Museo Dell'Accademia Etrusca
The Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca (''Museum of the Etruscan Academy'') is a public archeological museum housed in the Palazzo Casali, also known as the town's Palazzo Pretorio, located in the historic center of Cortona, province of Arezzo, region of Tuscany, Italy. The museum entrance faces Piazza Signorelli, and is one house east of a facade of city hall (Palazzo Comunale) and sits west across Via Casali from the Teatro Signorelli. This was one of the first public museums in Italy. Now linked with the Civic Art museum of Cortona, the complex is known as the MAEC (Museo dell’Accademia Etrusca e della Città di Cortona), Description The 18th-century spawned a renewed interest in an Italian, if not Tuscan, antiquity; to many the most autochthonous antiquity in Tuscany was assigned to the Etruscans. In Cortona, this coalesced to form the ''Etruscan Academy'', which originated as a literate "Society for the purchase of books" founded by the Venuti brothers in 1726. The next year, the a ...
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