The current asset configuration of the Museum is the result of numerous acquisitions, which have followed one another from the inauguration in 1962 up to the most recent ones from the Museum of Origins (2004) and the L. Pigorini Prehistoric Ethnographic Museum (2005).
The museum heritage essentially consists of two main collections of materials:
The Gorga Collection, with ceramics from the Etruscan and Italic area, dated between the archaic and late Hellenistic age, and bronze materials of great significance in the Etruscan-Italic and Roman contexts.
The Rellini Collection, with materials from the Faliscan, Capenate, and Adriatic slope areas.
In April 2004, of great importance was the transfer from the Museum of Origins of the entire complex of historical age materials found in the excavations of the so-called Faliscan caves, conducted between the late 1800s and the first three decades of 1900 by Angelo Pasqui, Raniero Mengarelli, and Ugo Rellini in the territories of Corchiano Falerii.
Very recent, finally, (October 2005) the acquisition of a group of 63 artifacts (architectural and votive terracottas, ceramics, and metalware), once again extracted from the vast Gorga collection, deposited at the L. Pigorini Prehistoric Ethnographic Museum in Rome, further enriching the museum’s exhibition panorama.
