Il Museo della Città is divided into three exhibition venues all located along the road axis that coincides with the urban crossing of the Via Francigena, which still remains the backbone of the urban layout of the historic center. At the southern entrance of the city is the detached venue of the Torre Julia de Jacopo or Porta del Santo Sepolcro, which houses a considerable collection of archaic majolica, found in the former convent of Sant’Agostino. At the far north of the town, near the Porta della Ripa leading towards Siena, is the second detached venue inside the former convent of the Minor Conventual Friars, where numerous paintings belonging to the Franciscan convent’s art gallery are exhibited. The main venue, within the city, is housed in the rooms of the former Bishop’s Palace built following the establishment of the new diocese of Acquapendente in 1649. Here, it is possible to admire the works of the sacred art collection—paintings on canvas and panel, liturgical vestments, furnishings—in which stand out the marble bust of Innocent X by the seventeenth-century sculptor Alessandro Algardi and the lunette with the dead Christ among angels (circa 1505) by Girolamo di Benvenuto. The main venue also hosts a fine collection of ceramic artifacts resulting from intense excavation activity focused on the Acquapendente area. The finds are chronologically placed over a period ranging from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, testimony to continuous productive activity for centuries. On the second floor, it is possible to visit a new museum section dedicated to the theme of the Francigena, developed along an exhibition path accompanied by a large model that, over a length of more than twenty-six meters, depicts the Via Francigena from Canterbury to Rome. The general topics addressed along the route tackle, with the aid of videos and exhibitions of artifacts, concepts and aspects of the civilizations that the road has connected over the centuries, such as the themes of faith and pilgrimage, commerce, borders and communications, sieges and war, hospitality, and folklore.
MUSEO DELLA CITTA’- Palazzo Vescovile- via Roma n. 85 Acquapendente (VT) sito internet: www.museoacquapendente.it e-mail: museo.civ.dioc@comuneacquapendente.it telefono: 0763 7309205 Ufficio cultura comune di Acquapendente
Information about Museo della città di Acquapendente
Via Roma, 85
01021 Acquapendente (Viterbo)
0763730065 – 0763730246
museo.civ.dioc@comuneacquapendente.it
https://www.museoacquapendente.it
Source: MIBACT
