National Archaeological Museum (Florence)

At that time it only comprised Etruscan and Roman remains. As the collections grew, a new site soon became necessary and in 1880 the museum was transferred to its present building.The collection's first foundations were the family collections of the Medici and Lorraine, with several transfers from the Uffizi up to 1890 (except the collections of marble sculpture which the Uffizi already possessed). The Egyptian section was first formed in the first half of the 18th century from part of the collections of Pierre Léopold de Toscane, from another part of an expedition promoted by the same Grand Duke in 1828–29 and led by Ippolito Rosellini and Champollion (the man who first deciphered hieroglyphics). In 1887 a new topographic museum on the Etruscans was added, but it was destroyed in the 1966 floods.Etruscan collectionsThe organisation of the Etruscan rooms was reconsidered and reordered in 2006. Also in 2006, the 40-year-overdue restoration was carried out on over 2000 objects damaged in the 1966 floods.The Chimera of Arezzo – discovered in 1553 at Arezzo during the construction of a Medici fortressThe statue of the Arringatore (1st century BC)The funerary statue Mater Matuta (460–450 BC) (returned to Chianciano Terme)The sarcophagus of Laerthia Seianti (2nd century BC)The sarcophagus of the Amazons (4th century BC)

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