The Museum of the Palazzo della Dogana dei Grani was built on a project by Eng. Carmine Biancardi from the construction company of Gaetano Romano in 1883, the Customs carried out its main activity during the reign of the Bourbons mainly for the marketing of cereals from Puglia, but also as the seat of the weekly market and annual fairs. From the 1950s onwards, the building's spaces were used in a somewhat disparate way: from cinema to bus depot, and finally to school. The structural adjustments due to use changed the original architectural structure. Since 1993 the Dogana dei Grani, on loan for use to the current BSAE Superintendency, is a container museum used to preserve the historical artistic artefacts recovered in the area following the 1980 earthquake in the protection action aimed at avoiding dispersion, the theft or decay of works of art. The museum temporarily houses these artifacts which over time are returned to the communities to which they belong. The museum's exhibition function is expressed in hosting exhibitions curated by the Superintendency, proposed by other institutions or by private individuals, which, when examined by the Management Committee, a body that guarantees the cultural value of the event, have the character of temporary nature.