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Monasterace Archeological Museum

Italian archeological museum

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ15545668 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Museo Archeologico di Monasterace (Monasterace Archeological Museum) is a museum in Monasterace, southern Italy. It houses a collection of finds from the ancient Greek city Caulonia whose archaeological site is located close to the museum.

Editorial summary

“Monasterace Archeological Museum” enters the record as italian archeological museum. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Monasterace, Archeological and Museum can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 36-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Monasterace, Archeological and Museum.
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Why this record matters

“Monasterace Archeological Museum” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Monasterace, Archeological and Museum provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15545668. Authority coordinates are 38.450, 16.579. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Monasterace Archeological Museum primary sources, Monasterace Archeological Museum archive and Monasterace research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Monasterace Archeological Museum” 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.