The museum covers three floors divided into forty rooms. The first section is devoted to the archaeological collection of Canon Giovanni Chelli, founder of the museum in 1860. The largest part of this collection consists in Etruscan cinerary urns from Volterra and Chiusi. The next section is devoted to the Etruscan archaeological site of the town of Roselle and features sixth-century BC stone warrior statues from the necropolis of the Archaic period, two statuary complexes from the Roman forum, one of which was a public celebration of the imperial cult of around 50 AD and the other a private piece glorifying a high-ranking family of the early second century AD and architectural decorations of the Carolingian period from the early Christian church, which was the first and oldest cathedral. The second floor hosts archaeological documentation on Maremma and displayed is a geometric Euboean krater, or vase, from Pescia Romana (730 BC), Etruscan Orientalizing style funerary objects from Vetulonia (II Circolo delle Pellicce) and Marsili (Circolo degli Avori) and amphorae and anchors illustrate the Etruscan traffic of goods during the Archaic period. The museum then explores Romanization showing artifacts that demonstrate the persistence of Etruscan culture (e.g. language, writing and funeral rites) next to examples of the innovations introduced by the Romans conquerors (e.g. votive deposits, rural settlements). The last room is devoted to miscellaneous collections, often very beautiful finds that have accumulated in the museum over the years without sufficient data on provenance or context of discovery. The last rooms of the third floor of the museum tell of the history of the town of Grosseto, further explored at the nearby Museo della Città, or ‘City Museum’. Guided tours can be reserved and are included in the price of the ticket, and an educational service offers interactive workshops with themed guided tours for school children. Current educational tours include “Prehistory”, with the topics of “Light and Shadows of Prehistory”, “Prehistoric Art” and “The Neolithic Revolution”, “The Etruscans”, with the topics of “The City of the Living”, “The City of the Dead” and “Writing”, “The Romans”, with the topics of “The Roman Town”, “A Day in the Life of a Roman Child” and “The Sculptors Workshop”, “The Middle Ages”, with the topics of “The Beginnings of Grosseto”, “The Medieval Town” and “The Artist’s Studio”, and finally “The Museum at Play”, with a treasure hunt. There is also a laboratory dedicated to the “Birth and Origins of Writing”. For more information: +39 0564-488760. The museum is arranged in chronological order and is introduced by the collection of the museum’s founder, Monsignor A. Cappelli, which features from works from Siena and the antiques market. Among the works are the “Two Saints”, the remaining part of a polyptych attributed to Sano di Pietro and the Master of the Observance (mid-fifteenth century). Of great value is the collection of works coming mainly from the Cathedral of Grosseto, but also from many churches of the Diocese, attributable to Sienese artists working in the centre of the Maremma area. Among these are a thirteenth century “The Final Judgment”, from the church of San Leonardo in Grosseto and attributed to Guido da Siena or his school, “Cristo in Pietà” by Pietro di Domenico (late fifteenth century), the Madonna of Girolamo di Benvenuto (early sixteenth century), the “Madonna of the Cherries” by il Sassetta (mid-fifteenth century) from the Cathedral of San Lorenzo, fragments of the external sculptural decoration of the same Cathedral (by Agostino di Giovanni, fourteenth century) and the “Marble angels” (G.A. & B. Mazzuoli, 1708) originally placed to decorate the altar of Our Lady of Grace, removed during the restoration of the Cathedral at the end of the 1800s. The museum also has a rich collection of vestments, silverware and reliquaries.