It is named
after Luigi Pigorini (1842/1925) the scholar who had founded in 1876 in a wing
of the Palazzo del Collegio Romano
The museum
was moved here in the years 1962/1977
Stained-glass
window “Cosmogony” 1941/42 by Giulio Rosso
(1897/1976)
In the
SCIENCE HALL inlaid marble floor with “Decorative elements related to science”
1943 by Mario Tozzi (1895/1978)
First
Floor - Ethnography
AFRICA
Exhibition
that illustrates the three key historical moments of the encounter between
Africa and the West:
1) The
discovery of the African west coast, which took place between 1434 and 1488
2) The
exploration of the interior of the continent, which was fulfilled in the
nineteenth century
3) The “discovery”
of Black Art at the beginning of the twentieth century, which profoundly
influenced the processes of elaboration of western plastic arts
In the
exhibition space for rotating exhibits: “The splendor of the warrior” with
ancient African weapons
OCEANIA
One of the
most important collections of its kind in Europe: a collection of about 15,000
objects from Melanesia, from Polynesia, Micronesia and from Australia,
collected mostly by travelers, scholars and explorers of the late nineteenth
century
The oldest
objects, such as the Hawaiians ones from third voyage of James Cook were
brought to Europe from the first voyages of exploration in the Pacific Ocean
“THE
AMERICAS”
Archaeological
cultures of Mesoamerica and Central America
First
introductory exhibit, population and the first contact with Europeans
The “retrospective”
on Mesoamerica
The “theme”
through objects that seeks to understand the peoples that produced them
Room
dedicated to the area of the Andes
The
permanent exhibition of the section of Asian Culture is awaiting funding from
the Ministry
Second
Floor – Prehistory
1) Methods
for the study of the past
2) Homo.
The natural history
Exhibits
made also using multimedia technology with general themes. They introduce the
other sections that have been organized on a thematic basis as part of a long
chronological order. Each refer to specific periods of human history
3) Hunters
and gatherers
It
documents the population of the Lazio region during the Paleolithic period
4) Art in
prehistory
5) A blast
from the past
Excavations
still in progress in the village “La Marmotta” (The Groundhog) (Lake Bracciano,
Anguillara), from which the huge “Dugout monossile in
oak” on
display in the atrium on the ground floor
6) From
village to city
Materials
from various areas Italian and foreign (Swiss and Aegean area) relative to the
Neolithic, Eneolithic, Bronze Age and early Iron Age
Tombs from Colli Albani, Osteria dell'Osa, Tarquinia,
Vulci, Bisenzio, Vetulonia, Volterra and Bologna
“Storage of
Coste Marano” near Allumiere consists of a “treasure” of 148 bronzes of the end
of the eleventh or early tenth century BC
Famous
and controversial “Fibula Prenestina” in
gold with one of the oldest inscriptions in Latin. Many scholars doubt its
authenticity
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