National Archaeological Museum of the Marches

The National Archaeological Museum of the Marches (Museo archeologico nazionale delle Marche) is an archaeological museum in Ancona, Marches, Italy. It is located in the Palazzo Ferretti, and 13,195 people visited the collections in 2015. History A plan to set up a region-wide archaeological collection in Ancona was first devised the day after approval was granted for the Royal Decree issued by Lorenzo Valerio, the Extraordinary Commissioner for the Marches, on 3 November 1860. It was a cause much advocated by Count Carlo Rinaldini (1824–1866), a scholar in epigraphy and the secretary of the Commission and by Carisio Ciavarini (1837–1905) from the town of Pesaro , a grammar-school Italian literature teacher. Both men were staunch patriots, supporters of the Italian Risorgimento and members of an enlightened ruling class who were. The collections The itinerary of the museum starts on the mezzanine level of the second floor with the Prehistoric section where a showcase with a "touchscreen" glass contains the Frassasi Venus, a precious statuette which is 28,000/25,000 years old. Worthy of note are some ancient Paleolithic instruments exhibits from Mount Conero which are about 300,000 years old, the Neolithic settlement of Ripabianca di Monterado (6th millennium BC), the Aeneolithic one of Conelle di Arcevia (3rd millennium BC), the twenty five bronze daggers from the depot of Ripatransone (roughly 1800–1600 BC), the Apennine and Subapennine pottery.