SECOND FLOOR
The final floor of the museum houses the striking section of the Etruscan symposium. Here, as in the section on women, visitors are invited on a virtual tour of the house of an Etruscan prince, Aranth. There’s the reconstruction of the banquet hall with the couches where the Etruscans took their meals with their wives dressed in clothes considered scandalous at the time. Also exhibited are various everyday and ritual objects linked to the consumption of food, in particular of meat and wine then associated with contact with the divine. The next room contains finds from the excavation of a spa complex in Chianciano from the Augustan period when the poet Horace visited to take the water cure. This room also contains a balustrade affording an interesting angle of the Fucoli temple fronton located on the floor below.