Rimini museums

The present museum was born after many repeated, partial and precarious arrangements, thanks to the economic autonomy that it was granted in 1968, and the acquisition in 1979 of the building that had hosted the Civil Hospital for 150 years. This building, which is located in the town centre, had been constructed in the 18th century as a Jesuit "College". In 1981, a new section of the museum concerning the Roman epigraphs was opened in its internal court. In the meanwhile, they started a long, delicate and very exacting recovery work of the main building; the work still goes on in sections or lots, following a rational segmentation that has allowed the dressing and the fruition of a great part of it, from 1991 onward. The second lot was opened in 1994, exactly 50 years after the destruction of the old museum.

The Museum's materials are of very different typologies, but they are manly of local origins. They derive from Napoleon's suppressions at the end of 18th century, casual archaeological findings and excavations, donations, trusts, acquisitions. Their order in the new Museum follows a chronological rule, with some partial typological grouping (still lifes, portraits, coat of arms, etc...) compatibly with the rooms they dispose of.