Welcome to the Museum of Archaeology
1820-2020 In 1818 Pietro Vittorio Aldini participated in the competition for the first chair of Archaeology at the University of Pavia, won the appointment the following year and in 1820 founded the Museum of Archaeology.
The Museum of Archaeology
The Museum exhibits different classes of materials, representative of various civilizations and periods, from prehistory to the seventeenth century, in accordance with the didactic-scientific principle established from the beginning by its founder.
The architectural container
The Museum is housed in the Sala della Crociera of the 15th century San Matteo Hospital and preserves 4 sections of the original wooden ceiling and a baroque dome dating back to 1770, built to give more light and air to the patients.
Aphrodite Sosandra
The Museum preserves a Roman copy of the 2nd century A.D. of the highest quality of the head of the Aphrodite Sosandra. The bronze original by the sculptor Calamides ( about 460 B.C.) was in the Propylaea of the Acropolis in Athens.
1820-2020, the Museum turns 200 years old
Happy Birthday Museum! Best wishes! Ad meliora et maiora semper!
Helpful information
Events calendar
In this section you will find all our initiatives and special openings
Tickets and hours
Tickets and reductions
Where we are
Opening days and hours and the map to reach us
Educational services
Our educational tours for schools and groups of visitors
News
Moving of the museum
After the last opening on Thursday, 14 December 2023, the renovation of the Museum of Archaeology’s spaces will begin. On Monday, 18 December, the move will take place, an imposing operation that will […]
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Works in progress
After the last opening on Thursday, 14 December 2023, the renovation of the Museum of Archaeology’s spaces will begin. On Monday, 18 December, the move will take place, an imposing operation that will […]
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Saturday 18 November 2023 4 pm: Finissage of Alex Pinna’s exhibition ‘Time’ with presentation of the catalogue and greeting to the public
Extraordinary opening of the Museum of Archaeology of the Pavia University Museum System: Saturday 18 November 2023, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
FINISSAGE OF ALEX PINNA’S EXHIBITION WITH PRESENTATION OF THE CATALOGUE AND A WELCOME TO […]
XII Atelier Héloïse – Digital Approaches to the Cultural Heritage of Universities. The objects, the collections, the places of science (Turin, 25-27 October 2023)
The curator of the Museum of Archaeology Anna Letizia Magrassi Matricardi with colleagues from the Museum for the History of the University of Pavia and the Golgi Museum – Ester Maria Bernardi, Lidia […]
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17-20 October 2023: XXXII ANMS Congress Pavia
The University Museum System of Pavia is organising the XXXII Congress of the ANMS, the National Association of Science Museums, from 17 to 20 October 2023.In particular, the theme of this year’s edition […]
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7 October 2023 – Inauguration of the exhibition ‘Time’ by Alex Pinna
From 7 October to 18 November 2023, the Museum of Archaeology of the University of Pavia will host Time, a solo exhibition by Alex Pinna, Artist and Lecturer in Sculpture at the Brera […]
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16 September 2023: the statue of Saint Augustine, Protector of the University of Pavia
Special opening of the Museum of Archaeology of the Pavia University Museum System:
Saturday 16 September 2023, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
STATUE OF SAINT AUGUSTINE, PROTECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA, meeting point […]
15 July 2023 Museum of Archaeology – Music at the University, homage to the Muse Euterpe
Special opening of the Museum of Archaeology of the Pavia University Museum System:
Saturday 15 July 2023, 10am-6pm.
Music at the University, Homage to the Muse Euterpe: appointment in the Museum at 4 p.m.
Under the […]
3 July 2023 at 4 p.m. – Exhibition opening: Life drawings at the Museum of Archaeology
Having reached the end of their PCTO experience of Copying from Life (Alternanza Scuola/Lavoro) at the Museum of Archaeology, high school students Amelia Aschieri, Francesco Pampanin, Laila Balot and Matilde Perrone will be […]
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22 June 2023 7.30-11.30 p.m. – MuseiDiVini
Once again this year, the Museum of Archaeology will take part in the MuseiDiVini event: the museum will open from 7.30 p.m. to 11.30 p.m. and will offer a tour guided by Curator […]
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