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Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi

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Tips from locals

Luca
January 2, 2017
The largest and maybe most important archaeological museum in Europe!
Roberto
May 27, 2019
Situated 500 meters from the Neapolis Archaeological Park, it is the ideal place to complete your visit to the park. A collection of statues, sculptures, ceramics and various objects ranging from the period of Sicilian prehistory to Greek colonization.
Mario
February 25, 2018
The Museum is plenty of Greek, Roman art interesting to visit
Serena
May 7, 2017
The museum comprises remains dating back to prehistoric times up to Greek and Roman ones.
Sharon E Lele
November 8, 2019
Established in the 18th century, since 1988 the museum is located in the headquarters of Villa Landolina and is dedicated to the great archaeologist Paolo Orsi, who carried out the main studies on the city. The Archaeological Museum "Paolo Orsi" collects the most important documentation of prehistory, the protohistory of Sicily and famous works of Greek and Roman art, ceramics, marbles, architectural decorations. The oldest finds range from the Paleolithic to the Bronze Age; notable objects that testify to The Egee, Anatolian and Mycenaean influences. Precious are the kits of the Greek-Sicule necropolis, the ceramic material, the dense reliefs, the archaic statues. Gemma of the Museum is the "Venus anadiomene", called Venus Landolina after her discoverer, a statue of Roman-Hellenistic invoice. The material also comes from excavations of the many Greek colonies of Sicily, from Megara Hyblea, to Eloro, Akrai, Kasmenai, Kamarina and from numerous Hellenized indigenous centers. Since 2010 it is also open to the public...
Established in the 18th century, since 1988 the museum is located in the headquarters of Villa Landolina and is dedicated to the great archaeologist Paolo Orsi, who carried out the main studies on the city. The Archaeological Museum "Paolo Orsi" collects the most important documentation of prehistor…

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Location
66 Viale Teocrito
Siracusa, Sicilia