Palazzo Dei Consoli Museo Civico

The Palace de Consoli is the complex of Piazza Grande and Palazzo del Podesta one of the most majestic and bold medieval town planning achievements. Built in the center of the city, the ancient palace of Government represents the magnitude of the political and institutional project of the City Eugubino to the fourteenth century. Gothic building over 60 meters high, dominates the town with the bell tower and the panoramic loggia opens to the large wall unit square with the staircase in a fan. Very impressive is the interior: the large dell'Arengo room with vaulted ceiling, the palace chapel, and the main floor reserved for government functions of the Consuls, with frescoes, wooden furniture and fountains. In the secret corridor, medieval toilets and pipes for running water testify to the high degree of technology achieved by eugubine workers. The halls of the Palazzo dei Consoli host since 1909 the collections of the Museum, a must destination in regional routes. The museum collection staged on different floors, it illustrates the history and local culture from prehistoric times to the twentieth century. International absolute importance and fame are the Iguvine tables, seven bronze plates on which there is the most important text in the Umbrian language and the most detailed description for religious rites that the ancient Western world has ever returned. The tables are the heart of an archaeological collection among the richest of Umbria with finds from the Umbrian and Roman. The numismatic collection consists of important specimens Italic and Roman bronze, medieval coins, ducal and papal, the latter minted by the Mint of Gubbio. Set up in the room and loggia along the secret corridor, ceramic collection ranges from the archaic majolica (XIV sec.) To manufactures of the twentieth century. Of particular note is the Renaissance eugubina production in red and golden luster of Mastro Giorgio Andreoli workshop (XVI sec.). Recently, the collection has been enhanced with a section dedicated to the works of ceramic artist Aldo Ajò. numerically significant is the pharmaceutical pottery including original domes of still red clay. The rooms on the first floor house the extensive art gallery of paintings on wood and canvas mainly Umbrian school, dating from the late thirteenth century to the nineteenth century. Noteworthy are the Reliquary illuminated (XIV sec.), The wooden crucifix by Giotto school by the Master of the Gubbio Cross (early XIV century.), The Banner (beginning XVi sec.) Realizate from Sinibaldo Ibi, artist follower of Perugino and the Immaculate Conception by Francesco Signorelli (1527). At the level of the square find space a collection of Indo - Tibetan origin objects dating back to the nineteenth century, the result of the donation of Sir Vivian Gabriel and Collection Risorgimentale rich in local and historical memories staged on the occasion of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Giuseppe Garibaldi.

Opening hours: From April to October  10.00-13.00 / 15.00-18.00 From November to March  10:00 to 13:00 / 14:30 to 17:30 Open every day. Closed:  13-14-15 May  25th December  1st January morning Please be informed that, for organizational reasons, the closing of the ticket is advanced by 30 minutes after the time of closing. Times may vary.

tickets:  Integers: € 5.00  Reduced: € 3.00 (youth 6-25 years, TCI, Archeo Club and FAI members, groups with more than 15 units, more than 65 years)  School groups: € 2.00  Free (children under 5 years old and residents in Gubbio)

The Civic Museum of Palazzo dei Consoli is also:  - Guided tours of the Palace and the collections  - Educational workshop  - bookshop  - cultural events  - Exhibition spaces for temporary exhibitions  - Possibility of special openings for groups.