At 21 pm on Thursday 27 June 2019 the inauguration of the Archaeological Museum of Vieste, in the former convent of the Capuchin friars on the Vespucci seafront, adjacent to the Church of the Blessed Sacrament.
The exhibition is spread over 2 floors, with finds from prehistory to the late Roman age, retracing the history of the area from Defensola mine, to the settlements in the current inhabited center up to Roman farms of Santa Maria di Merino and Necropolis “La Salata”.
Numerous finds from the collection of Michele Petrone, to whom the museum is named, which formed the core of the former Civic Museum in Via Celestino V.
The Petrone collection, rich in funerary objects, is flanked by numerous finds from the "Tomb of the Elite” , recently discovered near the Palazzo Comunale.
The finds, recently restored and exhibited for the first time, represent a very important testimony of the Vieste of the II and III century BC
The exhibition is accompanied by an innovative information system that also makes use of technology, with multimedia totems, video projections and interactive 3D reconstructions.
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