Museo Civico di Fondi
Civic museum in the Castello Caetani in Fondi, with a Roman epigraphic section and a medieval and modern section, including an alabaster Madonna and Child attributed to Domenico Gagini.
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About the museum
The Museo civico di Fondi was founded in 1877 as the “Collezione archeologica” (archaeological collection), on the initiative of the mayor Giovanni Sotis, after his encounter with the historian and epigraphist Theodor Mommsen. It is considered the oldest museum in the province of Latina. The collection, made up largely of ancient inscriptions recovered by Sotis, was first housed in the former convent of San Domenico and then in that of San Francesco. In the 1950s the archaeologist Domenico Faccenna catalogued it and oversaw a new display.
In 1997 the first part of the new museum was inaugurated on the ground floor of the Castello Caetani. It was designed as a “museo del territorio” (territorial museum), to conserve the local heritage and serve research and teaching, with explanatory panels and information cards for individual finds.
The route is divided into two sections. The first, epigraphic and archaeological of the Roman period, brings together architectural fragments, inscriptions, milestones, funerary urns and reliefs from monumental tombs, including a strigilated marble sarcophagus from the 3rd century AD discovered in 1998 in Via Purpurale. The second, medieval and modern, presents coats of arms of the families of L’Aquila, Caetani and Colonna, stone furnishings and the alabaster “Madonna and Child” attributed to Domenico Gagini (1458).
Highlights
- Strigilated marble sarcophagus from the 3rd century AD
- Collection of Roman inscriptions gathered by Giovanni Sotis
- Alabaster “Madonna and Child” attributed to Domenico Gagini (1458)
- Coats of arms of the families of L’Aquila, Caetani and Colonna
- Located in the Castello Caetani
Permanent exhibitions
- Sezione epigrafica e archeologica romana – Inscriptions, architectural fragments, milestones, funerary urns and reliefs, with the strigilated sarcophagus of the 3rd century AD.
- Sezione medievale e moderna – Coats of arms of noble families, stone furnishings and the alabaster relief of the Madonna and Child attributed to Domenico Gagini.
- Founded
- 1877
- Operated by
- Comune di Fondi
- Visitors per year
- approx. 20,000
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