National Archaeological Museum of the Marche Region

The National Archaeological Museum of the Marche Region is an archaeological museum in Ancona, Marches, Italy.
It is located in the Palazzo Ferretti, and 13,195 people visited the collections in 2015.
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 Marche region, on 3 November 1860. It was a cause much advocated by Count Carlo Rinaldini , a scholar in epigraphy and the secretary of the Commission and by Carisio Ciavarini 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 extremely receptive to a positivist approach and keenly aware of the need to break away from the old regime. Creating a Museum which "would house any monuments from the Prehistoric Age onwards discovered in the local area", as Ciavarini started, was directly prompted by his specific academic interest but also by his desire to save the archaeological treasures of the Marche region from the onslaught of the rapacious antique market which was highly active at the time. Later on, the collections of the Museum would also greatly benefit from numerous chance findings as well as from routine excavations performed throughout the region. Indeed, the collection became so complete that the year after Ciavarini died in 1906 it was "royalised" and honoured with the title of the "National Museum of Ancona" .

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