Text and Photo by Prof. Lucio Leone

Curatorial Management: Dr. Robert Spadea, Director of Archaeology of the Superintendency of Calabria,
Location: Via Garibaldi, Nicastro, Tel: 0968-26642
Entry Ticket: 1€

Inaugurated on July 28, 1997, the museum is the result of a twenty-year commitment by the Lamezian Archaeological Association. In the 1990s the Association was able to count on the resources of the Archaeological Superintendency of Calabria and the Communal Administration of Lamezia Terme, both of which desired to create a museum to conserve and display material rediscovered in the Lamezian territory. The museum, which takes up the first floor of a building in the historic center of town, is subdivided into three sections: Prehistory, Classical Age, and Medieval.

Immediately upon entering the museum’s courtyard, one can admire the “Mensa Ponderaria” (an array of weights and measures for public trade, made in 1200) described by Lenormant in 1884, which used to be set up in the old market of Nicastro.

Mensa Ponderaria (weights and measures) Lamezian Archaeological Museum Photo Leone private collection

In the Prehistory section, dedicated to the Nicastrese scholar Dario Leone, articles are displayed from the Calabrese Paleolithic period (consisting of tools from the Casella of Maida, (700,000 – 500,000 years ago) and from the Lamezian Neolithic period (Casella of Maida, Acconia, Palazzo).

Floor Plan of the Lamezian Archaeological Museum

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