The National Archaeological Museum "Gaio Cilnio Maecenas" of Arezzo is located in the former monastery of St. Bernard, which stands on the remains of the Roman amphitheater of the mid-second century AD, whose vaults are visible on the ground floor. The Museum is named after Maecenas, the personage from Arezzo who lived at the time of the Emperor Augustus and was famous as a protector of artists.
Among the most important works preserved in the museum there is the quinipodium, a monetary specimen of considerable size of which only two examples are known in the world, while among the Etruscan finds you can admire the jewels from the necropolis of Poggio del Sole, the coroplastic decorations from Piazza San Iacopo and Via Roma (480 BC), from the temple of Latona, from Via della Società Operaia and from the grandiose sanctuary of Castelsecco (II-I century BC).
Among the Attic ceramics is the famous Euphronius krater (510-500 B.C.) and the amphora from Casalta from the school of the Meidias painter, while among the Roman statues is a remarkable portrait of Livia.
Also on display are the so-called "vasi corallini", a type of pottery produced in Arezzo between the middle of the 1st century B.C. and the middle of the 1st century A.D., which made the city famous in antiquity, and of which the museum has the richest collection in the world.
