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The
Archaeological museum
"G.Allevi" is situated
inside an 19th century
building De Castellotti
- Pagnanelli, since
1998, it also hosts the
pillow lace museum,
folks custom museum,
and the painting
gallery and so forms a
cultural
pole
HISTORICAL
MENTIONS:
The museum was founded
thanks to a series of
excavations undertaken
in the 2nd half of the
1800 by the arch.
Guglielmo Allevi
(1834-1896).
Immediately after
having prepared in an
aisle of the ex
monastery of St.
Agostino and opened to
the public, became one
of the main private
archaeological
collections of the
province.
In
1898, after the death
of the archaeologist,
it was acquired by the
Council of Offida.
Destined to be used by
the local school, in
1950 the museum was set
up and deposited in a
room of the town hall,
where it remained for
over 20 years.
Between 1972 and 1976
it was catalogued,
re-organized and set up
by the various Italian
archaeological groups
of Italy in two rooms
of the Council.
In
1996, in occasion of
the centennial
manifestations for the
death of Allevi, the
museum was furnished
with new didactic
equipment, while in
1998, because of the
arrangement of the
museum in the new
complex, new showcases
were acquired to
display objects.
MATERIALS:
However there is
conserve and still
intact the fundamental
core of the "Officina
litica", of the two
important necropolis of
Offida and Spinetoli,
together with templar
decorations of the
republican age
attributed to the
legendary "OPHYS
temple", the
vicissitudes of 120
years of life have
reduced assets of the
museum from 4200
archaeological findings
in 1880 to about
1500 catalogued by the
Archeoclub in
1996.
ORGANIZATION AND
DIDACTICS:
Today, the
collection has been
displayed in the new
rooms of the museum
following a precise
detailed of the museum
following a precise
detailed typological
order. For the setting
up it has been
ampliated and kept,
like it was carried out
and conserved by the
exhibition in 1996.
·
Room 1: life and
works of Guglielmo
Allevi
·
Room 2:pre
history: archaeological
findings of the middle
Palaeolithic, upper
Neolithic and the
bronze age
·
Room 3: the
Picene
civilization-bronze and
arms
· Room
4: the Picene
civilization - ceramic
and
bronze crockery
· Room 5:
Roman and Lombard
period
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