Ethnographic museums

House and Museum of Mariangela Virgili

House and Museum of Mariangela Virgili in Ronciglione tells the story of Mariangela Virgili who was one of the 'Carmelites of the Ancient Observance' and is in the process of beatification.

The palace of Virgili is in the medieval village and has the coat of arms on the front door. In the seventeenth century, the Virgili family was impoverished and on the second floor lived the family of Mariangela and the cell (with wooden fence) where she lived and died.

The walls are covered with several hundred ex-votoes representing hearts, eyes and other body parts. There are also tablets and votive paintings, photographs of ordinary people and soldiers of all wars, including those of the present.
 

The Museum of the City in the Territory of Vetralla (Museo della città e del territorio) focuses on the urban and minor architectural forms of Tuscia examining the local construction materials and traditional crafts.

In its sections we study the use of stone, iron and metals, wood, bricks and ceramics. The museum hosts temporary exhibitions related to the historical centres of the Tuscia.

The Ceramics Museum is located in the Town Hall of Vasanello and exhibits a collection of Etruscan and Roman remains, fragments of Romanesque capitals, and craft ceramic objects from the Middle Ages to the present.

There are also displayed tools and documents related to local crafts.
 

The Museum of Sacred Art of Orte is located in the former church of San Silvestro in the center of the medieval town.

It contains paintings from various periods, reliquaries and sculptures. An important detail is the sacred art section with liturgical vestments and sacred vessels.

The Museum of the Earth is in a former Cistercian manor house, in the oldest part of the town of Latera.

It shows some finds of the civilization of the town from the collection of Louis Poscia from 1972 to 1998. The museum is divided into three sections: exhibition area, documentary and didactic area.
 

The Museum of Our Lady of Suffrage Sanctuary (museo del Santuario della Nostra Signora del Suffragio) is located in the basement of the Basilica of Our Lady of Suffrage in Grotte di Castro.

It displays vestments, reliquaries, votive paintings and sculptures. A section shows many fine gilded wooden objects that furnished the altars before the Vatican II Council.

The Civic and of Popular Traditions and of the Etruscan Necropolis of Pianezze of Grotte di Castro is located in the Palazzo del Podesta.

It contains important Etruscan and Medieval sections. The former collects some funerary equipment of the necropolis of Vigna la Piazza and Pianezze, running between the eighth and fourth centuries BC.

In the medieval section is re-created the more recent history of Grotte di Castro and its popular traditions.
 

The Museum of Sacred Art of Gradoli is located in the sacristy of the Collegiate Church of Santa Maria Maddalena and exhibits liturgical objects, sculptures, tapestries, votive offerings dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.

Of interest are liturgical objects donated by Cardinal Ferrata (1847-1914) and 15 of the sixteenth century tablets depicting the mysteries of the Rosary.