The Museum has been housed since July 1965 inside the Convent of Sant’Antonio, which was established in the second half of the 13th century as a Franciscan convent, initiated and completed by the Filangieri family. In 1989, the paintings decorating the vault of the room hosting the necropolis section were restored, known as the “hall of the conspiracy” because tradition holds that cardinals gathered here to conspire against Urban VI in 1385. Most of the exhibited documentation comes from excavations conducted by the Directorate of Provincial Museums of Salerno from 1957 onwards, both in the urban center of ancient Nuceria (current Nocera Superiore) and its necropolises, supplemented by private collections such as those of the Pisani and Bove families, and those of local entities like the Municipality of Angri. Due to space constraints, the visit to the Provincial Archaeological Museum of Agro Nocerino does not follow a chronological route; thus, the artifacts adapt to the exhibition rooms, sometimes arranged, as in the small Lapidary room, even along a short staircase. The route described in broad terms, focusing on some materials deeply studied, is inevitably discontinuous in the dating of finds. Starting from stone elements, among which a notable paleochristian sarcophagus at the entrance and anthropomorphic funerary steles in the small lapidary room stand out, one arrives in the small room with antiquities from Angri and Scafati; the Pisani Collection marks the transition from the Sarno Valley Culture to the birth of Nuceria, whose life is then illustrated by evidence from discoveries in the urban area and necropolises, which occupy the most substantial part of the exhibition.
Information about the Provincial Archaeological Museum of the Agro Nocerino
Convent of Sant’Antonio – piazza S. Antonio snc,
84014 Nocera Inferiore (Salerno)
086265985
museipriovincialisalerno@virgilio.it
https://museibiblioteche.provincia.salerno.it
Source: MIBACT
