Provincial Archaeological Museum

It was founded in 1927 and located from 1964 in the multistratified historical complex of Saint Benedict. It preserves a very rich documentation of the whole province of Salerno from the pre-history to the late ancient period.
While in the epigraphic museum (a garden) statues, figurative reliefs, and honorary bases come for the most part from Roman Salerno, inside on the ground floor there are illustrations of the main cultural currents that characterised Campania and in particular the Salerno area ever since the first Iron Age (9th century b.C.), always giving this area the connotation of a crossroads of people and a melting pot of different ethnic groups.
The outfit of the princely tomb of Roscigno, between Paestum valley and Vallo di Diano is outstanding. It dates back to the end of the 5th and 4th century b.C. from different parts of the Salerno area.
A tomb from Oliveto Citra, which is contemporary to that of Roscigno is of remarkable interest.
In 1929 the excavations of this tomb were completely re-constucted with the exhibition of the skeleton of the deceased young man. On the first floor there is the documentation from Salerno, from the pre-Roman centre of Fratte, a suburb in the north-east of the city, that was founded in the 6th century b.C., concerning the Roman colony, founded in the beginning of the 2nd century b.C., up to the Longobard period thanks to the discovery of some objects of this time, which represented a period of great splendour for Salerno. During the phase of the rearrangement of the rich deposits of the Museum there was the discovery of these findings as well as of numerous oil-lamps made in an active studio in the city between the 1st and 2nd century a.C. and restored to Roman Salerno.

Address: Complesso di S. Benedetto - Via S. Benedetto
Telephone: +39 089 231135.

Equipments of the laboratory

Roman statue reproducing the restoration  Venere Cnidia di Prassitele