Museo Archeologico Nazionale Jatta | |
Former name | Museo Archeologico Jatta |
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Established | 1993 |
Location | Piazza Giovanni Bovio, 35, 70037 Ruvo di Puglia, Italy |
Coordinates | 41°06′49.08″N 16°29′09.06″E / 41.1136333°N 16.4858500°E |
Type | Archaeological museum |
Key holdings | Talos Vase |
Collections | Ancient Greek art, Hellenistic Art, Pottery of ancient Greece, Ancient Roman art |
Collection size | 2,000 circa |
Visitors | 10872 (2015)[1] |
Founder | Giovanni Jatta senior, Giovanni Jatta junior |
Director | Claudia Lucchese |
Owner | Italian Republic Ministry of Culture Government of the Comune of Ruvo di Puglia |
Website | musei |
The Jatta National Archaeological Museum in Ruvo di Puglia, a historic and artistic city in southern Italy, is housed in rooms of Palazzo Jatta and represents the only example in Italy of a nineteenth-century private collection that has remained unaltered from its original museographic concept.[2][3] The finds preserved in the museum were collected by the archaeologist Giovanni Jatta in the early nineteenth century and his collection was subsequently enriched by his nephew of the same name and was sold to the Italian state in the twentieth century.[3]
Since December 2014 the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities has been managing it through the Apulia Museum Complex, which in December 2019 became the Regional Directorate for Museums.