After a complex campaign of restoration, the museum set up in Palazzo Corboli opened in 2002 to present again to the public works previously exhibited in the Etruscan Museum and the Sacred Art. On the second floor, you can admire the archaeological material found in the last fifty years in the municipalities surrounding testimony to the ancient history of the Valley of.

Among these are to be reported excavations of the necropolis of Poggione, and ivory bobbins in bucchero, funerary Molinello of the mound, with rare examples of ancient sculpture and metal artefacts, and the reconstruction of the tomb of Poggio Pinci, dated between V and the first century BC And urns with travertine and tufa, a figure red pottery, bronze vases, mirrors and gold.

The Sacred Art section starts with a series of works that testify to the political history and religious establishment, in the Middle Ages until Asciano became a real pole economic attracted the rich merchant families of Siena. There is, as though they were a "revelation pictorial", a series of paintings made by the highest Sienese artists from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century: Mark of Bonaventure, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, the Master dell'Osservanza, Matthew John, Rutilio Manetti, Bernardino Mei and Francesco Nasini, precious and wooden sculptures among which those of Giovanni Pisano and Francis de Valdambrino.

Of particular interest are some halls of the palace still paints ethical-political subject dating from the second half of the fourteenth century. Remarkable is the collection of ceramics, jewellery and liturgical furnishings.

ORARIO DI APERTURA
Orario giorni lavorativi: 10-13 15-19,30
Orario giorni festivi: 12-13 15-20
Giorno settimanale di chiusura: Lunedì

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