Museum sights in East Of Bologna
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Museo della Città
Rimini’s Museo della Città displays paintings upstairs, including a haunting Pietà by Giovanni Bellini and an altarpiece by Domenico Ghirlandaio. However, the museum’s centrepiece is the archaeological section on the ground floor. Spread over several rooms, with excellent bilingual (Italian-English) signage, are finds from two nearby Roman villas, including splendid mosaics, a rare and exquisite representation of fish rendered in coloured glass, and the world’s largest collection of Roman surgical instruments. You can walk through a life-size reconstruction of the surgeon’s offices, then visit the original excavation site across the street at the recently opened Domus…
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Museo Archeologico Nazionale
You’ll find Etruscan artefacts, along with an impressive selection of Attic vases, in Palazzo di Ludovico il Moro at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale. Many finds came from the Etruscan town of Spina, near modern-day Comacchio.
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Museo della Cattedrale
The Museo della Cattedrale houses various artefacts from the cathedral, including a serene Madonna by Jacopo della Quercia, a couple of vigorous Cosimo Tura canvases, and some witty bas-reliefs illustrating the months of the year.
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Museo Nazionale
The Museo Nazionale is housed in the cloisters of a former Benedictine monastery. There’s a wealth of pottery, bronzes, icons and vestments, plus more Madonna and Child portraits than you can shake a halo at.
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Museo Arcivescovile
The tiny Museo Arcivescovile is well worth a visit for its fine collection of mosaics and an exquisite 6th-century ivory throne.
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Museo del Risorgimento e della Resistenza
The small Museo del Risorgimento e della Resistenza exhibits documents, proclamations and posters from the Italian unification movement and WWII, as well as numerous uniforms, guns and hand grenades.
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Museo Lapidario
The Museo Lapidario has a small, undocumented collection of Roman and Etruscan stele, tombs and inscriptions.
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Museo Fellini
Film buffs will enjoy the Fellini memorabilia at the newly relocated Museo Fellini.
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