National Archaeological Museum of Volcei

The National Archaeological Museum of Volcei is dedicated to the memory of Marcello Gigante, an illustrious citizen of Buccino, a refined and sensitive philologist, Hellenist and papyrologist, founder, among other things, of the "Centre for the study of Herculaneum papyri", who always hoped for the establishment of the Museum itself. The building that houses it is a fifteenth-century building considered by many scholars the oldest Augustinian monastic foundation of Salerno, of which there is news as early as the fourteenth century. The museum is housed precisely in the 'former fifteenth-century convent of the hermits. In 1473 the Master Natale da Ragusa, designed and built the cloister and the part of the convent arranged around it "in honor of God, the Blessed Virgin Mary and Blessed Anthony and Augustine. The Museum exhibits the finds discovered in the area of Buccino, among which the female funerary outfit of the Tomba degli Ori, a chamber tomb of the IV century B.C. and the mosaic of the Sala del Banchetto of which the environment has been reconstructed with the walls decorated in polychrome stucco. The exhibition is structured in such a way as to retrace the local history and its development, as well as to highlight the economic and commercial role that the site had in Roman times, through interactive multimedia support, with films and virtual reconstructions. The evocative structure houses the finds on a completely restored surface of about 1600 square metres distributed on four levels through which the exhibition route winds its way.