MuSA – Museo Storico-Archeologico dell’Università del Salento
University museum in Lecce in the Studium 2000 complex: five rooms on the archaeology of Salento, the Messapians, the Roman age and missions in the Mediterranean.
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About the museum
The Museo Storico-Archeologico dell’Università del Salento (MuSA) was inaugurated in 2007 on the ground floor of the Studium 2000 complex, in Via di Valesio in Lecce. It was founded to strengthen the facilities and services for teaching and research in the historical-archaeological field of the university, and to document and promote the results of the university's archaeologists and ancient historians, most of whom belong to the Department of Cultural Heritage.
The route occupies about 500 square metres in five rooms. The first presents the stages of growth of the university's historical-archaeological field; rooms two to four illustrate, through representative cases, prehistory and protohistory, the Messapians, and the Roman, Late Antique and medieval periods; the last is devoted to excavations, surveys and studies carried out in various areas of the Mediterranean, from Italy to Turkey, Ukraine, Syria, Egypt, Sudan and Malta.
The display features over 300 finds from excavations in the Salento territory and makes extensive use of relief models, casts, models and 2D and 3D reconstructions. The museum has a multimedia display system for consulting digital content, and PC workstations for accessing the MuSA portal.
Highlights
- More than 300 finds from excavations in Salento
- Room on the Messapians
- Reconstructions, models, casts and 3D models
- Multimedia display system
- Room on the archaeological missions in the Mediterranean
Permanent exhibition
- Percorso storico-archeologico del MuSA – Five rooms: the development of the university's archaeological research, prehistory and protohistory, the Messapians, the Roman age, Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and excavations in the Mediterranean.
- Founded
- 2007
- Operated by
- Università del Salento
- Visitors per year
- approx. 3,361
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Getting there & parking
The museum is on the ground floor of the Studium 2000 complex, in Via di Valesio in Lecce.
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Plan your visit
| Guided tours | yes |
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| School programs | yes |
| Good to know | Visits without a guide are possible during opening hours; booking is compulsory for groups and school classes. Guided visits are charged and always require booking, to be made at least one week in advance by writing to infomusa@unisalento.it (which also applies to the educational workshops). The museum also organises seminars, lectures and temporary exhibitions, open to everyone. |
