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  • Entrance to the Ecomuseo dell'Alabastro - Volterra Museum Unit.zoom in altra finestra

Ecomuseo dell'Alabastro - Punto Museale di Volterra [Ecomuseum of Alabaster - Museum Station of Volterra]

The Ecomuseum of Alabaster purposes to study, preserve and valorise the characteristic alabaster activity of the area that embraces the Communes of Castellina Marittima, Santa Luce and Volterra. The museum station of Volterra proposes the alabaster manufacture and marketing itinerary from the Etruscans to the present day. One section is dedicated to techniques, and another to manufacture history.

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Texts by Graziano Magrini

English translation by Victor Beard

Last update 08/feb/2008