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Things to do in Province of Perugia, Umbria: The Best History Museums
The Province of Perugia (Italian: Provincia di Perugia) is the larger of the two provinces in the Umbria region of Italy, comprising two-thirds of both the area and population of the region. Its capital is the city of Perugia. The province covered all of Umbria until 1927, when the province of Terni was carved out of its southern third. The province of Perugia has an area of 6,334 km² covering two-thirds of Umbria, and a total population of about 660,000. There are 59 comunes (Italian: comuni) in the province. The province has numerous tourist attractions, especially artistic and historical ones, and is home to the Lake Trasimeno, the largest lake of Central Italy. It historically the ancestral origin of the Umbri, while later it was a Roman province and then part of the Papal States until the late 19th century.
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1. Museo Tela Umbra
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5.0 based on 22 reviews
2. Museo della Memoria
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5.0 based on 14 reviews
Documenti inediti, foto, riconoscimenti, saggi e oggetti su quel terribile periodo storico che ha rappresentato la seconda guerra mondiale, quando sfollati da ogni parte d'Italia e d'Europa arrivarono nella città serafica per cercare aiuto, e sui vari personaggi che si spesero in prima persona per salvare gli ebrei in Assisi.
3. Museo e Foro Romano
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4.5 based on 425 reviews
This well-preserved Roman temple to Minerva, with its famous classical façade, is now a Christian Church.
Reviewed By 82manuelal - Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
This Museum is located in Via Portica and represents the Roman life in this region; the temple of Minerva where is now the Commune, give an exemple, this museo has six columns in the entrance, looks like Panteon in Rome, and demonstrate the Roman aera and the temples of Forum Romanum; Many stones a & sculptures, to admire, merite a visit.
4. National Archaeological Museum of Umbria
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4.5 based on 219 reviews
Reviewed By Brun066 - Florence, Italy
It's uncertain whether Perugia was among the twelve major cities being part of the Etruscan confederation of Central Italy. It's possible that this uncertainty persists because the development of Perugia as true Etruscan city (since the end of the 4th century BC) is later than that of the other confederate cities, being it originally a settlement by the Umbrian people. On the other hand the architectural testimonies of the Etruscan walls and gates are the most impressive ever, so Etruscan Perugia is undoubtedly a historical phenomenon worthy of the utmost attention. This importance of the Etruscan city is also visible from the Archaeological Museum, which has therefore earned the title of "National Archaeological Museum of Umbria", despite the fact that in Umbria region there are many important archaeological remains and finds. The Museum also receives prestige from being housed in the imposing former San Domenico convent, and from being characterized by the large cloister that is at its center. Here the Museum has been housed since 1948: the collections are displayed on the two floors of the building surrounding the cloister. A large number of cinerary urns are on display, embellished with sculptures that the local aristocracy commissioned to artists of often great value, and who were inspired by Greek myths. The myths are illustrated by captions in Italian and English, which allow the visitor to recall the fascinating stories of these ancient civilizations. In my opinion, at least three halls cannot be overlooked, they are the following. The room that houses the splendid bronze plates and figurines (including many plaques once covering some parade or war carts) found in 1812 in San Mariano (a hamlet of Corciano municipality), 13 Km from Perugia. The works, dating back to the 6th century BC, had already been partly plundered by local farmers, so many dozens of them are today in Munich; but in the Museum still the majority of the pieces (180) remains. Then the underground environment in which the urban tomb of the "Cai Cutu" family, discovered in 1983, never violated, and used since the 3rd until the 1st century BC, was reconstructed on a 1:1 scale. It shows fifty carved urns, placed in their original position. Finally, the room dedicated to a tomb plundered much more recently (2003) and recovered in 2013: the tomb (equally internal to present-day Perugia, used in the second and first centuries BC) belonging to the "Cacni" family. The twenty-two urns coming from the tomb are richly decorated, featuring sculptures of high artistic level. There are also other objects found in the tomb: weapons, armor, ceramics, etc. In essence, even if there were only these noteworthy halls (and certainly not so), they would do this a museum not to be missed.
5. Antiquarium di Corciano
6. House Museum Palazzo Sorbello
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4.5 based on 207 reviews
In the old town centre of Perugia, near the Cathedral and Etruscan Well, an old palace dating to the 17th Century houses a valuable collection of paintings, porcelains, printed works, manuscripts and embroidered fabrics. The stately mansion of the Marchesi Bourbon di Sorbello welcomes visitors in rooms with vaulted ceilings, elegant 18th Century furnishings and chandeliers, as well as an evocative vista over Perugia and the Valley of Assisi. OPENING HOURS IN THE AFTERNOON, BESIDES IN THE MORNING, DURING THE SPRING/SUMMER SEASON AND IN THE MAIN HOLIDAYS OF THE YEAR
7. Museo Paleontologico "Luigi Boldrini"
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4.5 based on 6 reviews
8. Museo delle Porte e delle Mura Urbiche
9. Il Criptoportico Romano di Porta Ascolana
10. Museo Missionario Indios
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