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Regional Museum Description

(Local Name: Museo Regionale) In the Museo Regionale in Messina, founded in 1914, objects from the earlier Municipal Museum are on display, as well as everything which survived the catastrophe of 1908.

Hobbies & Activities category: Paintings, art collections; Historical museum; Nautical museum or attraction

Regional Museum Highlights

Archeological Section

The Archeological Section (Rooms VII-IX) shows finds from the ancient Zancle, including portraits, sarcophagi, terracotta, statues, inscriptions and vessels.

Picture Gallery

Rooms I-VI house the pinacoteca (picture gallery).

Mention should be made of a major work of Antonello da Messina in Room II; it is the double-sectioned "Polyptychon of Saint Gregory", painted in

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Sculptures

The collection of sculptures (Rooms X-XII) contains works by Antonello Gagini (St Antonius), Francesco Laurana (Madonna with child) and Goro di Gregorio ("Madonna of the cripples"), as well as the

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Address

Museo Regionale
Viale della Libertà 465
I-98100 Messina
Italy

http://www.regione.sicilia.it/beniculturali/dirbenicult/musei/musei2/engarmessina.htm

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