The 10 Best Museums in Province of Grosseto, Tuscany

Among the archaeological finds are objects which accidentally fell into the sea during the loading and unloading of ships, amphorae and pottery damaged during trips and thrown into the sea to free up the ship holds and the wrecks of sunken ships. Educational workshops and tours are routinely organized.

The art workshop Fogliaoro is located in Massa Marittima (at Via Moncini 11), a town considered a medieval gem of Tuscan Maremma. The street leading from the town's main square, where stands the Cathedral of Saint Cerbonius, to the “Torre del Candeliere”, is full of traditional Tuscan craft workshops, and its essence is fully captured by Fogliaoro. Besides being a workshop, is also an exhibition space and a store for the works produced by Renzo and Manuela. Manuela and Renzo, partners both in work and life, through their creations, are at the service of those who love uniqueness and quality of applied arts and of manual work.

Follonica's heart beats again at the MAGMA. Housed in the restored St Ferdinand Furnace, the city's most historic building, the museum is a treasure trove of wonder, where age-old walls stand side-by-side modern multimedia technology. A virtual journey of discovery across time and space, back to the cradle of the Italian iron industry, against an extraordinary backdrop of industrial archaeology.

The Museum Visitor Center is carried out in the beautiful Casa Rossa Ximenes (iconic structure of Maremma’s Reclamation) designed in 1765 by the distinguished Jesuit mathematician Leonardo Ximenes by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Pietro Leopoldo of Lorena’s will. Today’s Museum serves as reception for the Diaccia Botrona Nature Reserve Visitor Center for information, reservations, Boat tours and educational activities departure point.

La Casa Museo si trova nel centro storico di Monticello Amiata, un paesino a confine tra la Maremma Grossetana e l'Amiata. Il museo si trova in un antico palazzo i cui ambienti ricreano fedelmente un'abitazione della montagna amiatina di fine ottocento. Durante il periodo invernale le visite si fanno su prenotazione possibile via facebook o email. Da Giungo a Settembre la Casa Museo e aperta tutti i giorni escluso il Lunedi.

The museum was inaugurated in 1985 with the intent to rebuild the lives of the communities in the area of the Fiora River Valley from the Palaeolithic to the Bronze Age.On display are many artifacts including bones of extinct animals, flint arrowheads, fragments of pottery, furniture, tools, fabricated metal and bone, cremation burial ornaments of the Bronze Final age.

The Civic Archaeological Museum of Vetulonia describes the history of the territory hosting, according to a chronological-topographical order, finds from the remains of the inhabited area and the necropolis of Vetulonia, but also from the territorial area controlled by it. In the seven rooms of the museum are preserved the testimony of more than a thousand years of history of one of the capitals of the Etruscan world, from the Villanovan period to the Roman period. Extraordinary funerary objects from the orientalizing period (720 - 600 BC) , especially due to the presence of locally produced gold jewelery, testify the power and the richness of the etruscan aristocracy that has ruled the city and the territory.