Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography
The "Luigi Pigorini" National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography was a public and research museum located in Rome, Italy. Established in 1875 and opened in 1876 by Luigi Pigorini, from 2016, its collections became part of the newly instituted Museo delle Civiltà, currently directed by Andrea Viliani. The museum was housed in the Collegio Romano from 1875 to 1923.
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- 1876.
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- Italy.
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The "Luigi Pigorini" National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography was a public and research museum located in Rome, Italy. Established in 1875 and opened in 1876 by Luigi Pigorini, from 2016, its collections became part of the newly instituted Museo delle Civiltà, currently directed by Andrea Viliani. The museum was housed in the Collegio Romano from 1875 to 1923.
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• Name — Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography • Native Name — Museo nazionale preistorico etnografico Luigi Pigorini • Established — 1876 • Type — Archaeology, Art museum • Website — https: www.museodellecivilta.it/preistoria-etnografia/ • Location — Piazza Guglielmo Marconi 14, I-00144 Rome, Italy
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By the time of Pigorini's death in 1925, the museum had amassed more than 170,000 items. These included Neolithic artifacts from Lake Bracciano, the early ethnographic collection of Athanasius Kircher, and the Praeneste fibula, the oldest known inscription in the Latin language. It also houses the Upper Paleolithic Venus of Savignano.
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- 1.Seite des Museums zur eigenen Geschichte.
- 2.Seite des Museums zur Sammlungsgeschichte.
- 3.Seite des Museums zum Bereich „Quando, come, perché“.
- 4.Seite des Museums zum Bereich „Homo. La storia naturale“.
- 5.Seite des Museums zum Bereich „Il Paleolitico. Cacciatori e raccoglitori“.
- 6.Seite des Museums zum Bereich „Dal villaggio alla città“.
- 7.Seite des Museums zum Bereich „Dal villaggio alla città“.
- 8.Seite des Museums zu Afrika.
- 9.Seite des Museums zu Amerika.
- 10.Seite des Museums zu Ozeanien.
- 11.Seite des Museums zu Asien.
- 12.Seite des Museums zur Bibliothek.
- 13.Seite des Museums zu den Archiven.
- 14.Seite des Museums zu den Laboratorien.
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