Museums in sienese territory. Cultural itineraries in and arround Siena. Ediz. illustrata

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From north-west to south-east, from San Gimignano to Castellina in Chianti to Abbadia San Salvatore and Chiusi, the province of Siena is dotted with a great number of museums, distributed among the capital and the smaller towns of the area. Thirty-four of them belong to a single system under the aegis of the Sienese Museums Foundation, including not only important archaeological and artistic museums, but also ethnographic, scientific and naturalistic ones. Some of these extend beyond the walls of museum buildings, as they are at the heart of parks or archaeological excavations, in the middle of towns or mining areas, or – like the Sharecropping Museum in Buonconvento, the Museum of the Landscape in Castelnuovo Berardenga, or the Museum of the Woods in Orgia – have the history and current reality of the surrounding territory as their subject. All, without exception, conserve works of art, discoveries and objects of inestimable value, produced over the course of the centuries by this territory. Our territory has conserved, largely intact, its exceptional landscape and cultural significance, to the point that it truly constitutes an enormous open-air museum. The museums disseminated through the province of Siena are thus not self-determining structures, but rather are integral parts of a context made up of towns, castles, parish churches, villas and farmhouses. Adhering to the fabric of the province’s historic towns and villages, their network is a bit like a sort of nerve system: each museum ideally branches out into a territory which is in turn condensed in it, enriching the system of which it is a part, and deriving an added value from its belonging to that same system. The Sienese Museums Foundation, the Lions Club of Siena and Nuova Immagine Editrice have promoted the realisation of this guidebook to reflect and enhance these particular qualities. Naturally, it is a concise book, which does not aim to substitute the far more in-depth guidebooks offered by each ind Cover Contents Presentations Introduction Siena. Museo Civico e Torre del Mangia Siena. Museo di Storia Naturale dell’Accademia dei Fisiocritici onlus Siena. Museo Diocesano d’Arte Sacra Oratorio di San Bernardino Siena. Orto Botanico ed Erbario Castellina in Chianti, Museo Archeologico del Chianti Senese Castelnuovo Beradenga, Museo del Paesaggio Poggibonsi, Parco Archeologico e Tecnologico San Gimignano, Galleria d’Arte moderna e Contemporanea “Raffaele De Grada” San Gimignano, Musei Civici Palazzo Comunale, Pinacoteca, Torre Grossa San Gimignano, Museo Ornitologico San Gimignano, Spezieria di Santa Fina, Museo Archeologico Casole d’Elsa, Museo Civico e della Collegiata Colle di Val d’Elsa, Museo Archeologico Colle di Val d’Elsa, Museo Civico e Diocesano Colle di Val d’Elsa, Museo del Cristallo Radicondoli, Museo “Le energie del territorio” Asciano, Museo Civico Archeologico e d’Arte Sacra Palazzo Corboli Asciano, Museo Cassioli Pittura senese dell’Ottocento Buonconvento, Museo d’Arte Sacra della Val d’Arbia Buonconvento, Museo della Mezzadria Senese Petroio, Museo della Terracotta San Giovanni d’Asso, Museo del Tartufo Serre di Rapolano, Museo della Grancia Abbadia San Salvatore, Parco Museo Minerario Galleria livello VII Castiglione d’Orcia, Sala d’Arte San Giovanni Rocca di Tentennano Montalcino, Raccolta archeologica, medievale, moderna Moticchiello, TePoTraTos – Scene del teatro popolare tradizionale toscano Pienza, Museo Diocesano Murlo, Antiquarium di Poggio Civitate Orgia, Museo Etnografico del Bosco e della Mezzadria Cetona, Museo Civico per la Preistoria del Monte Cetona – Parco Archeologico Naturalistico e Archeodromo di Belverde Chianciano Terme, Museo Civico Archeologico delle Acque Chiusi, Museo Civico “La città sotterranea” Montepulciano, Museo Civico e Pinacoteca Crociani Sarteano, Museo Civico Archeologico Glossary Index of places Index of names