Museo storico-archeologico

The Museum is located inside the Bourbon castle, seat of the Town Council; it contains an entrance and six rooms where finds from the island’s archaeological complexes as well as from the nearby sea beds of Ventotene and Santo Stefano have been placed and opportunely appreciated. The museum itinerary, with a mainly educational character, is organised in such a way as to illustrate the main historical events that concerned the area over the centuries, also through the help of exhibition panels. A large model of the island during the Augustan age is exhibited in the entrance hall. The first of the three rooms houses underwater finds; amphorae from different ages and typologies, three anchor stocks, a large dolium, and stamped lead ingots; in the second there are finds coming from the shipwrecks of Cala Rossano and Le Grottelle. In the third room, there are the amphorae and mortaria recovered from two of the nine shipwrecks discovered during deep water surveys that started in summer 2008. The fourth and fifth rooms are entirely dedicated to the description of the villa of Punta Eolo. The sixth room contains reconstructive models of Roman tanks, the thermal baths of Villa Giulia, the marble relief of the Bourbon coat of arms, and a sarcophagus of the 2nd century A.D.