Archaeological Civic Museum "F. Savini"

The 'F. Savini' Civic Archaeological Museum is located in Via Melchiorre Delfico, in a building, unfit for use due to the calamitous events of 2016, that is rich in history. In the block where it is located, already inhabited since the 13th century, work began in 1613 on the construction of a church dedicated to St. Charles to which, shortly afterwards, a convent was added. In 1742, the convent was converted into an orphanage, which was later restored and extended (between 1833 and 1842). In 1878, the orphanage was moved and the building became the seat of the city court. It was in this context that Gennaro della Monica created the fresco, depicting 'Brutus condemning his sons', in the hall used for hearings, the current 'S. Carlo' auditorium. With the new construction and the subsequent relocation of the city court building, the building was restored and transformed into the Museo Civico, with the ground floor inaugurated in 1997 and the first floor in 2001.

The museum is named after Francesco Savini (1846-1940), a historian, archaeologist and bibliographer from Teramo who dedicated his entire life to historical research on the city and its territory, making a notable contribution with archaeological discoveries relating to the Roman and Medieval eras.

The museum space is structured in two sections. On the ground floor there is an itinerary dedicated to the history of the city: from the findings from the Protohistoric period, to the development of Interamnia Praetut(t)iorum in the Roman period - with its public and private buildings and its extra-urban necropolises - to the Medieval period, as witnessed by the discovery of the Basilica of Sancta Mariae Aprutiense.

On the first floor is the museum itinerary dedicated to the history of the Ager Praetut(t)ianus, the part of the territory inhabited by the Italic people of the Pretuzi, which in the Roman period constituted the territory administered by the municipality of Interamnia. The museum layout of the materials, which reconstruct the circulation of money, administrative organisation, trade, the ancient road system, religious sites and sanctuaries, and the production system centred on rustic villas, offers a narrative of the evolution of the territory from prehistory to Romanisation. The medieval and renaissance section, with reference to late antiquity and 15th-16th century ceramic production, concludes the narrative on the history of the territory.

The second floor is reserved for didactics and presents a life-size reproduction of an Iron Age dwelling (10th - 8th - 7th centuries B.C.) equipped with ceramic vessels and a loom, reconstructed on the basis of archaeological material found in Teramo.