ART MUSEUM - ARCHAEOLOGICAL PIAZZA ARMERINA

The works belonging to the collection of the municipal museum, established in the late nineteenth century, they found initial reception in some rooms of the Municipal Palace, Palazzo Fundrò, up to the thirties, when they were moved to a room of the former Jesuit College at the beginning was Oratory of the Confraternity of the Nobles (seventeenth century), and until not long ago the reading room of the municipal Library.

The noble building has been done in recent times the subject of a major restructuring, not yet completed. The museum's collection, whose original nucleus has been significantly reduced due to a recent theft, consists of archaeological finds owned by the municipality of Piazza Armerina and completed by an art gallery coming from the archaeological sites of the area surrounding the town of Piazza.

The antiquities found in particular in the March Mountain sites, Monte Navone and Casale district, adding an interesting collection of ancient weapons, including a sword of the Norman period, a seventeenth-century gun and a number of muskets by cavalry and rifles of the late nineteenth century, and war paraphernalia dating back to the two world wars of the twentieth century.

Source Gal Ceres Rock

ART MUSEUM - ARCHAEOLOGICAL PIAZZA ARMERINA

BED AND BREAKFAST BAOBAB, Piazza Armerina