Museo Provinciale Sannitico MIBAC Campobasso

The Museum was founded in 1881 and was housed, together with the Provincial Library, in the Palazzo della Prefettura. The material was first catalogued by the archaeologist Antonio Sogliano, who published the inventory in 1889. Since then, the Museum and the Library have experienced alternating fortunes and many changes of location until 1995, when the Museum was set up in the premises of the eighteenth-century Palazzo Mazzarotta, in the historic centre of Campobasso. The collections include both the original nineteenth-century provincial collection and finds from modern archaeological excavations in the Province of Campobasso. The permanent exhibition is organised according to chronological and thematic criteria. The exhibits range from late prehistory to the Middle Ages. The exhibition spaces contain a great deal of archaeological material from private collections, donated to the Campobasso community in the second half of the 19th century, as well as from modern archaeological excavations.