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NATIONAL
MUSEUM OF ABRUZZO . L’AQUILA.
Spanish Fortress tel. +039 0862 6331 Opening
times: 9-19 Tuesday- Saturday 9-22
Sundays (summer) Admission:
4 Euros; free under eighteen and over sixty Guided tours for groups and
schoolchildren (booking necessary. Bookshop) It
is a quadrangular castle with big ramparts at each corner facing the
cardinal points and surrounded by a moat. It became, in the fifties, a
museum and here the works from other museums were
put together. On
the ground floor you can admire the big fossil of Archidiscodon Meridionalis
Vestinus and six archaeological collections: public and private plaques,
religious and civil plaques, public monuments and objects. XVI century
gonfalon of L’Aquila is in one of the ground floor rooms. On the first
floor you can find objects of sacred art displayed in ten rooms (works from
XII to XV centuries). A particular visit deserves the cross by Nicola da
Guardiagrele (1434). Different local artists are represented I the rooms.
You certainly will enjoy the tour listening to polyphonic and Gregorian
music, choral and organ music. Two more sections were added in 1995: the
numismatics and jewellery ones from Middle Ages and Renaissance. On
the second floor you find oil paintings by foreigners and local painters.
Some works from Flamish school and different works by modern painters. You
find also a collection once belonging to
Marchese Francesco Cappelli from Torano.
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ARCHEOLOGICAL NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ABRUZZO - CHIETI VILLA COMUNALE 1. Tel:
+039 0871 331668 – +039 0871 330955. Opening
times: 9-18.30 every day Admission:
4 Euros; free under eighteen and over sixty Free
for students and teachers The
museum is a Villa once belonging to the Barone Francesco Frigerj. It used to
be a school building, but in 1959 it was inaugurated by the then president
of the Republic Giovanni Gronchi. Today it hosts the richest archaeological
collection of Abruzzese culture. From Proto-history to the late Imperial age.
On the ground floor rooms you can find sculpture works from the Roman times
found in Alba Fucens, Foruli and other important archaeological sites of the
region. It is worth visiting the temple shaped tombstone of the magistrate
Lucius Storax and a numismatic collection of about 15.000 coins. On both
sides of the staircase leading upstairs you can se a Roman Lapidarium. The
upper floor showcases display tomb-objects found in the Abruzzese necropolis
(from 10 to 40 B.C.) it is particularly interesting the pendants made
of glass paste of Punic origin; they come from a tomb discovered in
Pennasantandrea (Teramo); other objects come from Campovalano and are a
great witness of the Italic civilization; it is also worth visiting the
statue of the warrior found in the necropolis of Capestrano (Aquila) VI
century B.C.
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NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM. CAMPLI Tel
and Fax +039 0861 599158 Opening
times: 8.30-13.30 / 15.30-19.30 every day Admission:
Free Guided
tours must be booked It
is situated in the rooms of the convent next to San Francesco church (300)
and it was inaugurated in 1999. the four rooms, thanks to a didactic layout,
can give the visitors a complete and clear picture of the Picene
civilization. You can find here a well-made picture of the Picene people of
Campovalano fro the first burials to the last period of decadence before the
arrival of the Romans. The archaeological finds can be well appreciated
because they are well displayed in the glassy cabinets and stores well
visible through glassy doors.
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CIVIC PINACOTECA. TERAMO VIALE BOVIO 4 Tel
+039 0861 12447772. Fax
+039 0861 247120 Opening
times: 9-13 (from September to June); 9-20 (July and August) Admission:
2.50 Euros Teramo had its civic Museum in 1985. it is situated in the centre of the town. The first collection was already formed by paintings of XVII and XVIII centuries from the Neapolitan School. Other archaeological finds from local excavations were added. Today the museum is in a neoclassic little building of 1840. the archaeological finds have been rationally displayed. Works of the following painters: Pietro D’anni, Nicolò De Simone, Mattia Preti, Domenico Mondo, Ludovico David, Francesco Solimena and the sculptors Raffaello Pagliaccetti, Costantino barella and Venanzio Crocetti are displayed in the museum.
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM TERAMO, Via Delfico 30. Tel
+039 0861 1247772 Fax +039 0861 247120 Opening
times: 9-13.30 (from September to June); 9-20 (July and August) Admission
2.50 Euros Situated
in the heart of the historical centre the museum itself represents a
privileged witness of the historical identity of the town. Its rooms show
the time evolution of the events representing “a far away way of living”.
The museum used to be a convent dedicated to St. John and then it became
court of law. Walking in the centre you can have a clear vision of the
remains of the theatre and of the Roman amphitheatre., walls and
“Pavimenta” representing the urban texture of the old Interamnia.
Ethimologically speaking it is a real museum, that is House of the Muses
because the rooms of the museum host cultural humanistic and scientific
events.
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MUSEUM OF THE ABRUZZESE PEOPLE – PESCARA Viale delle Caserme 22. tel
+039 085 4283517 – +039 085 4283598 www.aevo.com/mga Opening
times: 16 September 15 June : every day 9-13 / 16.30-18.30; on Sundays
10-13; closed on Mondays Guided
visits: Booking welcomed The
museum started its activity in 1982 and it aims at representing the
cultural Abruzzese Identity. The millenary practice of the transhumant
sheep-breeding, and prevailing mountainous nature of Abruzzo have favoured
the cultural continuity of this Region. Some finds excavated from
Pre-historic and Proto-historic sites reveal this continuity: the sanctity
of some rupestrian places, Prechristian ritual elements in many folk
festivals of catholic traditions the present agro-pastoral objects which
can be found in other objects going back to the Pre-history. The theme of
the Abruzzese transhumant sheep-breeding is well documented in this museum
through a rich documentation of objects, pictures, boos; everything is
integrated with effective scenographic reconstruction. The museum with its
15 rooms shows the peasant labour, in particular, the production cycles of
the wheat, olive and vine; homemade textile production, the furnishing of
rural houses, the traditional costumes and Abruzzese craftsmanship. Next
to the house where D’Annunzio was born works are in progress to re-build
a section of the museum bombed during the last war. Here the tow library
and a room for conferences and exhibition will be housed.
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ETNOGRAPHIC
MUSEUM Bomba (CH) - Via Roma - tel.
+039 0872 860128 - +039 0872 860226 Opening
Times: Saturday and Sunday 18.00-20.00 (summer); 15.30-17.30 (winter). Guided
visits for groups and school-groups, on telephone booking, also in
different schedules.
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MUSEUM OF PEASANT CIVILISATION IN VAL VIBRATA - Controguerra (TE) Via 5. Giuseppe, 26tel. +039 0861 856630
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MUSEUM
OF PEASANTS TRADITIONS AND ARTS - Picciano (Pe) - Via dei Pini, 17 tel.
and fax +039 085 8285158 Opening
Times: from Tuesday to Friday 9.00-13.00; Saturday and Sunday
16.00-19.30; Closed on Monday Guided
Tours for groups and school-groups by telephone booking
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CULTURAL
CIRCUIT OF THE SPORTS CENTRES OF THE MATERIAL CULTURE -
Castel del Monte (AQ)
tel. +039 0862 938137- fax +039 0862 938180 Opening
Times: 15 july -15 september 9.30-12.30 / 16.00-19.00 On
demand in the rest of the year
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MUSEUM
OF WOOL Scanno (AQ) - Vicolo 5. Antonio tel. +039 0864 74441 www.stelnet.coma/città/scanno Opening
Times: august 9.00-13.00/16.00-24.00; Closed on Monday Guided
Tours on demand
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