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Places to see in ( Lipari - Italy ) Museo Archeologico Regionale Eoliano
Places to see in ( Lipari - Italy ) Museo Archeologico Regionale Eoliano
The Luigi Bernabò Brea Regional Aeolian Archaeological Museum is located in the castle complex that dominates the island of Lipari and is named after Luigi Bernabò Brea , a great archaeologist and Superintendent of Eastern Sicily (1939-1973).
The museum was built after World War II and contains, for the most part, archaeological finds from systematic excavation campaigns, conducted by archaeologists Luigi Bernabò Brea and Madeleine Cavalier , in the territory of the Aeolian Islands .
It consists of over 40 rooms, located in different buildings of the Castle complex, and divided into several sections:
Prehistoric . Classical section - dedicated to the materials of the archaic, classical [1] , Roman and Byzantine age. Hall of the subaqueous archeology. Epigraphic - memorial stones and stele of the Greco-Roman necropolis of Lipari Of the smaller islands - prehistoric finds from the smaller islands ( Punta Milazzese to Panarea , Capo Graziano to Filicudi ) Vulcanology - geomorphology and volcanism of the Aeolian Islands. Paleontological - of the quaternary
in which are exposed architectural structures, examples of sculpture in marble and stone, funerary objects, vases, cippi, tombstones and stone sarcophagi that testify to the life of the polis and the evolution of the cult of the dead . Also ceramics of various types and shapes, theatrical masks and clay statues.
Then there are two separate sections of the museum located on the islands of Panarea and Filicudi and many materials are exhibited in the Civic Antiquarium of Salina. The materials, dated from prehistory to our days in Italian and English , which makes usable the knowledge of the same contextualized to the place of discovery.
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