Il Museo is housed, since July 1965, inside the Convento di Sant’Antonio built in the second half of the 13th century as a Franciscan convent, commissioned and completed by the Filangieri family. In 1989, the paintings decorating the ceiling of the room hosting the necropolis section were uncovered, called the “conspiracy room” because tradition holds that the cardinals gathered here to conspire against Urban VI in 1385. Most of the displayed documentation comes from excavations carried out by the Directorate of the Provincial Museums of Salerno since 1957, both in the urban center of ancient Nuceria (current Nocera Superiore) and in its necropolises, supplemented by private collections such as those of the Pisani and Bove families and local entities like the Municipality of Angri. The visit to the Provincial Archaeological Museum of Agro Nocerino does not follow a chronological path due to space constraints, so the artifacts adapt to the exhibition rooms, sometimes arranged, like the small Lapidary room, even along a short staircase. The route described in broad terms, focusing on some materials subject to in-depth studies, is therefore inevitably discontinuous in the dating of the finds. Starting with stone elements, among which a paleochristian sarcophagus at the entrance and anthropomorphic funerary steles in the small lapidary room stand out, the visitor reaches the small room with antiquities from Angri and Scafati; the Pisani Collection indicates the transition from the Sarno Valley Culture to the birth of Nuceria, whose life is then illustrated by the testimonies of findings in the urban area and the necropolises, which occupy the most substantial part of the exhibition.
Information about the Provincial Archaeological Museum of Agro Nocerino
Convento di Sant’Antonio – piazza S. Antonio snc,
84014 Nocera Inferiore (Salerno)
086265985
museipriovincialisalerno@virgilio.it
https://musei biblioteche.provincia.salerno.it
Source: MIBACT
