Museo Archeologico e d'Arte della Maremma
On the third floor of a mid-19th-century former courthouse on Piazza Baccarini, a 13th-century panel painting attributed to Guido da Siena hangs a short walk from an Etruscan bowl scratched with a Greek alphabet that is 2,600 years old. That proximity — sacred art and pre-Roman archaeology sharing the same building — is what makes this museum worth the five euros.
The collections move through the deep history of the Maremma: Etruscan funerary urns from Volterra and Chiusi, an Euboean krater dated to 730 BC, and the reconstructed hull of an African shipwreck pulled from the seabed near Giglio Porto. Five sections across forty rooms, none of them overwhelming.
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People who come back tend to linger on the third floor longer than they planned — specifically in front of Sassetta's "Madonna of the Cherries" and the pair of marble angels by G.A. and B. Mazzuoli. Download the Izi.Travel app before you arrive; the audio guide in English works well and costs nothing beyond your entry ticket.
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Book directly at the providerHow Museo Archeologico e d'Arte della Maremma came to be
Canon Giovanni Chelli, born in Siena in 1809, began assembling the collection that would become this museum in 1860, when Grosseto was a town of roughly 4,000 people. It passed into municipal hands in 1865, and in 1955 archaeologist Aldo Mazzolai took over as director of what had by then become an independent civic institution.
The decisive reorganisation came in 1975: the museum relocated to the Palazzo del Vecchio Tribunale, a mid-19th-century building on a medieval footprint, and absorbed the Diocesan Sacred Art Museum that Antonio Cappelli had founded in 1933. After closing in 1992 for a long restoration, it reopened on 21 March 1999 in the form visitors find today.
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