Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale
The Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale "Giuseppe Tucci" on Via Merulana in Rome is now a closed museum for works of art from the Orient from the Middle East to Japan .
The museum was founded in 1957, and from 2005 to 2017 it was named after Giuseppe Tucci , who brought together many of the items on display on his travels between 1928 and 1948.
The museum had a remarkable collection of artefacts from the Gandhara culture , which came from archaeological missions of the Italian Institute for the Middle and Far East , which led to Buddhist and prehistoric sites in the valley of the Swat , to Barikot , to Panr or even Aligrama . Particularly noteworthy is the excavated Butkara stupa . Other collections included items from the palace of Masud III. from the Buddhist shrine of Tape Sardar near Ghazni , Afghanistan , from the prehistoric city of Shahr-e Suchte in eastern Iran as well as from Nepal , Tibet and Ladakh .
The museum's collections were transferred to the Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico "Luigi Pigorini" , where they are to be made accessible to the public again.
literature
- Il Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale a Palazzo Brancaccio. Sillabe, Livorno 1997.
- Cristina Delvecchio: Civiltà lontane al Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale. In: Lazio ieri e oggi 42, 4, 2006.
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Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 40.1 ″ N , 12 ° 30 ′ 1.6 ″ E