The Pigorini Museum in Rome houses two floors of artifacts, some of which date all the way back to almost 500B.C. This museum is a part of the band of European museums. Below is some information about the museum.
The Museum Today
The Pigorini Museum is now organized in two branches: Ethnography and Prehistory. The first one, at the first floor, devoted to the important ethnological collection from Africa, Oceania and recently too America (partly again in progress); meanwhile the last section - Asia - is planned for 2006.
The Prehistory
The prehistoric exhibition, at the second floor, starts with an introductory section conceived as an explanation of the stratigraphic approach in modern archaeological research, realized throw suggestive reconstructions of true archeosurfaces and goes on with the so called 'Evolution Box', an innovative tool of communication that is actually the 'blockbuster' of our young visitors. A more classic exposition of the prehistoric collections is presented in the following parts of the Museum, with several thousand of objects and contexts from the major Italian and European sites.
The Public
The public of the Pigorini Museum - around 40.000 visitors each year - comprises mainly scholars and prehistory-fans, with well oriented interests on certain items in the exhibited collections or in the deposits, and alumni of the low and high schools, as shows the monitoring of the visiting flows during the year with clear peaks in the winter and autumn months.
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