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Civic Museum of Bari

The Civic Museum of Bari is located in the historic center of the city and is located in the Town Hall. The building of medieval origin is composed of a rectangular complex with a three-storey tower. Over the centuries the building has undergone changes with overlapping styles and constructions. The Palace is located in the archaeological area of ancient Bari, where many artifacts have been found. Among the assets conserved in the Museum of considerable value is the cradle of the Marquis of Montrone, a precious artefact carved on walnut wood in meccato silver dating back to the second half of the eighteenth century. The museum collection exhibited in the Civic Museum includes numerous artistic and documentary assets received as a donation from the Tanzi family in 1935. They reproduce some illustrious members of the family who came to Bari in the wake of Isabella Sforza d'Aragona. The documents in the archive constitute an enormous wealth of information for the reconstruction of civic and regional history from the sixteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century and constitute a dense network of evidence on the evolution of the political, economic, commercial and social structure on earth. of Bari, in the succession of the different historical periods. The section dedicated to the Antonelli Matteucci Fund is also of great value. There are 500 negatives on glass plate and photographic prints.

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Str. Sagges, 13
70122 Bari

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