Museo archeologico statale di arcevia

The museum, housed in the former Convent of San Francesco, consists of five rooms that can accommodate materials from the territory of Arcevia in a chronological arrangement. In the hall we find the remains, attributable to the Palaeolithic period, coming from the workshop of lithic Stone Bridge and several light panels that reproduce the environment in which these human groups lived. Recently a part of this large room is devoted to classroom where classes visiting the museum can play different laboratories that complete exposure curriculum. The hall B, however, receives material from the neolithic ditch Conelle, dug in the 60s by Salvatore Puglisi. C in the room are the settlement of layered materials Cava Giacometti (covering a period from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age) and those related to the village deep sea of ​​Monte Croce Guardia age of the Late Bronze Age. In the corridor which gives access to the latest facilities they have found their place the exhibits / votive of Montefortino sanctuary, a place of worship from the long continuity of life: age picena Celtic phase, up to the Roman conquest. The last two rooms are dedicated to hosting some grave goods from the famous Celtic necropolis of Montefortino. Identified already in 1892, the necropolis was dug between 1894 and 1899 by Edward Brizio who discovered 47 tombs for burial. The equipment exhibited in the Museum relate to tombs of warriors buried with their weapons and rich female graves.

OPENING TIME Mon, Wed, Fri from 13.30 to 19.30 h Tues, Fri, Sat, Sun - 8.30 to 13.30 h closed the second Sunday of the month Free admission every first Sunday of the month

TICKETS full € 1 reduced € 0.50 (aged 18 to 25 years) free (for children under 18)