture Museum dedicated to Antonio da Sangallo the Younger is a real study and documentation center on the famous Renaissance architect. The location allows easy excursions to the individual works of Sangallo.The museum trail winds through several rooms that are on the ground floor of the beautyfull Fortress of the Popes in Montefiascone. The tour begins with a section dedicated to thematic presentation of the major Roman works of the architect. It continues with the illustration of the techniques and types which characterize the works. Each room offers a rich photographic documentation of the original drawings, scale models of the most significant works and plaster casts of construction details. (termporary closed)
In Santa Severa, on the site of Etruscan Pyrgi, the port of Caere (nowadays Cerveteri) one of the most important trading ports in the Mediterranean in ancient times, stands a magnificent Castle. Inside, among the various homes, the Castle houses the Maritime Museum named Museum of Sea and of Ancient Navigation which is considered to be a place of great historical importance in Etruria Laziale. The museum, which presents a number of models and interesting and very impressive reproductions, is focused on the navigation of Phoenician-Punic people and particularly of the Etruscans, who ruled as true masters of the sea even along most of the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea.
The popular science program that takes place several years in the Castle of Santa Severa by the Museum and the Archeodromo Corporation, includes a host of cultural and educational initiatives aimed at schools and to all those who want to learn the ancient world, archaeology and the knowledge of the development of the relationship between man and environment.
The popular science program that takes place several years in the Castle of Santa Severa by the Museum and the Archeodromo Corporation, includes a host of cultural and educational initiatives aimed at schools and to all those who want to learn the ancient world, archaeology and the knowledge of the development of the relationship between man and environment.
Near to the Vulci archaeological-naturalistic Park stands a medieval castle, located at one side of the old Bridge named Badia, of Etruscan origin. The Castle dates from the twelfth century. In the thirteenth century was perhaps property of the Templars; among the great figures of the castle owners just remember Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, and Alessandro Torlonia.
The castle houses the Vulci Etruscan Museum; here are visible stylish and elegant Etruscan bucchero vases and figured Greek vases, objects made in bronze and stone carvings relevant to the various local landmarks Vulci life, from earliest times to the late phase Villanova Roman.
The splendid Vitelleschi Palace, authentic Gothic and Renaissance architectural masterpiece, houses the Archaeological National Museum of Tarquinia. In the museum are housed one of the largest collections of Etruscan, famous findings as the charming and elegant clay sculpture of the Winged Horses, which decorated the pediment of the “Ara della Regina", and the Apollo Faleri Etruscan production of IV-III century B.C.
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A special museum is the "Claudio Faina" Museum in Orvieto, in Umbria just over the regional border (remember the link between Orvieto and Bolsena for the Miracle of Corpus Christi). The Museum is one of the largest archaeological italian collections. The collection was gathered from the Counts Mauro and Eugenio Faina between the sixties and eighties of the nineteenth century. Of particular importance is the series of black-figured and red-figured Attic vases, attributed to some of the most active ceramists in Athens.
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A special museum is the "Claudio Faina" Museum in Orvieto, in Umbria just over the regional border (remember the link between Orvieto and Bolsena for the Miracle of Corpus Christi). The Museum is one of the largest archaeological italian collections. The collection was gathered from the Counts Mauro and Eugenio Faina between the sixties and eighties of the nineteenth century. Of particular importance is the series of black-figured and red-figured Attic vases, attributed to some of the most active ceramists in Athens.
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