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Aboca Museum

Located in the fascinating Renaissance setting of Palazzo Bourbon Del Monte, Aboca Museum is the home of two permanent museum itineraries: Herbs and health over the centuries and Aboca Experience. The building is one of the most elegant seventeenth-century residences in Sansepolcro. Of simple and elegant style, the palace is the result of several mergers carried out on medieval foundations which have traces in its Torre del Catolino, dated between the 12th and 13th centuries and forming part of the ancient city walls. Set against the Church of San Rocco, it overlooks the tree-lined square now named after Piero della Francesca, which has always been a social, religious and artistic point of reference for the city. Herbs and Health over the Centuries is a unique journey in the cultural panorama, with the aim of passing on the history of the thousand-year-old relationship between man and plants and underlining their enormous therapeutic power even today.

The exhibition itinerary begins from the entrance to the museum with a showcase that summarizes its main historical-artistic finds while on the walls of the stairs leading to the exhibition, precious collections of botanical tables taken from the herbariums preserved in the Bibliotheca Antiqua are displayed. The actual museum exhibition is therefore spread across nine rooms located on the main floor of the building. Precious herbariums, ancient books on pharmaceutical botany, mortars, artistic ceramics and valuable glassware tell the story of the evolution over the centuries of knowledge about plants for the benefit of health, and reconstruct the ancient processing environments. All the rooms are expertly furnished with all the tools that from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century were necessary to obtain the substances with which to prepare medicines from plants. The visitor is thus taken on a fascinating journey into the past , where history, anecdotes and natural scents intertwine to tell the story of herbs over the centuries.

The Aboca Museum was completed in 2020 with the opening to the public of the Aboca Experience, the interactive journey that tells the story of the Aboca world through multimedia installations that communicate with the visitor, allowing him to experience the 360-degree company visit: it's a bit like entering the company's organic crops, passing through its laboratories and production plants, until delving into the vast world of cultural events and editions. A place to be explored where you can discover the value of biodiversity and the resources that the environment makes available for our health.

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Via Niccolò Aggiunti, 75
52037 Sansepolcro

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