Museo civico archeologico Cesare Cellini
Civic museum of Ripatransone with about 500 finds on display, from the Palaeolithic to the Roman era, with the main section devoted to the Picene civilisation.
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About the museum
The museum takes its name from Don Cesare Cellini, a canon of the cathedral, who gathered the first materials and founded it in 1877. Today it is a civic collection of Ripatransone, in the southern Marche, housed in the palace overlooking Piazza XX Settembre, where the tourist office is also located.
Of some 4,000 finds held, including coins, around 500 are on display in five rooms and a corridor. Almost all come from the municipal territory and allow the occupation of the area to be traced from prehistory to Roman civilisation: Palaeolithic and Neolithic–Eneolithic stone tools, Bronze Age materials and, above all, evidence of the Iron Age, that is, the Picene civilisation of the 9th–3rd centuries BC, largely of the 6th century BC.
The Roman section includes oil lamps, cinerary urns, a marble bust of Venus, a fragment of a fresco in the Pompeian style and a lapidarium with inscriptions. Since 1998 a medieval section has been displayed on the raised ground floor, with a carved baptismal font and Lombard fibulae, while since 2001 a modern section has preserved curiosities such as a brick used to wall up the Holy Door of St Peter's in 1775.
Highlights
- Picene collection with necklaces, large rings, helmets and a woman's tomb
- Monumental Roman cinerary urn of Aulus Volumnius Platanus
- Lapidarium with fragments of a calendar and inscriptions
- Medieval section with baptismal font and Lombard fibulae
- Brick from the Holy Door of St Peter's, 1775
Permanent exhibition
- Collezione archeologica permanente – Five rooms and a corridor with materials from prehistory to Roman civilisation, with Picene, medieval and modern sections.
- Founded
- 1877
- Operated by
- Comune di Ripatransone
Admission & discounts
| Adults | €3.50 |
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| Reduced | €2.50 |
Rates taken from a list of museums dated 2024; a ticket of €10 for the entire circuit of Picene museums is also indicated. It is advisable to check the rates at the tourist office.
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Plan your visit
| Good to know | Visits outside opening hours can be booked by writing to the tourist office. |
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