Man and Environment in the Vesuvian Territory
It is the ideal ending of the visit to the adjacent Villa Regina, the only one of the rustic villas in Boscoreale to be open to the public.
Right nearby, on an adjacent land donated to the cause by the Municipality of Boscoreale, is the Antiquarium in which findings from the many other villas in the archaeological area that have been buried again after being discovered, are collected and exhibited. A collection entitled Man and the Environment in the Vesuvian territory, considered very precious given the enormous quantity and variety of ancient objects looted in Boscoreale to be dispersed in European and American museums. Of the enormous heritage preserved for centuries by the Vesuvian ashes, the Antiquarium offers above all evidence related to the daily life of the owners of the villas and the workers who took care of the land. Visitors are offered a faithful and accurate insight of the life in the countryside in ancient Rome, where tools that are still current were used.
The exhibition area is arranged on two levels. On the first floor, in the first room, the territory is described and agricultural, breeding, hunting and fishing activities in Roman times are illustrated with appropriate contextualizations. There is also no lack of information on artisanal productions, religion, medicine and cosmetics. All accompanied by findings from Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis, Stabia and Terzigno as well as from Boscoreale. In the second room, then, the human presence in the prehistoric and protohistoric period is told through findsing from the villas of Boscoreale, now again underground.
Upstairs, there is an exhibition on the protohistoric village of Longola.
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