Provincial Archaeological Museum San Benedetto-Salerno

     

    From Tuesday to Sunday 9.00-19.30
    Monday closed

     

    museo archeologico provinciale di Salerno

    The garden in front of the museum collects stone artifacts (statues, bas-reliefs, etc.) from Roman times. The ground floor collects important artifacts from the entire province and covers the period from prehistory to Roman times. The first floor is dedicated to artifacts from the Etruscan-Samnite site (6th century BC - 1st century AD) of Fratte (northern outskirts of the city). Also on the first floor is a room dedicated to the bronze head of Apollo (1st century BC - 1st century AD), a work so beautiful and important that it has become the symbol of the museum itself. To complete the offer for the tourist, some multimedia points have been installed that describe the settlement of Fratte and the ancient maritime routes of the Mediterranean. The building in which the museum is housed is part of a wing of the San Benedetto complex, built between the 7th and 9th centuries. The monastery has always been an important part of the city fabric and has hosted both the future Pope Victor III and the exiled Pope Gregory VII. Requisitioned after the Napoleonic laws, the building was dismembered, the central body became a military district, the church was reopened for worship and a peripheral wing houses the museum.