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Museo Civico, Viterbo

Coordinates: 42°25′03″N 12°06′38″E / 42.41738°N 12.11068°E / 42.41738; 12.11068
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Museo Civico di Viterbo/ Museo Luigi Rossi Danielli
Cloister of the Museum
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Established1955
LocationPiazza Francesco Crispi #13, Viterbo, region of Lazio, Italy
TypeArt and Archeology museum

Museo Civico di Viterbo (Italian for Civic Museum of Viterbo) is an archeologic and art museum located on Piazza Francesco Crispi #13 in Viterbo, region of Lazio, Italy. The museum is housed in the former 12th-century convent adjacent to the church of Santa Maria della Verità in the center of town.

History

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Bella Galiana Sarcophagus with hunting scene

The museum was founded in 1955, and since 2011 has been dedicated to Luigi Rossi Danielli, an architect from Viterbo. Around the cloister are a series of Etruscan sarcophagi from 4th to 3rd century BCE coming from tombs in Musarna, Cipollaretta, Norchia and Castel d’Asso. In the museum are also terracotta sarcophagi from the Etruscan town of Surina and the ancient Sarcophagus of Bella Galiana. There is also an archeologic collection from Musarna, Ferento, and San Giuliano, and donated in 1912 to his native city by Luigi Rossi Danielli.

The first floor houses the Pinacoteca or Art Gallery, established in the nineteenth century. It contains the artworks expropriated to the Church as a result of the law applied between 1870 and 1874.

Collections

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Pieta by Sebastiano del Piombo

Among the works on display are:[1]

Notes

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42°25′03″N 12°06′38″E / 42.41738°N 12.11068°E / 42.41738; 12.11068