Antiquarium Turritano
museum in Porto Torres, Italy
The Antiquarium Turritano is an archaeological museum in Porto Torres, Sardinia, Italy.
The museum was inaugurated in 1984, and since 2014 has been managed by the Italian Ministry of Culture.
The exhibition is divided into two parts: one is dedicated to statuary and underwater material the other to materials from the necropolis unearthed in the urban area. The first part includes baths, the marble items put together by Emilio Paglietti in the late 19th and early 20th century.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16336143. VIAF identifies the subject as 240094751. Authority coordinates are 40.839, 8.397. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1984 and 2014.
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This entry incorporates text from “Antiquarium Turritano” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.