The Provincial Archaeological Museum of Salerno was established in 1927 and set up since 1964 in the historical complex of San Benedetto. It contains a very rich documentation of the entire province of Salerno from prehistory to late antiquity. The itinerary starts from the Lapidary that occupies the open spaces in front of the entrance to the Museum and the adjoining viridarium, where statues, figurative reliefs and honorary bases are exhibited, mostly coming from Roman Salerno and coming to light since the seventeenth century; continue inside the lower floor, with an exhibition, chronological and topographical of the entire Salerno area, integrated with new sites and finds recovered in the deposits from old excavations and donations since 1928. The prehistoric section includes both Paleolithic and Neolithic materials from the caves of Polla, Pertosa, Palinuro, Molpa and Caprioli, and from the Eneolithic, from the area of Fratte, the oldest settlement in the municipality of Salerno. The Iron Age is documented by Villanovan finds (IX-VIII century BC), coming from Pontecagnano and Sala Consilina. The culture of burial such as that of Oliveto-Cairano in the Salerno area is testified by the sepulchral objects of the VIII-VI century BC, while the so-called "orientalizing", characterized by geometrically decorated ceramics, is testified by the finds of the Arenòsola at the mouth of the Select The exhibition of the Greek period follows, which documents the culture and exchanges between the Magna Graecia centers of the Tyrrhenian and Ionian. The typical male and female costumes from various sites in the Salerno area are enriched by a collection of necklaces and other amber jewelry, accompanied by ivory and glass paste, with vague shapes shaped like female or silenus heads, from the 5th and 4th centuries BC. C., like the numerous Samnite belts and the beautiful bronze helmets of various eras. The upper floor houses the materials coming from the city of Salerno, ideally reconnecting to the section of the Lapidary, from the take-off in the sixth century. BC of the ancient center of Fratte, a suburb NE of Salerno, in the V-VI centuries d. C., late antique phase of the Roman Salernum founded as a colony in 194 BC. Funerary objects from the marine belt are exhibited: oil lamps, vases and tombstones relating to a period that reaches up to the fourth century AD and a beautiful bronze head of Apollo, found in the waters of the Gulf of Salerno in 1930, which became the symbol of the Provincial Museums of Salerno. The exhibition is completed by a very rich numismatic collection.