The Civic Museum (Ugento)

Type:

Luoghi della cultura; Ente/Istituzione

Category:

Archaeology museums

The Museum of Ugento was established on 13th August 1966 as a deliberative act of the City Council, to accommodate the numerous findings deriving from the city of Ugento and its vast territory. It was established by decree of the then President of the Republic Mr. Giuseppe Saragat, on petition from Mayor Francis Corvaglia and inaugurated in October 1968 under the name: the Civic Museum of Archaeology and Paleontology. Since its founding, the museum has been housed in the halls of the former convent of the Friars Minor, leaning against the church of St. Anthony, in the center of Ugento. In 2009, after a conservative restoration of the monument, it was inaugurated as the New Archaeological Museum, rearrangements of the exhibits in the museum were also made, to which material from other sites of Salento were added.