What to do and see in Province of Terni, Umbria: The Best Specialty Museums

The fascinating story of an everyday productIn order to make the most of and help the public know more about the agricultural life of Umbria, the Vecchio Frantoio Bartolomei has created a museum of its own, collecting old machinery and vintage objects regarding the cultivation of olives.The Olive Oil Museum displays one of the rare examples of sixteenth-century presses as well as antiques, archaeological finds, curios and machines used up to a few years ago that bear witness to the time-honored devotion and passion of the Bartolomei family for this type of agriculture.

Nel Pleistocene, circa 265.000 anni fa, proprio dove sorge l’abitato di San Venanzo, si aprirono tre piccoli crateri vulcanici che produssero alcune delle rocce e dei minerali più rari al mondo. Alle due colate laviche è stato dato il nome di “Venanzite”, una roccia studiata dalla fine del 1800 per la sua insolita origine e composizione, che ha reso il paese di San Venanzio famoso in tutto il mondo, anche al di fuori degli ambienti specialistici. Il Museo Vulcanologico, situato nel centro storico del paese, è nato per illustrare in modo divulgativo, l’origine dell’area vulcanica di San Venanzoo e per metterla in relazione con la dinamica terrestre. All’interno, attraverso percorsi tematici connessi ad allestimenti interattivi e interessanti collezioni di rocce minerali, i visitatori saranno introdotti nell’affascinante mondo dei vulcani e della geologia in generale. Il museo propone programmi didattici per le scuole di ogni ordine e grado…

The Antiquarium of Baschi is a small museum that contains all the materials that come from the archaeological excavations of Scoppieto, a place near the village of Baschi. The archaeological site of Scoppieto was discovered in 1995 by the University of Perugia. The discovery of the site revealed a productive installation for "terra sigillata italica" pottery and oil lanterns.

The Museum "Claudio Faina" of Orvieto is one of the more important Italian archaeological collections. It was put together by the Counts Mauro and Eugenio Faina between the 1860s and 1880s. It includes a coin cabinet composed of more than three thousand coins, prehistoric and protohistoric finds, buccheri, Etruscan figured pottery, bronzes, jewelry. The Attic black-figure and red-figure pottery, attributed to some of the greatest ceramists active in Athens at the time, is exceptional. The ground floor houses the Museo Civico, which exhibits the antiques collected during the nineteenth century by the City of Orvieto such as the "Venus" of Cannicella, the cippus in the shape of the head of a warrior, and the sculptural decoration of the pediment of the Temple of Belvedere. The museum is located right opposite the Cathedral of Orvieto.