The Archaeological Museum

The Archaeological Museum is located nearby on Piazza Santissima Annunziata, which you can reach from the Duomo (cathedral) by taking Via dei Servi until you come out onto Piazza Santissima Annunziata at its end.

Address: 9b Piazza Santissima Annunziata (visitor entrance: 38 Via della Colonna).

Opening hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, the 1st Sunday of the month and public holidays, 8:30–14:00; Tuesday and Thursday, 8:30–19:00. Closed on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Sundays of the month.

Admission: €8

The museum was inaugurated in 1880 in a 17th-century palace. On the first floor, the most interesting collection concerns Etruscan art. The most famous pieces are the Chimera known as that of Arezzo, discovered in 1553, the statue of the Orator of the 2nd century BC and a bronze Minerva, a Roman copy of a work by Praxiteles.