VILLA GIULIA, Museum

Now that I've told you about the building, let me tell you more about what's inside it: the museum. It was established at the end of the 19th century and is dedicated to the other Italic civilizations that lived around the time of the Romans, especially the fascinating Etruscans. The museum is constantly expanding thanks to new Etruscan finds, but also thanks to the recovery of archaeological materials that had been exported illegally or stolen.

As you know, the Etruscans gave rise to the most important civilization of the Peninsula before the Romans. They arrived from south-eastern Europe around the year 900 BC and spread throughout central Italy. The main centers they inhabited, which are where most of the pieces you'll see in the museum come from, were in Tuscany and Lazio, including Arezzo, Volterra, Chiusi, Cerveteri, and Tarquinia, each with its own powers, features, and customs....