Il Museo del Vallo di Diano (The Vallo di Diano Museum)
Home to an important burial exhibition, the MASC - Museo Archeologico Sala Consilina reconstructs the habits, clothing, rituals, social relations and expansion of a settlement of the Villanovan culture, i.e. the oldest phase of Etruscan civilisation.
Once an obligatory stop on the way to the far south of Italy, this area, later nicknamed Vallo di Diano, was conquered by the Romans, who laid out the Via Popilia-Annia in 128 BC.
History of the Museum
Inaugurated in 1982, in the setting of the sixteenth-century Convent of the Capuchin Fathers of Sala Consilina, the archaeological museum, then called "Antiquarium", was transferred in the mid-90s to the Grancia Certosina di San Lorenzo in the historic centre of Sala, so as to allow the restoration and updating of the original site.
In September 2018, the museum returned to being hosted at the Capuchin Convent, with a new name MASC - Archaeological Museum of Sala Consilina and with the preparation of a new exhibition itinerary.
Heritage
The exhibition collects archaeological finds found in the territory's necropolis, in particular in two areas of Sala Consilina, San Rocco and Sant'Antonio, refarding the period ranging from the ninth and fourth centuries BC.
The MASC heritage counts over 1,000 sepulchral items, starting from those of the cremation type dating back to the Iron Age (9th century BC) up to those of the Lucanian age (4th century BC), rich in locally produced and imported ceramics.
