The Civic Museum

Type:

Luoghi della cultura; Ente/Istituzione

Category:

Archaeology museums

The City of Canosa di Puglia, with a ‘podesta’ resolution no.280 from November 25th, 1933 provided the creation of a Civic Museum whose management is directly delegated to the Local Council. And thus, on December 28th, 1933 the Civic Museum was born, located at first in the Nineteenth Century Casieri Building, Via Terenzio Marrone 45. The classic architectural structure saw the distribution in seven rooms, of extraordinary artefacts dating from the VI-V century a. C. and IX-X century A.D. In May 2007, the Museum was relocated, due to restructuring, near the Iliceto building, located on Via Trieste e Trento 20. The new museum features an entrance with stairs allowing access, through a gallery, in the place used as an exhibition space. Inside, the Museum houses a vast repertoire of archaeological finds which include Daunian pottery, bronzes, inscriptions, artefacts made of limestone and marble dating from the Augustan age until the third century AD. The exhibition starts on the first floor with the Dauna section "Tu in Daunios" and runs from the first to the seventh hall. It then proceeds to the ground floor with a section devoted to the inscriptions.