Il Museo Civico e la Pinacoteca Comunale di Foggia, established on October 28, 1931, are housed in the halls of Palazzo Arpi, in Piazza Nigri. The building stands on the street of the same name, which takes its name from the ancient city of Arpi, the largest in Daunia. Palazzo Arpi rises near the area where the imperial palace was erected by order of Frederick II of Swabia in 1223. Only a plaque and the archivolt of the entrance portal remain – supported by two eagles – created by the famous protomagister Bartolomeo da Foggia, embedded along the side of the Museum on Piazza Nigri. The Museum contains an archaeological section, an ethnographic section, an art gallery dedicated to 18th and 19th-century works, a lapidary, a Prints section, and the reconstruction of two fine Daunian tombs from the 4th-3rd century BC, the Medusa Tomb and the Knights’ Tomb.
Information about the Civic Museum of Foggia
Piazza Vincenzo Nigri 1 ,
71100 Foggia (Foggia)
0881726245
https://www.apuliamuseum.com
Source: MIBACT
