Echi d'eternità: i volti degli etruschi si rivelano

The Museo Archeologico di Chianciano Terme presents Echi d’eternità: i volti degli Etruschi si rivelano — a new gallery dedicated to Etruscan canopic jars.

On Sunday, 26 October 2025, the Museo Archeologico di Chianciano Terme will take part in the Giornata degli Etruschi with a special event: Echi d’eternità: i volti degli Etruschi si rivelano, the inauguration of a new exhibition gallery dedicated to Etruscan canopic jars — extraordinary cinerary urns that preserve the features and expressions of Etruscan faces across the centuries.

The Museo Archeologico di Chianciano Terme is part of the The Etruscans 85–25 project, promoted by the Region of Tuscany together with Fondazione Musei Senesi and the Associazione Musei Archeologici della Toscana, celebrating forty years since the major events of 1985 dedicated to Etruscan civilisation.

The museum houses the largest existing collection of Etruscan canopic jars, discovered in the necropolis of Tolle (1996–2011). This includes over one hundred burials, all restored by the museum and published in their entirety in 2015. While a modest yet significant selection is already part of the permanent display, on the occasion of the anniversary of the 1985 Progetto Etruschi the museum will inaugurate a new gallery featuring an additional group of these anthropomorphic cinerary urns, to become part of the permanent exhibition.

Through these remarkable artefacts, visitors will discover the variety and depth of the Etruscans’ relationship with funerary cults, memory, and the representation of individual identity.

Programme

Date and time: Sunday, 26 October 2025, 4:00 PM
Venue: Museo Civico Archeologico delle Acque, Chianciano Terme