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Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi Syracuse PDF Print
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alt The Regional Archaeological Museum "Paolo Orsi" Syracuse is one of the main archaeological museums in Europe.

History

In 1780 the Bishop Museum Alagona inaugurated the seminar now, in 1808, at the Archbishop's Palace Museum. Subsequently, a Royal Decree of June 17, 1878 marked the birth of the National Archaeological Museum in Siracusa, only opened in 1886 in its historic headquarters in Piazza Duomo.

From 1895 to 1934 he directed the Museum Paolo Orsi, but the subsequent growth of the findings necessitated the need for a new space at its current location in the garden of Villa Landolina. The new museum, entrusted to architect F. Minissi, was inaugurated in January 1988 at the Villa Landolina on two floors of exhibition space of 9,000 m2, of which only one of the first floor was opened to the public, and a basement of 3,000 m2, where there is an auditorium. In 2006 he was inaugurated the exhibition also enlargement on the top floor, dedicated to classical and Roman period, however, remain yet to set up the remaining exhibition space.

The museum includes artefacts dating from prehistoric periods to those from greek and roman ruins of the city and other sites in Sicily.

The ground floor is divided into three sectors (ABC), while the main body (area 1) is dedicated to the history of the museum and the materials are presented briefly exposed sectors.

Sector A

In the field, dedicated to prehistory (Palaeolithic-Iron Age), with an exposure of rocks and fossils that testify to the various forms of animal in the Quaternary. It is preceded by a section which shows the geology of the Mediterranean and the area Iblea.

Sector B

In Area B, dedicated to the Greek colonies in Sicily in the period Ionic and Doric, you can identify the location of the Greek colonies in Sicily and their towns of origin. Also on display: a headless marble statue of Kouros from Leontinoi (Lentini) dated to the early fifth century BC The remains of the Doric colony of Megara Hyblaea, votive statuettes of Demeter and Kore and a Gorgon, a head of Augustus from Centuripe. Also on display is also Venus Venus Landolina Anadiomene also called by the archaeologist who discovered it in 1804 in Syracuse, called wonderful "for the excellence of the model, the exquisite treatment of the nude, of incredible vividness and morbidity" [citation needed] from Bernabo Brea.

Sector C

In the area C are relics of the sub-colonies of Syracuse Akrai (664 BC), Kasmenai (644 BC), Camarina (598 BC), Eloro. As well as findings from other centers of eastern Sicily and from Gela and Agrigento.

Sector D

The area D, on the first floor, was opened in 2006 and contains the remains of Hellenistic-Roman period. Inside it contains some of the most famous exhibits of the museum: the Venus Landolina and the Sarcophagus of Adelaide, as well as a selection of coins from the numismatic cabinet in Piazza Duomo.



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