Giuseppe Fiorelli Civic Museum, archaeological museum in Lucera, Italy

The Giuseppe Fiorelli Civic Museum is housed in the 18th-century Palazzo de Nicastri-Cavalli in central Lucera, entered from the palace courtyard. Its roughly twenty rooms on two levels display prehistoric flint and bronze tools, Daunian and black-glazed pottery, Roman marble inscriptions and a votive deposit of about 1,500 terracottas, then medieval finds, alongside period rooms such as the Cavalli salon and kitchen.

A public antiquities collection existed in Palazzo Mozzagrugno from the 1870s. In 1900 Girolamo Prignano obtained ground-floor rooms for a civic antiquarium, and the Museo Civico opened on 9 January 1905. In 1925 Giuseppe Cavalli bequeathed a wing of Palazzo de Nicastri-Cavalli; the museum moved there between 1934 and 1936 and was named after Lucera-born archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli (1823–1896).

The museum is named after Giuseppe Fiorelli, the Lucera-born archaeologist (1823-1896) who directed excavations at Pompeii. Its name was given in 1936, when the collection moved into an wing of the de Nicastri palace donated by mayor Giuseppe Cavalli in memory of his brother Eduardo. The visit also passes through period rooms: the Cavalli drawing room, the kitchen, the Figliola room and the chapel.

The museum is located on Via Famiglia de' Nicastri in the town center and is easily reached on foot near other city attractions. The rooms are bright and clearly organized, allowing visitors to navigate comfortably and spend time with each display section at their own pace.

The bronze group known as the Lucera cart was found in a vineyard on the slopes of Colle Albano in 1800: human and animal figures on a disc with three ibex-headed supports, each ending in four-spoked wheels, dated to the 8th century BC. It probably belonged to a tomb assemblage and passed through Onofrio Bonghi's private collection to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford; the museum displays copies.