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Gessi Museum - University of Urbino

Museums & Art Centres
The Museo dei Gessi (Gessi Museum) is the Museum of the Institute of Archaeology of gypsum, featuring a collection of 41 models of ancient sculptures. Housed in the 18th century Palazzo Albani, the prestigious collection of historical plaster casts mostly derived from classical sculptures.

Almost all of them were acquired around the half of the 19th century by the Fine Arts Institute of the Marche region, which was founded at Urbino in 1861. 

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Gessi Museum - University of Urbino

Via Timoteo Viti, 10
61029 Urbino PU
Italy