Museo sannitico di Campobasso

The Museum was founded in 1881 and is housed, together with the Provincial Library, in the Prefecture Palace. An initial cataloging of the material was carried out by the archaeologist Antonio Sogliano who published the Inventory in 1889. Since then, the Museum and the Library have experienced alternating fortunes and multiple changes of location until 1995, when the Museum was set up in the premises of Palazzo Mazzarotta. The Palace, dating back to the 16th century, was initially owned by a religious order or brotherhood and became the residence of a wealthy family in the 1700s. Its history is reflected in the layout of the rooms which reveals a disorganized succession of construction interventions, highlighting the loggia and the portal of clear 19th-century definition.

Inside, the museum exhibition is divided into five sections (organized according to chronological and thematic criteria); the original 19th-century collection, the provincial one, including about 500 pieces from various origins, is included in the path of the five sections: