One of the most important museums in Italy for the richness and variety of finds, ceramics with unique shapes and representations all inserted in a building of great architectural importance, the Vitelleschi Palace. The museum is located in Piazza Cavour, in the historic center of Tarquinia, a few kilometers from Viterbo.
Il museum overlooking an internal courtyard where different rooms open up and going up to the first floor you can dive into a real journey through time admiring a rich collection of artifacts dating from the Villanovan period to the Roman one through the Orientalizing, with the equipment of the Bocchoris tomb, and the archaic and classical age, with extraordinary examples of Greek and Etruscan vase painting in its various forms. Equine protome amphorae are among the oldest in Tarquinia, together with other black-figure pottery such as the cup of Xenokles painter and the amphorae of the painter from Antimenes. Finally, Etruscan and Roman materials of gold and votive objects are exhibited from the so-called sanctuary of the Ara della Regina.
On the second floor, in the magnificent Sala delle Armi, the exhibition of finds from the excavations of the Civita and the elegant sculpture of winged horses, famous all over the world and found in the Ara della Regina, of which it was part of the decoration of the pediment .
For the visit
Opening hours: 8,30 - 19,30 (last admission one hour before the ticket office closes) from Tuesday to Sunday
Price: 6 €; reduced 3 euro for citizens under the age of 18 and over 65
