Girolamo Rossi Archaeological Museum

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Girolamo Rossi Archaeological Museum
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Data
place Via Verdi, 41, Ventimiglia Coordinates: 43 ° 47 ′ 25.9 ″  N , 7 ° 35 ′ 44.4 ″  EWorld icon
Art
Archaeological Museum
opening 1984
operator
Ventimiglia municipality
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The Archaeological Museum Girolamo Rossi ( Italian Museo civico archeologico Girolamo Rossi ) is an archaeological museum in the Italian city ​​of Ventimiglia and is maintained by its city administration.

It is not far from the medieval city ​​center and the historic Roman road Via Julia Augusta , on Via Giuseppe Verdi , in the city fortress Fortezza dell'Annunziata .

Open to the public since 1984, the museum is named after Girolamo Rossi (1831–1914), a local scholar who discovered the Roman theater and the historic settlement of Albintimilium near Ventimiglia.

The museum building comprises seven halls with over 1200 square meters of exhibition space, in which important archaeological finds (mostly from the excavation sites of the ancient Albintimilium) are exhibited.

The showrooms

  • Room 1: reproductions of the maps and documents from the Fortezza dell'Annunziata
  • Hall 2: Collection of clay figures with personalities from the theater
  • Room 3: a boundary stone (it is one of the most important finds in the region) with Roman inscriptions from the 1st to 4th centuries
  • Hall 4: Sculptures from the collection of Thomas Hanbury (19th century)
  • Hall 5: Collection of various ceramics from the time of the Roman Empire
  • Hall 6: Glasswork from the western necropolis of Albintimilium (perfume bottles, glasses, goblets, ...)
  • Room 7: Reconstruction of the Albintimilium necropolis

gallery

  • Stone column from Turbia

  • Room 4 sculptures

  • Ceramic work

  • Hall 6 glass work ( Ichthyozentaur )

  • Room 7 Albintimilium Necropolis

  • Head of a Juno statue

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