Museo archeologico di Palazzo Cappellani, Archaeological museum in Palazzolo Acreide, Italy
The Museo archeologico Gabriele Judica occupies the Palazzo Cappellani di Pirainito e Fùrmica in Palazzolo Acreide and displays finds from the Greek city of Akrai. Its two floors are arranged by period: prehistoric and protohistoric material below, and above it rooms for Corinthian colonisation, archaic, classical, post-classical, Hellenistic, Roman and late Roman finds. The collection holds vases, lamps, everyday objects, a Greek stele, unguentaria and prehistoric artefacts.
Baron Gabriele Judica carried out excavations at Akrai in the early 19th century and kept the finds in his palace. The collection remained intact there until a museum named after him opened on 27 December 2014 in Palazzo Cappellani di Pirainito e Fùrmica, home of an old noble Palazzolo family.
The museum is named after Baron Gabriele Judica, who excavated Akrai in the early 19th century and kept the finds in his palace. Most objects come from those excavations; others belong to the Ferla collection or come from the territory of Leontinoi. The displays include vases, lamps, everyday objects, a Greek stele, unguentaria and prehistoric finds.
The museum occupies two floors of Palazzo Cappellani di Pirainito e Fùrmica in Palazzolo Acreide. The lower floor holds the prehistoric and protohistoric finds; the upper floor is arranged by period, from the Corinthian colonisation room through archaic, classical, Hellenistic, Roman and late Roman rooms.
The museum opened on 27 December 2014 in the Palazzo Cappellani di Pirainito e Fùrmica, a noble Palazzolo Acreide family's palace, where Baron Gabriele Judica's early-19th-century Akrai finds had been kept intact for nearly two centuries before going on public display.
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