The Archeological Ubaldo Formentini Museum, La Spezia

The Archeological Ubaldo Formentini Museum

The Formentini Museum was founded in 1873. It is dedicated to Ubaldo Formentini, who was director of both the library and the museum between 1923 and 1958, and who had a great love of spezian and lunigian culture.
The museum is housed in the castle of San Giorgio, and is spread over two floors, taking people on a journey through time, from the prehistoric era to medieval times. The ground floor hosts a collection of Neolithic artefacts that were recovered from Isola Palmaria, Capo Corvo and Equi Terme, a collection of stele from the Iron Age, including all the stele of Pontevecchio, and historical evidence of the �castellari�, ancient settlements dating back the Bronze Age, which were recovered in the necropolis of Ameglia and Genicciola, in Podenzana. The second floor houses the Fabbricotti collection, which includes roman artefacts recovered from the city of Luni, such as funeral and domestic articles, statues and mosaics and pieces of marble dating back to Byzantine and Carolingian times.

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