Archaeological Museum of Bologna

Located on the museum’s room IV, first floor, the Gipsoteca contains plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculptures in the round and reliefs.

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With a renewed layout dating from 2009, the room presents about 4,000 objects from Roman times; for the most part, these are commonplace items, offering a useful reflection of everyday…

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This room, dedicated to Greek and Roman sculpture, has maintained its original appearance as the arrangement of busts and portraits on shelves faithfully reflects an 18th-century museographical concept linked to…

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This room contains materials concerning the Etruscans and other populations in Italy before the Roman domination. The intention of Edoardo Brizio, the first director and cataloguer of the 19th-century museum,…

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Rooms Xa, X and Xb contain the Etruscan antiquities excavated in Bologna and surroundings between the mid-19th century and the early 20th century, a period in which the combination of…

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This room on the museum’s first floor presents the funeral trappings from the 4th and 3rd century bc. It constitutes a natural continuation from the large room X with its…

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