The Archaeological Museum of Calatia is housed in the Casino di Starza Penta, one of the most significant historical and monumental testimonies of Maddaloni and one of the main residences of the Carafa della Stadera who held Maddaloni in fief from 1465. The museum was inaugurated in 2003. The archaeological exhibition is on two floors and presents the finds from the necropolis of Calatia and the urban area in a chronological period between the end of the eighth century. to. C. and the late Roman age. The visit itinerary develops on a double track, the archaeological exhibition on one side and the historic building recovered in its volume and in its precious decorative apparatus, on the other. On the ground floor, in the rooms that were used for agricultural activities, there is the first section of the Museum dedicated to the territory, the city and the necropolis. The visit continues upstairs, in the ancient private and representative rooms and organized in "quarters", where the finds testify to the history of traffic, of the aristocracies between the sixth and fifth centuries. to. C., the life of women and men in the orientalizing age. The visit can also be carried out by blind people thanks to the presence of Braille paneling. It is also possible to visit the refined eighteenth-century chapel, a small building with a central plan with three marble altars and a barrel vault, decorated with white and gold stuccoes. The exhibition uses a modern multimedia language. In the section dedicated to traffic there is the virtual bookshop, where it is possible to 'browse' volumes that illustrate some of the main streets and offer some information on ancient itineraries, means of transport, post stations and construction techniques. The 'immersive' room follows the reconstruction of the stretch of the Appian Way from Calatia to Rome and projects the visitor on an ideal journey created through a space-time dimension. Didactic films run on LCD screens installed in the rooms, an interactive multi-touch table introduces the visitor itineraries. The printed media are all equipped with a QRcode; There are Braille panels, audio / video podcasts in Italian / English for a guided tour of the museum. For schools, virtual games on USB media. On the museum website, virtual tour to visit all the rooms of the Carafa Palace at 360 °. The Museum received a special mention from the jury of the ICOM Italia 2017 Prize for the new layout, the multimedia rooms, the didactic activity and the commitment.