Paolo Orsi Archaeological Museum
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Paolo Orsi Archaeological Museum

archaeological MuseumViale Teocrito 66. The National Archaeological Museum of Syracuse inaugurated in 1886 was located in Piazza Duomo. Since 1988, under the name of Paolo Orsi Archaeological Museum, it has been located in the premises of Villa Landolina. The Museum occupies two exhibition floors of 9.000 m2, and a basement of 3.000 m2, where an auditorium is located.

The museum includes artifacts dating from the prehistoric periods to the Greek and Roman ones from excavations in the city and from other sites in Sicily. The ground floor is divided into 4 sectors (ABCD), while the central body (Area 1) is dedicated to the history of the Museum and the materials exhibited in the individual sectors are briefly presented. Sector A is dedicated to prehistory (Upper Paleolithic-Iron Age); Sector B is dedicated to the Greek colonies of Sicily of the Ionic and Doric period. Sector C exhibits finds from the sub-colonies of Syracuse: Akrai (664 BC), Kasmenai (644 BC), Camarina (598 BC), Eloro. As well as finds from other centers of eastern Sicily and from Gela and Agrigento. Sector D, located on the first floor, was inaugurated in 2006 and contains finds from the Hellenistic-Roman period

Card insertion: Ignatius Caloggero

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Information contributions: Ignazio Caloggero, Web 

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