Cartoteca storica delle Marche

About the museum

The Cartoteca storica delle Marche is housed in the Complesso di Santa Lucia in Serra San Quirico, a former monastery of the Silvestrine Fathers with a church and a monumental cloister linking the various rooms. The same complex also houses the Parco naturale regionale della Gola della Rossa e di Frasassi (regional nature park), the Museo di Storia Naturale del Territorio (Natural History Museum of the Territory) and the Museo Premio Ermanno Casoli 1998–2007. The collection is run by the Municipality of Serra San Quirico.

The collection offers an educational reconstruction of how the territory of the Marche was represented from the 15th century until the annexation of the Marche to the Italian State in 1860. It documents the historical knowledge of the region through maps, thematic cartography, atlases, prints, photographs, engravings and other graphic and audiovisual documents, for a total of more than three hundred items, enriched over the years by donations and purchases.

The rooms next to the cloister hold key works such as the maps of Mercator and Ortelius and Magini's map of the 17th century, which show the administrative and geographical evolution from the former Duchy of Urbino to the Papal State and the new unified state. In the third room is displayed a faithful reproduction of a terrestrial globe by the Venetian cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli. A bibliographic collection on cartography completes the collection. On request, the collection is open for study, research, educational activities and guided tours.

Highlights

• More than three hundred items among maps, atlases, prints and photographs of the Marche
• Maps by Mercator, Ortelius and Magini
• Reproduction of a terrestrial globe by Vincenzo Coronelli
• Cartography of the territory from the 15th century to 1860
• Housed in the cloister of the former Santa Lucia monastery

Permanent exhibition

• La rappresentazione cartografica delle Marche – Maps and charts from the 15th century to 1860, with works by Mercator, Ortelius and Magini and a reproduction of a Coronelli globe.

Operated by

Comune di Serra San Quirico

Visitors per year

approx. 1

Admission & discounts

Tariffs given in a listing of Italian museums from 2023; confirm by telephone.

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Getting there & parking

From the main square, climb the staircase to the right of the town hall as far as the church of Santa Lucia. The entrance to the cloister is beside the church entrance.

Amenities & dining

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