Museo civico archeologico di Canosa di Puglia

About the museum

The civic museum of Canosa di Puglia was founded in 1934 and housed in the Palazzo Casieri, a 19th-century building. Since 2007 the collections have been moved to Palazzo Iliceto, an imposing 18th-century structure in the centre of the town. The museum holds around two thousand finds from excavations in the town and from tombs dating between the 5th and 3rd centuries BC.

The route unfolds over seven rooms and covers a period from prehistory to the Byzantine-medieval age: red-figure pottery and amphorae, flasks and urns, Jewish, Roman and Christian oil lamps, the coins of Canusium, polychrome askoi and lekanoi, jars and medieval and Neolithic fragments. There is also an important collection of Canosan pottery, the inscriptions of the museum's epigraphic collection, Roman portraits and architectural fragments, as well as the exhibition “Tu in Daunios” on finds from the Daunian and Hellenistic periods.

The famous jewellery from the Tomba degli Ori is now largely kept elsewhere, including in Taranto and the Louvre. The museum is run by the Fondazione archeologica canosina.

Highlights

• Red-figure pottery and Canosan amphorae
• Polychrome askoi and lekanoi
• Coins of Canusium
• Inscriptions and Roman portraits
• “Tu in Daunios” exhibition on Daunian and Hellenistic finds

Founded

1934

Operated by

Fondazione archeologica canosina

Visitors per year

approx. 2,000

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