Museo Nazionale Etrusco "Pompeo Aria", Archaeological museum and park in Marzabotto, Italy.
The Museo Nazionale Etrusco is located in Marzabotto, Italy, combining an archaeological museum with an outdoor excavation site. It displays pottery, tools, jewelry, and other objects discovered during digs at this ancient settlement.
The site preserves remains of an Etruscan city from the 6th century BC, revealing advanced urban planning and building methods. The Etruscan civilization left clear evidence of its technical and artistic capabilities at this location.
The museum is named after Count Pompeo Aria, who in 1886 funded the classification of finds that had been kept at Villa Aria since the 1831 excavations. The display follows find areas: Attic vases, bronzes, tomb markers and balsamaria from the necropolises, architectural terracottas from the acropolis and houses, and a Greek kouros head found near the later-excavated temple of Tinia.
The museum stands at the edge of the archaeological area, which has belonged to the Italian state since 1933. Excavations are carried out every summer, so parts of the site may be closed or fenced while work is under way. The displays were rearranged in 1979 after losses in the Second World War.
Kainua, originally called Misa, stayed largely abandoned after the Celts took it in the mid-4th century BC, so its street grid from the later 6th century BC survives legible. Excavations have run every summer since the 1950s, and a Greek kouros head found near the later temple of Tinia shows contacts beyond Etruria.
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