On Sunday, there is the possibility of entering all the museums in the municipality of Verona for €1, a city that many of you surely know for the story of Romeo and Juliet but which actually hides several museums that I find very interesting and beautiful to visit, so I took advantage of it because otherwise the cost to visit them would have been quite high, for the first time I entered the Maffeiano Lapidary Museum, one of the oldest public museums in Europe, founded in 1745.
I was very curious and had quite high expectations about this museum, which many influencers on social media in the art field identified as one of the largest lapidary museums, that is, specialized in describing stone finds from ancient civilizations. Inside there were mainly Greek, Etruscan, Paleo-Venetian and Roman epigraphic collections and there were even some finds that were also Arab.
but the museum is linked to the figure of Scipione Maffei, a great Veronese literary figure, very famous throughout the world, to whom Verona dedicated one of the most important classical high schools in Italy. He dedicated 30 years of work to collect these inscriptions and also some sculptural fragments because he was very convinced that it would be nice to share with people the knowledge of this story linked behind these inscriptions which are contained within this museum.
So thanks to the architect Alessandro Pompei they designed a space to conserve these finds. But it was in 1982 that an architect, a student of Carlo Scarpa, tried to modernize the Ampland museum by expanding its spaces and giving some order to the various inscriptions and tombstones present. Of course, if I have to make an observation and it is what is somewhat noticed when walking around the museum, let's say that since 1982 no new exhibition has been made and this is a real shame because in many cases it was not even possible to understand what was written in the indications near the finds.
However, if you want to go and see it, it is located very close to the historic center of Verona. The museum is located in Piazza Bra 28, right next to the Bra gates, which are currently being renovated. We hope that sooner or later, from the museum you will be able to walk along the walkway above these access gates to the city of Verona.
The entrance fee would be 6 euros, which in my opinion is a bit too high for what I saw, but I must say that I was very impressed, especially by the numerous epigraphic materials present, where you could somehow understand how these people died, and also what jobs they did. In short, these epigraphs probably helped us to know a little more about the lives of these people who, in the end, simply wanted to remember their loved ones thanks to these tombstones.
Unfortunately, the other thing that left me a little disappointed is the fact that this museum offers the possibility of seeing various panoramas of Verona. Unfortunately, the panoramic terraces were closed.
I hope the photos were interesting and my story too. See you next time.
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