Museo della città di Bettona
Civic museum in Bettona with a picture gallery (Perugino, Dono Doni) and an Etruscan and Roman archaeology section in the Palazzo del Podestà and Palazzo Biancalana.
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About the museum
The Museo della città di Bettona brings together the civic picture gallery and the archaeological section in Piazza Cavour. The rooms are in two adjoining buildings: the Palazzo del Podestà, built in 1367 during the rebuilding of the village promoted by Cardinal Albornoz after its destruction by the Perugians, and the neoclassical Palazzo Biancalana. In the Palazzo del Podestà the fresco of the Maestà with saints of 1380 is still preserved.
The picture gallery was founded in 1904 and holds around sixty works from the 13th to the 19th century, mostly paintings of the Umbrian school of the 15th and 16th centuries. Artists represented include Perugino, Tiberio d'Assisi, Fiorenzo di Lorenzo and Dono Doni, whose Adoration of the Shepherds of 1543 is on display; there are also a 15th-century polychrome wooden Crucifixion and 17th-century paintings. In 1987 twenty-eight works were stolen to order and recovered only in 1990.
The archaeological section, on the ground floor of Palazzo Biancalana, presents Etruscan and Roman finds from the area, including cippi (boundary stones), ceramics and a marble head of Aphrodite from the mid-Imperial period. From the lower floor one can access a medieval well discovered under Piazza Cavour.
Highlights
- Dono Doni, Adoration of the Shepherds (1543)
- Works attributed to Perugino
- Maestà with saints, 1380 fresco in the Palazzo del Podestà
- Marble head of Aphrodite from the mid-Imperial period
- Medieval well under Piazza Cavour
Permanent exhibitions
- Pinacoteca civica – Around sixty works from the 13th to the 19th century, mostly from the Umbrian school, including works attributed to Perugino and Dono Doni.
- Sezione archeologica – Etruscan and Roman finds from the area and access to a medieval well under Piazza Cavour.
- Founded
- 1904
- Operated by
- Comune di Bettona
- Visitors per year
- approx. 3,532
Admission & discounts
| Adults | €7 |
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| Reduced | €5 |
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Plan your visit
| Good to know | The archaeology section is on the ground floor of Palazzo Biancalana, where the entrance is; the picture gallery is on the first floor of the Palazzo del Podestà. |
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