Il Museo is located in Terni within the Centro Arti Opificio Siri (C.A.O.S.) which also houses the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art “Aurelio de Felice”, an experimental theater, a café, a bookshop, and educational workshops. The museum is set up in the ground floor spaces of the former Siri factory.
The location of the museum represents an excellent example of reuse of a disused industrial area. Through the exhibited artifacts, the 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.
In particular, regarding the archaeological museum, the path inaugurated in 2004, unfolds 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 sequence, hosts in the first rooms the protohistoric artifacts (10th century BC) from caves in the Marmore area and from the large necropolis of the Steelworks, discovered at the end of the 19th century. Used from the late Bronze Age (10th century BC) until the early Iron Age (8th century BC), it returned numerous accompanying objects 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 in 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 (now Library), then moved to the cloister of the San Francesco convent where they remained until after World War II, 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 until late antiquity, testified by inscriptions, representative sculpture, and funerary monuments.
Information on Archaeological Museum – CAOS (Centro Arti Opificio Siri)
Via Campofregoso- Area Ex Siri,
05100 Terni (Terni)
07444221801
info@kairos.tr.it
https://www.comune.tr.it
Source: MIBACT
