SanGimignano1300

SanGimignano1300 is an artistic and historical museum located in the old City of San Gimignano. The Museum was inaugurated in February 2010.

SanGimignano1300
Established 2010
Location

Via Berignano, n 23 - 53037

San Gimignano (Italy)
Type Artistic and Historic museum
Website SanGimignano1300

Contents

Location

The exhibition halls and galleries expend over the restored ground floor of two antique buildings: Palazzo Gamucci (which later become the Sisters of Saint Catherine Convent) and Palazzo Ficarelli. The Museum highlights the historical and artistic aspects that concerned the city during the Middle Ages.

Galleries

The museum presents 10 main galleries. The Via Francigena and its routes of pilgrimage during the Middle Ages exhibition room introduce the large reproduction 1:100 scale of the city of San Gimignano during the XIV century, entirely hand-made in ceramic by Michelangelo and Raffaello Rubino. Several deepening and details of the city and rural life, as well as descriptions about the various arts and professions of the time are represented in the other galleries. The Museum SanGimignano1300 pays tribute to the painter Memmo di Filipuccio with two installations presenting the revisit of his work. Filippuccio depicted an accurate and detailed image of the independent and unconventional society of the city during the beginning of the XIV century. The museum's historical and educational itinerary includes paintings by Enrico Guerrini presenting a number of important moments in the history of San Gimignano from Etruscan times up to modern days.

Acknowledgements

In 2011 the museum was awarded with the patronage of the National Italian UNESCO Commission for the elevated and qualified formative value of its educational proposals “History, Art, and Tradition”.

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