Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze

"The museum was inaugurated as the Etruscan Museum in 1870 and is one of the oldest archaeological museums in Italy. Initially, the headquarters was at the Cenacolo di Fuligno and housed a collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman finds that came from the dismemberment of the Medici and Lorraine collections previously kept at the Uffizi. In that same location, in 1855, the Egyptian Museum was also set up. The spaces of the cenacolo soon proved inadequate to house the collections and in 1880 the museum was moved to its current location in the Palazzo della Crocetta. The National Archaeological Museum of Florence today includes the Etruscan Section, the Roman Section, the Greek Section, the Egyptian Section, also called the Egyptian Museum (it is the second collection in Italy after the one in Turin), the Numismatic Section and others. Among the most important Etruscan finds is the Chimera, a votive bronze statue found in Arezzo in 1533, which represents an animal that is part lion, part goat and part snake. Among the main works preserved there are also the statues of the Orator and Minerva, the terracotta and travertine urns from Volterra and the Greek ceramic vases with black figures."