The "Luigi Pigorini" National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography is a public and research
museum
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make thes ...
located in
Rome, Italy. Established in 1875 and opened in 1876 by
Luigi Pigorini, from 2016 it is one of the four museums inside the
Museum of Civilizations' network, and is currently directed by Andrea Viliani.
Holdings
One important collection of the Pigorini houses is Neolithic artifacts from
Lake Bracciano
Lake Bracciano ( it, Lago di Bracciano) is a lake of volcanic origin in the Italian region of Lazio, northwest of Rome. It is the second largest lake in the region (second only to Lake Bolsena) and one of the major lakes of Italy. It has a circu ...
. Another is the early ethnographic collection of
Athanasius Kircher
Athanasius Kircher (2 May 1602 – 27 November 1680) was a German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works, most notably in the fields of comparative religion, geology, and medicine. Kircher has been compared to fe ...
. The museum also conserves the
Praeneste fibula
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, the oldest known inscription in the Latin language.
References
Further reading
*Brizzi, Bruno
d.1976 ''The Pigorini Museum'' Rome, Quasar. 424 page catalogue with hundreds of plates in colour and black and white.
External links
Pigorini websiteEuropean Virtual Museum*
National museums of Italy
Archaeological museums in Italy
Ethnographic museums in Italy
Museums in Rome
Pigorini, Luigi National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography
Museums established in 1876
1876 establishments in Italy
Rome Q. XXXII Europa
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