{"id":580,"date":"2025-07-14T16:11:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T14:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parcoarcheologico.cortonamaec.org\/itineraries\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:54:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:54:30","slug":"discover-the-museum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cortonamaec.org\/en\/discover-the-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover the Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

The MAEC, Museo dell\u2019Accademia Etrusca e della Citt\u00e0 di Cortona \u2013 welcomes you to Palazzo Casali, in the heart of the city, with a unique itinerary that intertwines collections, stories and discoveries. In a single place, many voices coexist: the legacy of the Accademia Etrusca, the history of the city of Cortona and of its territory. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

Collections and Masterpieces of the MAEC Museum<\/h2><\/div>

The collections of the Accademia Etrusca<\/a>, housed in the museum, were born from the Enlightenment passion of the eighteenth century and have grown thanks to centuries of studies and donations. They bear witness to the fortune of Etruscology and to the fascination that Cortona exerted on travellers and scholars from all over the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the masterpieces of the museum stand out the famous Etruscan bronze chandelier, the important Egyptian collection, the noteworthy picture gallery and the precious eighteenth-century library. The museum narrates Etruscan and Roman Cortona through the finds coming from the territory: the refined bronzes from Trestina and Fabrecce, the gold grave goods from the great archaic tumuli, the extraordinary Tabula Cortonensis, up to the polychrome mosaics of the Roman villa of Ossaia, which restore the vivid image of a flourishing city through the centuries. The itinerary continues to the contemporary age, with works by Gino Severini, great Cortonese master of the twentieth century and leading figure of Futurism. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>