National Museum of Oriental Art
Rome's National Museum of Oriental Art "Giuseppe Tucci" (Italian: Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale 'Giuseppe Tucci') was a museum in Rome, Italy, that was dedicated to the arts of the Orient, from the Middle East to Japan. The museum was located in Via Merulana 248 in the Rione Esquilino.
Also recorded as Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale "G. Tucci"
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Rome's National Museum of Oriental Art "Giuseppe Tucci" (Italian: Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale 'Giuseppe Tucci') was a museum in Rome, Italy, that was dedicated to the arts of the Orient, from the Middle East to Japan. The museum was located in Via Merulana 248 in the Rione Esquilino.
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• Name — National Museum of Oriental Art • Native Name — Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale Giuseppe Tucci • Established — 1957upright • Type — archaeology, Art museum • Website — www.museorientale.beniculturali.it • Location — Via Merulana, 248, 00185 Rome, Italy
History
History
It was founded in 1957 and closed in 2017, when its collections were transferred to the Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography in the city's southern EUR suburb, and subsequently to the Museo delle Civiltà.
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National Museum of Oriental Art is associated with Italy. Recorded from 1957.
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1957
National Museum of Oriental Art established.
1957
National Museum of Oriental Art is recorded from 1957.
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The museum was founded upon a collection of art objects from Nepal, Tibet and Ladakh that Giuseppe Tucci had acquired during his travels in 1928–1948. Later acquisitions included a notable group of artifacts from the Gandhara area, that had been acquired from the archaeological missions of the Italian Institute for Middle and Far East (IsMEO) to the Buddhist and protohistoric sites of Swat, namely the Butkara Stupa, Barikot, Panr, and Aligrama among others. Other holdings include items from the Palace of Mas'ud III and the Buddhist shrine of Tape Sardar at Ghazni, Afghanistan, and the prehistoric city of Shahr-e Sokhteh, in eastern Iran.
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