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Museo Civico di Archeologia Ligure
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Museo Civico di Archeologia Ligure

📍 Viale Durazzo Pallavicini 11, Genova, 16155🏗 1936-01-01🏛 Italian national heritage

The Museo Civico di Archeologia Ligure stands as a repository of Ligurian prehistory, housed in the villa Durazzo-Pallavicini and opened as a civic museum in 1936. The villa itself was donated to the city in 1928 by the Pallavicini heirs with the condition that it serve cultural purposes, and in the early 1930s it was chosen to become the museum’s home. The collection gathers material recovered from Ligurian caves and wider coastal contexts, many once dispersed to other institutions, and catalogued through the guidance of Luigi Cardini (1898–1971) and, later, Luigi Bernabò Brea, who helped shape the display of life, occupations, and economy from roughly 100,000 years ago to the end of the Roman era. …

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