The Museum is located in Terni within the Centro Arti Opificio Siri (C.A.O.S.), which also houses the “Aurelio de Felice” Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, an experimental theater, a cafeteria, a bookshop, and educational workshops. The museum is set up in the ground floor spaces of the former Siri establishment.
The location of the museum represents an excellent example of reuse of a disused industrial area. Through the exhibited artifacts, aspects of life and the evolution of Interamna – Terni are illustrated, the city between two rivers inhabited by the Nahartes, the Umbrian people who occupied since prehistoric times the basin between the Nera (Nahr) and Serra rivers.
Specifically, concerning the archaeological museum, the path inaugurated in 2004 winds through seventeen rooms organized into two sections, one dedicated to pre-Roman history, the other to Roman history.
The pre-Roman section, arranged in strict chronological order, hosts in the first rooms the protohistoric artifacts (10th century BC) coming from caves in the Marmore area and from the large necropolis of the Acciaierie, discovered at the end of the 19th century. In use from the late Bronze Age (10th century BC) to the early Iron Age (8th century BC), it yielded numerous grave goods that testify to the progressive monumentalization of burial rituals, a sign of the changed social organization of the Naharci population. The central rooms display Orientalizing tombs (7th century BC) reconstructed to their original dimensions, part of the necropolises found in the city. At the end of the section, the eighth room is entirely dedicated to the excavation of Monte Torre Maggiore, a place of worship frequented from the 6th century BC until the late imperial age.
The core of the Roman section derives from the transfer, at the end of the 19th century, of the Sconocchia collection to the large rooms on the ground floor of the Town Hall building (now Library), then moved to the cloister of the San Francesco convent where they remained until the post-war period, when the entire collection was housed in the Carrara palace. Displayed in the remaining nine rooms, the materials are grouped according to a thematic criterion based on individual aspects of daily life and social organization of Interamna Nahars, from the Roman conquest of the 3rd century BC to the late antique period, evidenced by inscriptions, representative sculpture, and funerary monuments.
Information about the Archaeological Museum – CAOS (Centro Arti Opificio Siri)
Via Campofregoso- Ex Siri Area,
05100 Terni (Terni)
07444221801
info@kairos.tr.it
https://www.comune.tr.it
Source: MIBACT
