Archaeological Museum of Bologna

The Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna has been in the 15^th-century Palazzo Galvani since its official inauguration on 25^th September, 1881.

It contains the exceptional archeological collections from the former Museo Universitario, the donated collection of painter Pelagio Palagi, and from the excavations effected in Bologna and the surrounding area between the end of the 19^th century and the early 20^th century.

The museum has one of the most important archaeological collections in Italy and is above all strong in holdings concerning local history, from prehistory to Roman times.

Its Etruscan section offers a starting point for discovering the culture of Etruria in the Po valley, which had Bologna as its capital, the Etruscan Felsina.

The classical collections conserve masterpieces of Greek and Roman art; there is also an important collection of Egyptian antiquities, one of the most important of Europe.