Museum of the Ancient Umbri and of Ceramics

Inside the Palazzo, which belonged to the Cajani family, a fine example of an eighteenth-century residence, is housed on the first floor, a section of the Gualdo Tadino Museum of Ceramics with a display of the civic collection of ceramics. In addition to the exhibition of manufactured products in Florence, Pesaro-Urbino, Deruta, Urbino, the most substantial part is dedicated to the production of Alfredo Santarelli, a local artist who had his factory in Via Monina, adjacent to Casa Cajani. The Archaeological Museum dedicated to the Ancient Umbrians develops in the three floors below, the mysterious people that the historian Pliny the Elder defines as the oldest in Italy: there are daily objects, weapons, Attic vases, fragments found in the territory of Gualdo Tadino from the twenties to the fifties of the last century by Enrico Stefani, archaeologist who participated in the excavations of the Palace of Knossos in Crete as well as other important finds recovered by the Archaeological Superintendence for Umbria in the excavation campaigns conducted from 1993 to 2009 at the archaeological site of "Colle i Mori", a place where a unique archaic inhabited area has been found.