Antiquarium di Boscoreale, Archaeological museum near Pompeii, Italy
Antiquarium di Boscoreale is an archaeological museum near Pompeii that displays Roman objects, tools, and equipment discovered in ancient villas and nearby sites. The exhibition focuses on finds from the Pompeii area, showing what daily life looked like in this region.
The collection comes from Roman villas buried by the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD and later excavated from the ground. The museum itself opened in 1991 to make these important discoveries available to the public.
The collection displays everyday objects such as farming tools, fishing hooks, seeds and fruits, wine vessels, and plaster casts of animals. These items let visitors see how people actually lived and worked in ancient times.
The museum is next to Villa Regina, the only Roman villa in the area fully excavated and rebuilt, a modest farm villa for wine production. Its route runs along a corridor with illustrations of the wood and the marsh formed by the Sarno river, then through two rooms: the first on flora, fauna, cosmetics, breeding, agriculture and medicine, the second on finds from the villas of Boscoreale.
In the second room stands a scale model of Villa della Pisanella showing its wine cellar with 84 dolia sunk into the floor. The same room holds a lava-stone press and bronze seals from that villa, alongside a marble herm and ceramic cup from Villa Regina.
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