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Biglietto Unico

Full / Euro 7

 

Concessions A / Euro 5

Groups (15+)
Agreement (Touring Club Italiano, Confederazione Italiana Campeggiatori, Igers Italia, exhibition "Da Raffaello a Canova, da Valadier a Balla" - Perugia until 4th November, exhibition "World of Dinosaurs" - Amelia until 25th November)

Concessions B / Euro 2

Age 6-14

Free

  • Age 5 (-)
  • Disabled people with helper
  • Icom members
  • FAI members
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  • Journalists
  • School

Free local residents

Free entry (reduced tickets to visit the other museums of the circuit)

Duration

GENERAL TICKET / I't's valid for 15 days from activation
NOMINATIVE TICKET / It's valid for 90 days from activation (for this kind of ticket visitors will be asked to submit personal information)

JANUARY -  MARCH
Saturday, Sunday and holidays
10.30 - 13.00  | 15.00 - 17.30

Info and reservations
umbertide@sistemamuseo.it

Opening times may vary according to Covid regulations.

Pre-booked guided tours and workshops are available.

By car: E45 highway, Umbertide-Gubbio exit, coming either from Rome (northbound) or from Cesena (southbound).

Il museo

The town museum is in the 14th-century Church of Santa Croce. The altarpiece of the Deposition on the high altar, painted by Luca Signorelli in 1516, is the only one of the many works on panel by the master from Cortona that has remained at its original site. The same is true, quite unusual for a museum, of the paintings over the side altars.
The scene of the Deposition is inserted, probably at the behest of the Confraternity, in a broad portrayal of the highlights of the Passion: at the top left are the three crosses on Calvary; at the center is the Deposition, at which are present the two Marys: the Blessed Virgin, who has already fainted, and Mary Magdalene; at right is St. John, with the carrying of the body into the tomb and the mourning of the dead Christ represented above him.
Given that the confraternity is named after the Holy Cross, the three panels of the predella are dedicated to the legend of the Finding of the True Cross of Christ, in the version taken from the Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine, a very popular work in the Middle Ages.

Other  important works at the museum are from the nearby church of San Francesco, including a canvas by Pomarancio (Niccolò Circignani) of the Madonna and Child in Glory.

The Santa Croce museum also has an important archeological section: pottery fragments from the protohistoric age to the Hellenistic and Roman periods, which provide evidence of the long human presence in the area; coins dating from the 4th-5th centuries A.D. from a settlement on Mt. Acuto; and a votive offering including small Italic bronzes with human and animal figures, dating from the 6th-5th century B.C. These make clear reference to a pastoral society, in which ex-votos of people and animals represent requests for protection and thanks for divine intervention.

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Piazza S. Francesco, 1
06019 Umbertide (Perugia)

  • 075 9420147
  • umbertide@sistemamuseo.it

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