Noto rediscovers its origins: the Archaeological Museum reopens after 35 years

The Civic Archaeological Museum of Noto reopens to the public today after thirty-five years. Set up in the lower levels of the Monumental Complex of the Santissimo Salvatore - Former Benedictine Monastery, the museum winds its way through ten exhibition halls with hundreds of artifacts ranging from the Prehistoric to the Medieval Ages. The inauguration was held in the presence of Syracuse Superintendent Salvatore Martinez and the director of the Archaeological Park of Syracuse, Eloro, Villa del Tellaro and Akrai Carlo Staffile.

“After so much effort and the involvement of so many people and so many entities,” commented Mayor Corrado Bonfanti, “we reopen a museum that is a rediscovered expression of our roots. A museum that had begun its activities in 1965, only to close its doors for good in 1986. Thirty-five years have passed. I have the need and the desire to thank all the people who have been involved in this long collective work: the Superintendency, the Archaeological Park, professionals and many other intermediate structures that have made the journey less difficult, as well as the workers and the Firms that have contracted work and services. It was not easy, let’s be clear, because it took a very delicate approach to a history of millennia that only competent figures allowed us to reconstruct, with grafts also related to new technology that will make the visit to the museum more compelling.”

Noto thus rediscovers its origins, among artifacts and objects from dozens of excavation campaigns carried out between Monte Finocchitto and the Castelluccio Necropolis, with the Gymnasium epigraph recovered at Noto Antica and the remains of the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore from ancient Eloro, the Greek colony by the sea. A journey through the origins of Noto, enhanced by computer reconstructions.

Noto rediscovers its origins: the Archaeological Museum reopens after 35 years

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