Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography

41°49′56″N 12°28′17″E / 41.83222°N 12.47139°E / 41.83222; 12.47139TypeArchaeology, Art museumWebsitewww.museocivilta.beniculturali.it

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^[1][2] by Luigi Pigorini, from 2016, its collections became part of the newly instituted Museum of Civilizations', currently directed by Andrea Viliani.^[3] The museum was housed in the Collegio Romano from 1875 to 1923.^[4]

Holdings

By the time of Pigorini's death in 1925, the museum had amassed more than 170,000 items.^[4]

One important collection of the Pigorini houses is Neolithic artifacts from Lake Bracciano. Another is the early ethnographic collection of Athanasius Kircher. The museum also conserves the Praeneste fibula, the oldest known inscription in the Latin language.^{[citation needed]}

References

Further reading

• Brizzi, Bruno [ed.] 1976 The Pigorini Museum Rome, Quasar. 424 page catalogue with hundreds of plates in colour and black and white.

External links

• Pigorini website
• European Virtual Museum
• Media related to Museo nazionale preistorico etnografico Luigi Pigorini at Wikimedia Commons

Preceded by Palazzo delle Esposizioni

Landmarks of Rome Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography

Succeeded by Porta San Paolo Railway Museum