National Etruscan Museum
As you come to the National Etruscan Museum—Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia—you’re stepping into a villa with a political past. Villa Giulia was built for Pope Julius III, and it stayed in papal hands until 1870, when the Risorgimento and the collapse of the Papal States brought it into the Kingdom of Italy. The museum itself was founded in 1889, during that same wave of national pride, with a clear goal: to gather together pre-Roman finds from Latium, southern Etruria, and Umbria—especially objects tied to Etruscan and Faliscan civilizations. And since the early 20th century, it’s been housed in the villa. Inside, one highlight is the terracotta funerary sculpture called the Sarcofago degli Sposi—the almost life-size Bride and Groom reclining like they’re sharing a meal. There are also major treasures such as the Pyrgi Tablets and the Apollo of Veii. …
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