Museo Etrusco Guarnacci
The Museo Etrusco Guarnacci (in effect, the ''Guarnacci Museum of Etruscan art, Etruscan Artifacts'') is a public archeological museum located on Via Don Giovanni Minzoni #15 in Volterra, region of Tuscany, Italy. This was one of the first public museums in Italy, founded in 1761 by the aristocrat and abbott Mario Guarnacci (1701–1785). Description Guarnacci was a zealous collector of antiquities, and donated his collection, including over 600 funerary urns, to "the citizens of the city of Volterra". The donation also included a rich library of more than 50,000 volumes. Guarnacci himself published a contemporaneously controversial text, ''Origini Italiche'', claiming that Greek and Latin cultures had their origins in an antecedent Etruscan civilization. The first Museum was housed in Palazzo Maffei, Volterra, Palazzo Maffei in then Via Guidi, which had been purchased by Guarnacci to house his collection. At his death in 1785 the collection was moved to the 13th century Palazzo ...
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