Museo Civico [Civic Museum]
The Museum was founded in 1982. It displays archaeological findings dating from the lower Palaeolithic Age to the Middle Ages, and collections of mineral and zoological fossils from the local territory. Noteworthy in the paleontological section is the fossilised whale skeleton. The section dedicated to ethnography contains a collection of African objects.
Address:
Montaione, Via Cresci 15
Geographic coordinates:
43.553 - 10.9115
Tel:
0571 699255; 0571 6991 (Comune di Montaione)
Opening Hours:
From April to June and from September to October, from Monday to Saturday: 9.30 a.m.-12.30 a.m.; July and August: 9.30 a.m.-12.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m.-7.00 p.m.; from December 24 to 31, from Monday to Saturday: 9.30 a.m.-12.30 a.m.
Tickets:
Full price: € 1,50; age under 15, over 65, groups made up of more than 15 people: € 1,00
Visiting conditions:
With paid ticket
Historic-scientific interest:
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Texts by Graziano Magrini
English translation by Catherine Frost
Last update 25/feb/2008