Museum Musas - Museo Storico Archeologico di Santarcangelo
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About the museum
Palazzo Cenci (The Cenci Palace)
Welcome to Musas.
You’re at the Palace where the noble family of the Cenci lived during the 19th century.
The Palace stands in the high part of the small medieval town of Santarcangelo, between the first and second circles of walls. It is located near the Porta Cervese gate and the monastery of Saints Catherine and Barbara, formerly a focal point of urban social life.
Today the building, restored during the 1980s, is laid out across five levels, and has an essentially cubic form, with brickwork of local production.
The building’s documentation is scarce, and dates from two principal phases.
In 1600, the part of the Palace facing onto Via Costa was built, with its portal made from white ashlar still in use today: an archway of projecting stone blocks encircles the large wooden entry doors. Flanking the entrance are two windows filled with wrought ironwork in the form of lilies. Between the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries the rear area, on Via dei Fabbri, was enlarged: here is located another entrance, preceded by a garden. To this period date the frescoes that still enrich the rooms of the so-called Piano Nobile, or “Noble Floor.”
After the acquisition of the Palace by the Municipality, during the 20th century the building was used for a variety of purposes, including that of a lazzaretto for victims of cholera.
Plan your visit
- MUSAS museo storico archeologico, 26, Via della Costa, Santarcangelo di Romagna, Unione di comuni Valmarecchia, Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, 47822, Italy
- https://www.musasantarcangelo.it/
Exhibits
Exhibits featured with audio
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Musas
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Room 1. The Ceramics Workshops
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Room 2. The Products
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From the Cabinet of Time: a Roman roof-tile
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From the Cabinet of Time: Roman wine amphora
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From the Cabinet of Time: a late Roman lamp
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Room 3. The agricultural territory
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From the Cabinet of Time: the Roman Index
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Room 4. Prehistory and Protohistory
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From The Cabinet of Time: a Neolithic Axe
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Room 5. The Parish Church
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From the Cabinet of Time: Late Roman tubulus
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Room 6. The Middle Ages and Renaissance
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From the Cabinet of Time: a panel from the 15th century wooden chancel
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An in-depth look: the 1385 polyptych
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Room 7. The Seventeenth Century
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Room 8. The Eighteenth Century
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From the Cabinet of Time: honorary arch of 1773
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Room 9. The Nineteenth Century
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From the Cabinet of Time: 19th century bas-relief
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From the Cabinet of Time: a Twentieth Century Brick
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