Housed in the Rocca Albornoz, a fortress built in 1354 by Cardinal Gil Alvarez Carrillo de Albornoz which Bramante later renovated in an organic form in 1506 by redesigning the structure around a central courtyard framed by porticoes.

The Museum offers an overview of the most representative sites of inland Southern Etruria, with a focus on aspects of the everyday life of the Etruscan people. The highlights of the visit are the architectural terracotta and clay slabs from the settlement of Acquarossa (mid-6th century BC); the hoard found in the settlement of Musarna (2nd-1st century BC), which is a veritable ‘treasure trove’ consisting of a ceramic container containing approximately 1.000 silver denarii, and the mosaic with an Etruscan inscription from the same site, emblematic and extremely rare evidence of the process of the Romanisation of Etruria.

Another  of the collection’s highlights is a chariot, the first two-wheeled Etruscan chariot to be convincingly reconstructed, which was found in the trousseau of a woman’s tomb, dating to the last decades of the 6th century BC and discovered in 1967 in Ischia di Castro.

Museum images courtesy of Lazio Regional Museums Directorate