The museum was built in 1950 and incorporated into the bastions and the arcaded wing of the S. Giuliano. Occupying the old ‘governor’s residence’, it displays architectural remains from the Roman towns of Abruzzo, with a collection of 13th Century paintings and sculptures, coins and gold as well as a modern art collection including works by Guttuso, Guidi, Tamburi and Brindisi. But the museum’s major attraction is the huge skeleton of a mammoth which dates back to the Quaternary era, and which was found in the vicinity of the town in 1954.
