Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography

|name          = Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography
|native_name   = Museo nazionale preistorico etnografico Luigi Pigorini
|native_name_lang = it
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|imagesize     = 250
|pushpin_map   = Rome
|caption       = The museum building photographed from the facing Museo Nazionale delle Arti e Tradizioni Popolari.
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|established = 1876 (1876)
|dissolved     =
|location      = Piazza Guglielmo Marconi 14, I-00144 Rome, Italy
|type          = archaeology, Art museum
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|website       = www.museocivilta.beniculturali.it

}} The Luigi Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography is a public and research museum located in Rome, Italy. Established in 1876^[1] by Luigi Pigorini, it is currently directed by Maria Antonietta Fugazzola.^[2] One important collection of the Pigorini houses is Neolithic artifacts from Lake Bracciano. Another is the early ethnographic collection of Athanasius Kircher.

References

Further reading

• Brizzi, Bruno [ed.] 1976 The Pigorini Museum Rome, Quasar. 424 page catalogue with hundreds of plates in colour and black and white.

External links

• Pigorini website
• European Virtual Museum

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