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Museo civico archeologico Monte Rinaldo

Civic museum in the historic centre of Monte Rinaldo with finds and votive terracottas from the late Republican Roman sanctuary of La Cuma; currently temporarily closed.

Temporarily closed

Website Directions

Temporarily closed. The website of the La Cuma archaeological area states that the museum is temporarily closed; the archaeological area can be visited by appointment.

About the museum

The civic museum holds part of the materials from the Roman sanctuary of La Cuma, a short distance from the village of Monte Rinaldo, in the southern Marche. The cult complex, dating to the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, comprised a main temple dedicated to Jupiter, a smaller cult building and a large portico enclosing the sacred area. It was brought to light in 1957 and is still under investigation.

After the 2016 earthquake, thanks to an agreement between the Soprintendenza delle Marche (heritage authority), the municipality of Monte Rinaldo, the University of Bologna and the British School at Rome, new systematic research began, accompanied by the documentation and restoration of the finds from the excavations. Some of these materials are presented in the permanent exhibition “Il santuario di Monte Rinaldo: archeologia del sacro”, set up in the “Giovanni Graziosi” room of Palazzo Fossi, in the centre of the village.

The finds, including fragments of architectural decoration and terracotta votive objects, illustrate the architecture and decorative apparatus of the sanctuary and the forms of worship practised there. Other finds from the same excavation are kept at the National Archaeological Museum of the Marche in Ancona.

Highlights

Architectural terracottas of the temple of La Cuma
Terracotta votive objects from the sanctuary of Monte Rinaldo
Exhibition “Il santuario di Monte Rinaldo: archeologia del sacro”
Link to the archaeological area of La Cuma, a short distance from the village

Permanent exhibition

Il santuario di Monte Rinaldo: archeologia del sacro – Fragments of architectural decoration and terracotta votive objects from the Roman sanctuary of La Cuma, in the “Giovanni Graziosi” room of Palazzo Fossi.