Exhibition on Etruscan civilisation opens at Vani Archaeological Museum

The exhibition on Etruscan civilisation, displaying collections of three Italian museums, including the National Archaeological Museum of Chiusi, Etruscan Museum Chianciano Terme and National Archaeological Museum of Florence, opened on Saturday at Vani Archaeological Museum in western Georgia’s Imereti region.

Under the title ‘Etruscan World’, the exhibition offers visitors to travel to the “mysterious” Etruscan period and learn about the existence and beliefs of the Etruscans, their ideas about the afterlife and traditions, writing and human images, the Italian Embassy in Georgia said.

The exposition, initially presented at the Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia in the capital Tbilisi, opened on the International Day of Museums in Georgia in Vani Museum, and aims to present the diversity of the Etruscan world through canopies, sculptures, buccero and bronze vessels, ceramics and gold.

Among the exhibits are clay krater and the bronze mirror, depicting the myth of the Argonauts, which are connected to Colchis, the Georgian polity of Egrisi located on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, and are dated back to 400-380 BC and 300-275 BC.

The opening event was attended by the Italian Ambassador to Georgia, Massimiliano D’Antuono and the directors of Chiusi and Florence museums Fabrizio Vallelonga and Mario Iozzo, as well as the curator of the exhibition Antonella Magagnini and Alessia Autuori, the Head of the Glocal Project Consulting.

The exhibition, organised by the Italian Embassy in Georgia in cooperation with the Regional Directorate of Tuscany Museums, the Italian company Glocal Project Consulting and the National Museum of Georgia, will host visitors in the Vani Museum until August 31, 2024.