Museo Barracco di Scultura Antica

Local nameMuseo di scultura antica Giovanni Barracco
LocationVatican City, Rome, Italy

Museo Barracco di Scultura Antica is a museum in Rome, Italy, featuring a collection of works acquired by the collector Giovanni Barracco, who donated his collection to the City of Rome in 1902.

Among the works are Egyptian, Assyrian, and Phoenician art, as well as Greek sculptures of the classical period. The 400 works of the collection are divided according to the civilization and are displayed in nine rooms, on the first and second floors, while the ground floor contains a small reception area.

On the first floor Egyptian works are presented in Rooms I and II. Room II includes works from Mesopotamia, including cuneiform tablets of the third millennium BCE and items from neo-Assyrian palaces dating from the ninth and seventh centuries BCE.

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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_Barracco_di_Scultura_Antica

Official Website http://www.museobarracco.it/

Address 13B Vicolo dell'Aquila, Roma 00186, Italy

Coordinates 41°53'48.544" N 12°28'21.348" E

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