Located in the heart of the ancient city, the “Ettore Pomarici Santomasi” Foundation was erected as a non-profit organization in 1920, three years after the death of Baron Pomarici Santomasi who donated his palace and the assets contained therein to his city to become a museum and library.

On the ground floor are the rooms for the family’s period clothes and majolica. Here it was also rebuilt in 1968, after the detachment from a local rock church, the Crypt of San Vito Vecchio, a great example of medieval rock art.

The first floor is arranged in seven rooms, with Neapolitan Baroque style furniture, mostly from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The second floor houses the museum itself, where you can admire an archaeological collection with important and precious collections of ceramics and bronze artifacts discovered in the excavations carried out on the Botromagno area dating from the seventh to the third century B. C. This collection includes more than 2000 precious finds of considerable historical importance as they offer the possibility of tracing the main phases of the human settlement process in the territory of Gravina, starting from the origins. The picture gallery has about 263 paintings. Among these, the “San Sebastiano” by Ludovico Carracci of 1599 emerges for its artistic and expressive value, in addition to the “Madonna and Child” and the “Dispute of Jesus among the Doctors”. Also noteworthy are the ovals depicting the “Allegories of the four Continents”, attributable to Saverio Persico.

Equally interesting is the collection of weapons and military memorabilia divided into three different homogeneous nuclei. The oldest and most important nucleus is made up of Bourbon weapons and uniforms dating back to between 1832 and 1850. The second section contains the Italian weapons and uniforms included in the chronological period between 1860 and the end of the century. The third section, on the other hand, refers to Italian and Austrian weapons and relics used in the First World War. Finally, in the museum there is a valuable numismatic section, with coins that date back to the Greek Great Period.

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