Museum Collection of Villamaina
 

The Municipal Museum Collection of Villamaina is a site of historical and archaeological interest, located in the current town hall of Via Roma.

 

As early as the 17th century, many local writers referred both to the presence of some areas of particular archaeological interest, including Formulano and Cisterne, and to a whole series of ancient materials, transported from their places of origin to Villamaina. Known for its proximity to the Ansanto Valley and for the ancient Baths of San Teodoro still in operation, the current territory of Villamaine has preserved, with the passage of time, countless testimonies that have their roots in the prehistoric era, retracing, in chronological phase, first the Samnite period and, later, the Roman age, to include remains of more recent dating. The museum collection today consists of 933 objects, divided by georeferenced criteria.

 

Among the testimonies that have come up to the present day that have benefited from a better state of conservation, are a decorative architectural element of a public structure, probably a templum, in the shape of a wolf protome and a head of votive statuette.

 

The exhibition also includes a large number of bricks with molded bubble and referable, mostly, to factories of the Roman age. Particularly significant, finally, is the Roman lapidary with epigraphic corpus, useful for the reconstruction of the historical events of Villamaina. A witness of an ancient past, the Museum Collection of the Municipality of Villamaina represents a further trace of the presence of settlements in Irpinia, already for thousands of years.