The classical section offers the visitor a chance to admire objects recovered near the village of Sant’ Eufemia Vetere, and ascribable to the settlement of Terina in the second half of the 4th century B.C. The city, an active commercial center and seat of an important mint, had been founded by Crotone around 500 B.C. and was destroyed by Hannibal, “since he could not defend it when he retired into the land of the Bruzi” (source: Strabo). From among the Terinese finds in the display case, the so called Hydra of Cerzeto (380-370 B.C.) catches the eye, a great vessel with red figures depicting a scene in women’s quarters.

Golden diadem (coll. British Museum)

Gold scarab-shaped finger ring (coll. British Museum)

The medieval section brings together the fruits of excavations carried out in the 1990s at the Castle of Nicastro, a fortress of Norman origin heavily damaged by the earthquake of 1638. Upon display are various types of objects ranging from the 8th to 17th centuries.

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