Archiepiscopal Museum, Ravenna — Attraction in Ravenna

The significant and rich Archiepiscopal Museum here in Ravenna shows us the historical sequence of events and life in the city itself. It is located immediately next to the Baptistry of Neon and behind the Duomo of Ravenna, on the first and second floor of the Archiepiscopal Palace. The museum is very interesting with its artifacts and we are especially impressed with the chapel of Sant'Andrea, an early Christian oratory with Greek cross plan built between 494 and 519 AD in the time of Theodoric and decorated with wonderful mosaics. Archiepiscopal Chapel is the only existing archiepiscopal chapel of the early Christian era that has been preserved intact to the present day. It was erected by Bishop Peter II as a private oratory for Catholic bishops when Arianism was the main religion of the court. Originally dedicated to Christ, the chapel was then renamed and dedicated to Saint Andrew, whose relics were transported from Constantinople to Ravenna around the mid-6th century AD. Beautifully decorated chapel with extremely beautiful mosaics. Also of interest to us was the ivory throne of Maximian, one of the most famous carved ivory works of all times executed in the 6th century by Byzantine artists. Very interesting museum with...

The museum itself is kind of interesting, but this review is abouy the staff at the gift shop / ticket office who wasn't nice. We bought some items in a considerable sum of money, and then tickets - but we told the cashier that we want to buy tickets at the same time that we bought the items. So we first paid for the items and a minute later for the tickets, with the same cashier. The cashier didn't tell us that there is a 10 percent discount at the shop for ticket holders, this was written on the leaflet she gave us. I only saw this after the tour in the museum so I went to that same cashier and asked her to give us the discount, but she looked very disinterested and flatly refused saying we should have told her this in advance. But how could we know? As the person who works there and knows how things work, she should have told us about it herself and have us purchase the tickets and items in the correct order so that we could get the discount (again, we did tell her we want to purchase tickets when we purchased the gift shop items, before we paid). Very...

The place was going through and explanation which will probably last about 2-3 months but it was kinda big, there's a lot to see though it lacks explanation. I only gave it 5 stars because one part was absolutely beautiful otherwise it would've been 3 stars. The was a lot it see. All of the information was also translated into braille. All of the texts were bilingual (Italian and English) and I believe that the same is for the braille part too. The place is absolutely not stroller not wheelchair friendly. There are stairs and if you're bringing your baby, you have to put the stroller next the stairs. The had a small gift shop that I didn't check out but it was literally like most if not all other...