The main museum of the city, Museo del Sannio, is divided into four sections: archeology, medieval, art and history. Located in different locations, all of great historical value.
It’s only a Museum of Contemporary Art according to its name, but in reality, this small museum in the basement of the Government Palace in central Corso Garibaldi offers a surprising exhibition inside.
An early medieval church that has been deconsecrated for three centuries, a building from the second century A.D. with even older evidence: this is the monumental complex of Sant'Ilario in Port'Aurea, because located in the immediate vicinity of Porta Aurea, as the Trajan's Arch was renamed in the Longobards era.
The underground floor of the cathedral, a mine of archeological informations about the life of the population of Benevento following one another from Prehistory to Middle Age.
In the ancient religious complex of San Felice, in the 17th-century Capuchin convent, transformed into a prison after the unification of Italy, the Archaeological Superintendency has now its seat.
Located right next to the Capuchin convent to which it is connected, there are exhibited numerous items of daily us, property of the Saint of Pietrelcina, who was elected priest in Benevento.
The National Archaeological Museum of Sannio Caudino has its seat in the Castle of Montesarchio, with the findings of funerary objects dating back to the 10th/9th century and the Roman era, found in the necropolis of Caudium, Saticula (Sant'Agata de 'Goti) and Telesia (San Salvatore Telesino).
A journey backwards in time. Until the Cretaceous, 110 million years ago, when on the slope of the Matese, where Pietraroja rises, the lagoon was expanded.