La Rocca Albornoz, home of the National Archaeological Museum of Viterbo, of which the last three sections are being completed, was built in 1354 by Cardinal Gil Alvarez Carrillo de Albornoz. After a series of destructions and renovations, Julius II in 1506 called Bramante, to whom the courtyard and central fountain are attributed. After the last war devastations, the restoration carried out by the Civil Engineering Corps from 1960 to 1979 was overseen by the Lazio B.A.A. Superintendency together with the Archaeological Superintendency for Southern Etruria, which designated the structure as a museum site. Currently, the ground floor houses the section “Etruscan Architecture in Viterbo area,” with artifacts from the Swedish excavations of Acquarossa and S. Giovenale, through a series of interesting reconstructions of archaic Etruscan houses, with largely original elements. On the first floor, artifacts from the Etruscan-Roman center of Musarna are exhibited, from which comes the exceptional mosaic with inscription in Etruscan alphabet and the sculptural and architectural decoration from the theater of Ferento, featuring the cycle of the Muses.
Information about Rocca Albornoz National Etruscan Museum
Piazza della Rocca, 21/b
01100 Viterbo (Viterbo)
0761325929
pm-laz@beniculturali.it
https://www.polomusealelazio.beniculturali.it/index.php?it/174/museo-nazionale-etrusco-rocca-albornoz
Source: MIBACT
