With the attendance data for 25 April, which once again confirms the National Museum of Abruzzo among the most visited in Italy in the MiC ranking (over 1,700 visitors), on Wednesday 1 May the Munda, in L’Aquila, will also be open in both locations.
The museum in via Tancredi da Pentima, in front of the 99 cannelle, will be open from 8.30am to 7.30pm. Last entry at 7pm.
The Franciscan Hall was temporarily set up with 14 drawings from the donation of a private collector, in memory of Carmela Gaeta, in dialogue with the seven paintings on canvas by Giulio Cesare and Francesco Bedeschini from the Munda collections. This will allow the extraordinary maintenance of the works that were displayed in the Franciscan Hall in anticipation of their future exhibition in the restored spaces of the sixteenth-century Castle.
The Mammoth at the 16th century Castle opening hours 9.30 – 18.30.
Last entry at 6pm. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the discovery of the Mammoth, a documentary exhibition at the East Bastion to retrace the phases of the discovery, recovery and study of the specimen under the direction of Professor Angiola Maria Maccagno, director of the Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the University of Rome. Recent archival research requires the date of discovery to be revised. In fact, the information from Anonima Materiali Argillosi to the Superintendence of Antiquities of Abruzzi and Molise was dated 17 March 1954, communicating the discovery of the first remains. The news was then released on March 25 by Corriere della Sera and picked up by other newspapers in the following days. On 15 November 1957, the general director of Antiquities and Fine Arts, Guglielmo de Angelis d’Ossat, on behalf of the then Minister of Public Education Aldo Moro, declared his interest in guaranteeing the setting up of a paleontology section at the National Museum of Abruzzo with the Mammoth, then exhibited to the public from 1960 in the East Bastion of the sixteenth-century Castle.
Access tickets can be purchased directly at the ticket office, on the Italian Museums portal at the link www.museiitaliani.it or on the Musei Italiani app.
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