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Tuscolano Museum in the Aldobrandini Stables - Frascati

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The new archaeological Museum has recently been established in the ex-Stables of Villa Aldobrandini, which had undergone architectural renovation and preparation to become a museum in the 1990s by the architect Massimiliano Fuksas.

Inaugurated in 2000, the Museum is arranged in two exhibitive spaces on the ground floor, a didactic workshop on the mezzanine floor, a room for temporary shows and an auditorium on the first floor.

The itinerary, which is divided into thematic-chronological sections and contains archaeological objects that range from the Protohistoric to the Middle Ages from archaeological digs in Tuscolo and the Tuscolana area, is organized in both rooms on the ground floor, around a central column, inside of which, on bronze stands of different heights, many small relics, mainly in terracotta and stone, are situated.

There are epigraphs and sculptures from the imperial age and after on the lateral walls and, on reinforced concrete pedestals and shelves house capitals, urns, frames, lintels, coins and marmoreal statues – of special note is a replica of the Afrodite Urania fidiaca, recognised by P. Moreno as an original Hellenistic work. Also of special interest are the archaised “Dioniso Braschi”, to which has been added by G. Cappelli a statue of a panther and a hairy satyr, restored as Hercules.

The second room also houses a historical-artistic section about the great Renaissance, Baroque and eighteenth-century villas in the area of Tuscolano.

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