Museum of Archeology of the University of Catania — Attraction in Catania

I really would like to put here more stars as the museum has very friendly staff and has a great potential but... There are really but two rooms of it. Sure they are filled with interesting findings dating from the earliest settlement findings to Greek and Roman times if you into ceramics (I am, this is not a sarcasm), and you can read some interesting facts regarding Catania settlement and some more general ones. But seriously... two rooms in the place that is literally build on such a gigantic excavation site? And why just till Romans? There was plenty of history here later as well, as much interesting. And even for the part that is on the display: people are living in Catania for millennia, I am kinda sure there is more to show than two relatively small rooms.

Don't get me wrong: if you into history and archaeology it is still worth to visit. Just if you are really into it you probably expect a vast and reach exposition that will take you for the journey through time for the whole day the least, not less than hour...

No entrance fee is a plus of course, but I would really gladly pay to see what you keep in the...

The museum is very small - one large room, and is held in the department of archaeology/culture on via Biblioteca. It's a free museum. You enter through the main gate of the faculty building, the entrance is to the left. All in all it took me ten minutes to read the notice boards and explore the collection. At the end of the room, there's an interesting assembly of archaeological copies from the early XXth century, which is not very common to see in most...

La sua storia inizia nel 1898 quando Paolo Orsi dona al Gabinetto universitario di Archeologia dieci reperti. Dagli anni ’20 Guido Libertini ne acquista degli altri che andranno a formare la collezione odierna. Custodisce oggetti risalenti dalla preistoria all’età medievale. Nelle cinque sale si possono ammirare alcuni pezzi di particolare pregio, ad esempio il modellino di imbarcazione con rematori, il sistro bronzeo – strumento musicale che produce un suono argentino quando viene agitato – e una grande pisside con coperchio a presa scomponibile su cui è rappresentata la cerimonia di consegna dei doni alla novella sposa. Nell’ultima sala del museo sono presenti 78 falsi, prodotti con tale maestria dai falsari centuripini da ingannare anche gli esperti. (fonte:...